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Sabra Thorner

Publication

Thorner, S., Rive, L., Dallwitz, J., and Inyika, J. (2019). “Never Giving Up: Negotiating, Culture-Making, and the Infinity of the Archive.” In Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 18. Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 263-284.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Thorner, S. (2019) “The Photograph as Archive: Crafting Contemporary Koorie Culture,” Journal of Material Culture 24(1): 22-47. 

Thorner, S. (2018) “Maree’s Backyard: Intercultural Collaborations for Indigenous Sovereignty” (with F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, and P. Balla), Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities: Dispersal, Damage, and Resurgence, special issue of Oceania 88(3): 269-291, Melinda Hinkson and Eve Vincent, eds. 

Honor

Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum on April 7, 2022.  This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316). View the flyer for the event.

Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the Mount Holyoke Art Museum on “The Afterlives of Objects” on November 7, 2019.

Niamh Timmons

Publication

Timmons, N. (2023). Constellating Trans Activist Histories. Graduate History Review, 12, 188-200. https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321302.

Eleanor R. Townsley

Publication

Townsley, E. “The Space of Opinion:  Intellectuals, Media, and the Public Sphere.” (with Ron Jacobs). New York: Oxford University Press. 2011

Townsley, E. “Contexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case-study of “Public Intellectual” Debates in English Canada” (with Neil McLaughlin), Canadian Review of Sociology / La Société canadienne de sociologie 48(4):341-368. (2011)

Townsley, E. “Intellectuals, Media and the Public Sphere”. Pp. 284-317 in The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Jacobs and Phillip Smith (eds). Oxford University Press. (2011)

Townsley, E.   “Career Pathways in the Natural and Social Sciences Science in Liberal Arts Institutions” NSF Advance Grant Proposal for Institutional Transformation with Renae Brodie, Amber Douglas, Elizabeth Markovits, and Matthew McKeever. (2011)