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Billy Griffiths is a Senior DECRA Research Fellow and historian at Deakin University's Alfred Deakin Institute. His award-winning research investigates Indigenous histories, cultural heritage, and environmental change in Australia. Griffiths lectures in the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies program and is an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures.
Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
- Graduate Certificate of Higher Education Learning and Teaching, Deakin University
Research Focus: Griffiths' work centers on oral histories of frontier violence, cultural heritage preservation, and Australia's submerged coastlines. His interdisciplinary approach combines archaeology, environmental history, and collaborative methodologies with Indigenous communities to reconstruct and reinterpret Australia's deep human history.
Awards:
- NSW Premier's Literary Award Book of the Year (2019)
- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (2019)
- John Mulvaney Book Award (2019)
- Ernest Scott Prize (2019)
- Felicia A Holton Book Award (2019)
- Max Crawford Medal (2020)
Projects & Supervision: Leads ARC-funded projects including 'Shadow Continent: Submerged Histories from Sahul' (DECRA, $346,646) and 'Fugitive Traces: Reconstructing Yulluna experiences of the frontier' ($74,750). Supervises doctoral research on cultural heritage and historical reconstruction in Australian contexts.
