Amanda Harris

Amanda Harris is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. She serves as Deputy Associate Dean (Research) and Director of the Sydney Unit of PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures). Her work focuses on cross-cultural music histories, Australian colonial narratives, and Indigenous cultural heritage preservation.

• Roles: Director of PARADISEC Sydney Unit, Deputy Associate Dean (Research)
• Affiliations: Member of The Vere Gordon Childe Centre
• Key projects: ARC Future Fellowship (2023–2027), ARC Linkage Project (2024–2027), and modularized archive preservation initiatives

Her research interests include Aboriginal musics, settler colonial histories, and gender studies. Notable publications include Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1930–1970 (2020) and Music, Dance and the Archive (2022, co-edited), which won the 2022 Mander Jones Award. Her work frequently intersects with collaborative community projects and digital archiving.

Awards include the 2023 Sydney Leaders Award and 2023 SUPRA HDR Supervisor of the Year. She supervises projects on gender equity in Papua New Guinean music, Dharug cultural practices, and gendered analysis in classical piano works.

Labs/Teams: Leads PARADISEC Sydney Unit and collaborates with Indigenous communities on cultural heritage reconnection projects.