Skills and expertise of PHA Qld members

PHA Qld members possess skills and expertise across a wide range of historical or heritage subjects and areas of interest or speciality. Use the directory below to find suitable members.

About
Dr Judith McKay is a museum curator, historian and heritage consultant with wide experience in museums, exhibitions, research and writing.
Judith Nissen
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Judith is a freelance historian with more than two decades' experience. In addition to published works, commissions for a range of private and corporate clients have included research for permanent and temporary museum exhibitions, histories of buildings and organisations, archives reports, heritage significance assessments and citations, and genealogical research. From 2008 to 2018 Judith has been the Australian Dictionary of Biography Research Assistant for Queensland.
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Lee has experience in researching and writing digital histories, having worked on the Find & Connect web resource as the Queensland based historian and as a research assistant on the Australian Women’s Archives Project. She is currently involved with the Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University in developing a website that will serve as a portal of research publications, commentaries and interactive resources focusing on Australian history up to 1859 in the territory that formally constituted the northern part of NSW during that period.
Skills and expertise of PHAQ member
Margaret Cook
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Margaret Cook is a freelance historian who specialises in non-Indigenous cultural heritage and social and environmental history.
Mary Howells
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Mary is an historian with extensive experience in local history, local heritage surveys, non-indigenous cultural heritage research, and interpretive writing for historical tourism materials.
Melanie Tasker
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My interests lie primarily with social history - the grass roots history of the minutiae of everyday life contextualised within wider international, national and local social, cultural, medical and political paradigms. History is far more than the dates and names of victors (and losers) caught up in major world events; it is the often disparate stories of regular men, women and children. Most importantly, history is best celebrated, respected and accessible to all when it’s served with a collaborative dose of fun.
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Murray Johnson has published widely in many areas of Australian history, specialising in local history, Aboriginal history, company history and Native Title