Biography
Dr Billy Griffiths is a historian and DECRA Research Fellow with the Alfred Deakin Institute. His research engages with cultural heritage, Indigenous history, political history, archaeology and seascapes. His latest book, Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia (Black Inc., 2018), won the Felicia A Holton Book Award, the Ernest Scott Prize, the John Mulvaney Book Award, the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and 2019 Book of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. He was the recipient of the 2020 Max Crawford Medal from the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
He is also the author of The China Breakthrough: Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971 (Monash University Publishing, 2012) and co-editor with Mike Smith of The Australian Archaeologist’s Book of Quotations (Monash University Publishing, 2015).
He is a Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies (SHSS), the Co-Convenor of the People, Place and Heritage Research Stream (ADI) and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH). He serves as the Deputy Chair of Australian Book Review.
Read more on Billy's profilePublications
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Lynette Russell, Patrick Nunn, Natalie Bateman, Billy Griffiths, Tiffany Shellam, Ruth Morgan, Laura Rademaker
(2022), pp. 1-24, Journal of Australian Studies, London, Eng., C1
A Colonial Surface Scatter: Deepening Histories at Jiigurru / Walmbaar (Lizard Island)'
Billy Griffiths
(2021), Vol. 12, pp. 32-42, Humanities Australia, Acton, A.C.T., C1
William Griffiths
(2020), pp. 1-10, Fire, flood and plague: Australian writers respond to 2020, North Sydney, N.S.W., B1
How archaeology helped save the Franklin River
William Griffiths
(2019), pp. 40-47, The Van Diemen Anthology 2019, Hobart, Tasmania, B1
The archive of the Earth: reading Rocky Cape
William Griffiths
(2019), Vol. 20, pp. 1-24, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Baltimore, Md., C1
What we were told: Responses to 65,000 years of Aboriginal history
W Griffiths, Lynette Russell
(2018), Vol. 42, pp. 31-53, Aboriginal History Journal, Canberra, A.C.T., C1
Caring for country: the place where the dreaming changed shape
W Griffiths
(2017), Vol. 56, pp. 232-245, Griffith review, South Bank, Qld., B1-1
'The Dawn' of Australian Archaeology: John Mulvaney at Fromm's Landing
W Griffiths
(2017), Vol. 8, pp. 100-111, Journal of Pacific archaeology, Auckland, New Zealand, C1
The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations
Mike Smith, Billy Griffiths
(2015), Melbourne, Vic., A7
A world in a grain of sand: the Malakunanja II diaries
W Griffiths
(2013), Vol. 41, pp. 162-177, Griffith review, South Bank, Qld., B1
The China Breakthrough: Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971
W Griffiths
(2012), Melbourne, Vic., A1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Fugitive Traces: Reconstructing Yulluna experiences of the frontier
A/Prof Lynley Wallis, Dr Billy Griffiths, Prof Heather Burke, Mr Nicholas Hadnutt, Ms Trina Jackson, Mr Vincent Wall
ARC Special Research Initiatives
- 2023: $33,250
- 2022: $20,750
- 2021: $20,750
Shadow Continent: Submerged Histories from Sahul
Dr Billy Griffiths
ARC DECRA - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
- 2023: $116,072
- 2022: $117,006
Supervisions
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