Alexandra Dellios

Dr Alexandra Dellios is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University (ANU), part of the Research School of Humanities & the Arts. Her work focuses on migrant and refugee histories, memory studies, and public history practices. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a BA (Honours) from the University of Queensland.

• Affiliations: Chair of the Editorial Board for Studies in Oral History, founding member of the Australian Migration History Network, and Executive Committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.
• Research Interests: Migration and refugee histories, multiculturalism, oral history, industrial heritage, cultural heritage management, and migrant rights movements.
• Projects: Leads initiatives like Grandparenting in Australia: a history (1945-2025) and Architecture and Industry: The migrant contribution to nation-building.

Her research explores migrant settlement experiences, family life, and the intersections of migrant, industrial, and labour heritage. Key publications include Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (2022) and Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (2017). She collaborates with communities on oral history projects and heritage interpretation efforts.

Recent articles analyze migrant rights activism, postwar immigrant policies, and transnational family migration patterns. Her work bridges academic research with public engagement, emphasizing collaborative storytelling and contested heritage narratives.