Alexandra Dellios

Alexandra Dellios is a historian and senior lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her research considers the public and oral history of migrant and refugee communities, and their experiences of settlement, work, and family life. She has published on: child migration; popular representations of multiculturalism; immigration centres and hostels; the intersections of migrant, industrial and labour heritage; public history practices, and cultural heritage management in Australia. She is the author of Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press: 2022) and Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (Melbourne University Publishing: 2017), co-author (with Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon) of Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (Berghahn: 2024), and co-editor (with Eureka Henrich) of Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders (Routledge: 2020).