I am an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow based in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University (ANU). My current project, "Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous human remains in the collections of Imperial Russia", aims to produce the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century. My research to date addresses the German-language tradition within anthropology, archaeology and ethnology in Australia and the Pacific region.

I hold a PhD in History, completed in 2011 in the School of Culture, History and Language at ANU, as well as a Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Science, a Bachelor of Arts (Degree with Honours), a Bachelor of Science, and a Diploma in Modern Languages (German), all from the University of Melbourne. From 2011 to 2015 I was employed as Executive Assistant to the Ambassador at the Australian Embassy in Berlin, where my responsibilities included bilateral research collaboration and the repatriation of Australian Indigenous ancestral remains from German collecting institutions.

DipML (German) (Melb.), BSc (Melb.), BA (Hons) (Melb.), MA (HPS) (Melb.), PhD (ANU)