MxKavita Peterson
Graduate Researcher
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Graduate ResearcherFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
Kavita is a multilingual, NAATI-accredited translator and decolonial museum consultant of Fiji-Indian/white-Australian descent with a special passion for decolonial and queering approaches to museum interpretation and heritage. They are a strong supporter of decoloniality, anti-racism, intersectional feminism, and change through education and creative critical pedagogy.
Hailing from Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, they have until recently been residing in Berlin conducting research on the representation and interpretation of German colonialism in German national history museums. They are currently engaged in the ARC research project 'The Great Exhibitions and their Lost Indigenous Objects'.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Graduate ResearcherDeakin University, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
DEGREES
- Master of Interpreting and Translation StudiesMonash University, Australia1 Mar 2008 - 30 Sep 2009
- Master of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies (Professional)Deakin University, Australia1 Mar 2022 - 31 Jul 2023
LANGUAGES
- EnglishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- JapaneseCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Chinese (Mandarin)Can read, write and understand
- IndonesianCan read, write and understand
- Spanish - Latin AmericanCan read, write and understand
- GermanCan read
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Pacific Peoples curatorial, archives and museum studies
- Critical heritage, museum and archive studies
- History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Arts and Education
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences