Biography
Dr Billy Griffiths is a historian and lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies. 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), was awarded 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 History Awards.
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 member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH).
Read more on Billy's profilePublications
How archaeology helped save the Franklin River
William Griffiths
(2019), pp. 40-47, The Van Diemen Anthology 2019, Hobart, Tasmania, B1
'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
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
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
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