The Deakin Centre for Contemporary Histories is a dynamic, diverse and distinctive research centre that delivers and translates high-quality research into outcomes that are relevant and meaningful to contemporary society.
Since it was established in 2015, the Deakin Centre for Contemporary Histories has become a critical research body to understand the uses of history in public debate and the unfinished business of the modern past.
Under the leadership of Professor Cassandra Atherton, Associate Professor Clare Corbould, Associate Professor Tony Joel, Professor David Lowe and Professor Andrew Singleton the Deakin Centre for Contemporary Histories brings together more than 50 researchers working on topics ranging from Australia’s Indigenous past, the material transmission of culture, religious change in Australia, to the political uses of history, revolution in Europe and modern Pacific history.
