Dr Gilbert Caluya

Gilbert is an accomplished researcher with over a decade of research experience on projects working with minority communities, government agencies, community/arts organisations and schools. He has over two decades of experience working with, and serving in, community and arts organisations focusing on multicultural and queer communities. He also serves as a public educator and is interested in workplace training. 

Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Association of Cultural Studies
Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association
Asian-Australian Studies Research Network
Cultural Research Network

gender studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, race and ethnic studies

Generally speaking my expertise lies in feminist and queer theory, critical race and decolonial theory, as well as critical and cultural theory. 

More specifically, my research focuses on the cultural politics of intimacy as it intersects with race, gender and sexuality, across multiple cultural sites, including: sexual subcultures, everyday cultures of security, surveillance cultures, digital and cultural citizenship.

• Previous Board Member (South Australian Representative), Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
• Previous Editorial Board Member, Gender, Place and Culture
• Advisory Board Member, Writing from Below

Publics, Feelings, Politics Research Network (national)

Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network (Deakin University)

Asian Media and Cultural Studies Group (Deakin University)

• Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council, 2012-2015
• Early Career Researcher of the Year, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia, 2011
• Supported Researcher Award, University of South Australia, 2009-2014
• Postgraduate Research Support Scheme, University of Sydney, 2007
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award, University of Sydney, 2004-2007
• Australian Postgraduate Award, University of Sydney, 2004-2007
• Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives Thesis Prize, 2003
• University of Sydney Medal, 2003

Current Projects

• 2022-current Thinethavone Soutphommasane (CI), David Smith (CI), Jane Park (CI), and Gilbert Caluya (CI), 'The ideologies and practices of anti-racism in Australia,' ARC Discovery Project, DP220100584 ($357,000)
• 2019-current Amelia Johns (CI), Jessica Walton (CI), Gilbert Caluya (CI), Anita Harris (CI), ‘Fostering Global Digital Citizenship: Diaspora Youth in a Connected World,’ ARC Discovery Project, DP190100635 ($310,000)

Selected Previous Projects

• 2019 Rimi Khan (CI) and Gilbert Caluya (CI), ‘Digital Citizenship and Creative Leadership: Building Capacity among Multicultural Youth,’ Melbourne Engagement Grant, MEGS20170163 ($19,734)

• 2016-2017 (Rimi Khan (CI), Gilbert Caluya (CI), Jasmine McGowan (PI), Fran Martin (PI), John Erni (PI) and Louis Ho (PI)), 'Negotiating Precarity and Youthful Mobility: Globalised Labour and the 417 Working Holiday Maker program.' Research Incubator Scheme, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne ($4,971).

• 2016-2017 Gilbert Caluya (CI) and Audrey Yue (CI), ‘Multicultural Youth Digital Citizenship,’ Multicultural Youth Centre, Melbourne ($10,000)

• 2012-2015 Gilbert Caluya (CI). ‘Burqas, Babies and Borders: Intimate Citizenship in Postcolonial Australia,’ Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council ($375,000) 

• 2012-2014 ResearchSA Fellowship, University of South Australia ($80,000).

• 2010, Gilbert Caluya (CI), ‘Burqas, Babies and Borders: Intimate Citizenship in Postcolonial Australia,’ Ten Really Good Grants Scheme, University of South Australia ($10,000)