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Biography

Dr Mike Jones is an archivist, historian, and collections consultant. He has a background in art history, and more than fifteen years of experience working with the GLAM sector (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) on digital, archival, and public history projects. In December 2018 he completed his PhD in History at the University of Melbourne's School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (conferred in April 2019). The resulting thesis, Documenting Artefacts and Archives in the Relational Museum, is an interdisciplinary look at the history of computerisation in museums, the interconnectedness of archives and museum collections, and the ways in which collections-based knowledge is conceptualised, captured, and managed by large collecting institutions.

From July 2019 to February 2023, Mike worked in the School of History at the Australian National University, Canberra, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program, Rediscovering the Deep Human Past (ARC FL170100121). The project aimed to develop a deeper understanding of Australia’s pre-1788 history, transforming the scale and scope of history through the analysis of Australia’s epic Indigenous narratives alongside relevant new scientific evidence to create new approaches to the history of Greater Australia/Sahul.

Mike now holds an Honorary position with the Research Centre for Deep History, and continues to collaborate with colleagues at the ANU.

Qualifications

MA, PhD, ASAAP

Research Interests

Relationality; historical and contemporary collections and collections documentation; digital humanities approaches to history, deep time, and archives; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and collections; and the management and dissemination of collections-based knowledge, with a particular focus on research documentation (such as field books) and anthropological and ethnographic knowledge.

External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations

Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania

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