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Dr. Vannessa Hearman is a Senior Lecturer in History at Curtin University, coordinating the History program and teaching International Relations. Specializing in Southeast Asian history, her research focuses on Indonesia and Timor-Leste, particularly Cold War impacts, human rights, and historical justice. Her award-winning book *Unmarked Graves* examines the 1965-68 anti-communist violence in Indonesia. She leads an ARC-funded project on East Timorese migration and co-leads a study on post-conflict art in peacekeeping zones. Hearman holds advanced degrees from the University of Melbourne and is a certified Indonesian translator. She contributes to scholarly journals like *Inside Indonesia* and *Asian Studies Review*, and has received multiple awards including the ASAA Early Career Book Prize.
Her teaching spans undergraduate and postgraduate courses on democracy, war history, and conflict studies. Research interests include migration history, Australia-Asia relations, and the role of photography in political memory. She supervises PhD projects in areas like diaspora studies and post-conflict art. Professional memberships include the Asian Studies Association of Australia and the Australian Historical Association.
Recent articles analyze Cold War trade unionism, photographic representations of famine, and artistic responses to mass violence. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary activism, emphasizing transnational networks and memory politics.
- Education:
- PhD (Melbourne)
- Master in Contemporary Asian Analysis (Melbourne)
- GradCert Communication (VU)
- BA/BCom (Melbourne)
Research Grants:
- ARC Special Research Initiative: Remembering East Timorese Migration ($178,000)
- ARC-funded Art of Peace project ($1.8M)
Awards:
- ASAA Early Career Book Prize (2020)
- University of Sydney Teaching Commendation (2015)
Advising:
- Supervised 2 PhD completions, 2 MPhil, and multiple Honours projects
- Expertise in diaspora studies, post-conflict art, and human rights history
Labs/Teams: Editorial board member of *Inside Indonesia* and international editor for *Asian Studies Review*.
