- Lecturer in History, University of Sydney
Dr Niro Kandasamy is a Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney. She completed her PhD in 2019 as part of Professor Joy Damousi's ARC Laureate Fellowship project, "Child Refugees in Australia and Internationalism: 1920 to the Present". Before joining the University of Sydney in 2022, she was teaching in Melbourne and held senior research roles in non-government organisations. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford, York University, and was a US Fulbright fellow in 2024/2025. She has been interviewed on the BBC, ABC, SBS, and numerous other media.
Experience
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2022–presentLecturer, University of Sydney
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2020–2021Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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2017–2019Tutor, University of Melbourne
Education
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2019University of Melbourne, PhD
Research Areas
- Government And Politics Of Asia And The Pacific (160606)
- Migration (160303)
- Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) (210303)
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