Dr Billy Griffiths

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.