Dr Alexandra Dellios

Alexandra Dellios is a historian and senior lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her research considers the public and oral history of migrant and refugee communities, and their experiences of working and family life in twentieth century Australia. She has published on: child migration; migrant rights activism and the building of multiculturalism; immigration centres and hostels; the intersections of migrant, industrial and labour heritage; migrant public history practices, and cultural heritage management in Australia. 

She is the author of Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press: 2022) and Histories of Controversy: Bonegilla Migrant Centre (Melbourne University Publishing: 2017), co-author (with Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon) of Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia (Berghahn: 2024), and co-editor (with Eureka Henrich) of Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders (Routledge: 2020).

She was the Chair of the Editorial Board for Studies in Oral History (2020-2025), a founding member of the Australian Migration History Network, and an Executive Committee member of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.

She remains engaged in oral history projects and teaching, community volunteering, and heritage interpretation efforts. 

PhD (UniMelb), BA Hons (UQ)

migration and refugee histories, memory studies, public history, oral history, multiculturalism and ethnicity, cultural heritage management and interpretation, industrial and working class heritage, migrant rights movements