Research interests
Affiliations
Australian Museums and Galleries Association
Museums Association (UK)
Australia ICOMOS
Units taught
AIM735 Leadership in Museums and Heritage Organisations
AIG211 Geographies of Heritage and Tourism
AIM733 Applied Heritage Project
AIM704 Heritage, Tourism and Development in the Asia Pacific
AIM703 Introduction to Heritage Planning
Conferences
Recent Conference Presentations
‘”Somehow the ill winds of war have been favourable to me”: travel, training, and trauma in the life and works of Louis Kahan’, ‘Imaging Emigration––Translating Exile: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror in/via Austria’, Vienna, April 2019 (with Anna Hirsh)
‘Understanding emotional engagement: using visual research methodologies for visitor research’ Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Hangzhou, China, September 2018 (with Kristal Buckley)
‘Crossing Geographical and Professional Boundaries: Temporary Holocaust Exhibitions, Jewish Émigré Designers and new Museum Topologies’, Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, Hangzhou, China, September 2018
‘Understanding engagement: using visual research methodologies for visitor research’, Museums Galleries Australia Annual Conference, June 2018
Invited speaker – Jewish Emigres Conference, Victorian and Albert Museum, London, November 2017
Before Eichmann: Holocaust Exhibitions and the Myth of Silence- Department Seminar, University of Brighton, June 2017
Invited speaker – ‘The social agency of museums in civic engagement: investigating the impact of education programs at Holocaust Museums’ Reverberations: the Holocaust, Human Rights and the Museum, Sydney February 2017 (with Donna-Lee Frieze)
Professional activities
- Cultural Tourism Victoria (Board Member) 2015 -
- International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - member of the Australian delegation and member of the Memorial and Museums Expert Working Group. https://www.holocaustremembrance.com
I have been involved in numerous committees that relate to cultural heritage issues, including: the Historic Shipwrecks Advisory Committee (a Statutory Committee reporting to the Victorian Heritage Council) 2007-2008; Australian Register of Historic Vessels Steering Committee, 2007-8; Victorian Cultural Tourism Forum Committee Member, 2007-8; Elected President Australian Maritime Museum Council, 2006-8; Elected Secretary Maritime Museum of Victoria Board of Management, 2005-7.
I am currently Course Director of the Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies programs here at Deakin and also act as a reviewer for the Faculty of Arts and Education's Human Ethics Advisory
Committee.
I have recently been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Winchester in the UK, attached to the Centre for Applied Archaeology and Heritage Management (CAAHM)
Publications
Shifting responses to antisemitism and racism: temporary exhibitions at the Jewish Holocaust Centre
Steven Cooke, Donna Frieze
(2019), pp. 327-349, Holocaust memory and racism in the postwar world, Detroit, Mich., B1
Steven Cooke, Dora Constantinidis
(2019), pp. 1-18, Routledge international handbook of new digital practices in galleries, libraries, archives, museums and heritage sites, Abingdon, Eng., B1
S Cooke
(2018), Vol. 24, pp. 445-465, Holocaust studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1
Using the historic urban landscape to reimagine Ballarat : the local context
K Buckley, S Cooke, S Fayad
(2016), pp. 93-113, Urban heritage, development and sustainability : international frameworks, national and local governance, Abingdon, Eng., B1
Affect and the politics of testimony in Holocaust museums
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2016), pp. 75-92, Heritage, affect and emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures., Abingdon, Eng., B1
Visitor, contributor and conversationalist: multiple digital identities of the heritage citizen
S Cooke, H Lewi, W Smith, A Murray
(2016), Vol. 28, pp. 12-24, Historic environment, Carlton, Vic., C1
The Sweetland Project. Remembering Gallipoli in the Shire of Nunawading
S Cooke
(2015), Melbourne, Vic., A1
The interior of our memories: a history of Melbourne's Jewish holocaust centre
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Ormond, Vic., A1
Imagination, performance and affect: a critical pedagogy of the Holocaust?
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Vol. 21, pp. 157-171, Holocaust studies. a journal of culture and history, Middlesex, Eng., C1
'On the move'? Maritime heritage and urban redevelopment in Melbourne
S Cooke
(2015), Vol. 27, pp. 24-35, Historic environment, Melbourne, Vic., C1
On an ordinary suburban street: a brief history of Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 548-568, Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, [Australia], C1-1
Community museums and the creation of a 'sense of place': Holocaust Museums in Australia
S Cooke, A Alba, D Frieze
(2014), Vol. 9, pp. 1-1, reCollections, Canberra, ACT, C1
'It's still in your body': Identity, place and performance in holocaust testimonies
S Cooke, D Frieze
(2014), pp. 181-195, Travel and Imagination, B1
The National Museum of Scotland : a symbol for a new Scotland?
F McLean, S Cooke
(2003), Vol. 45, Scottish affairs, Edinburgh, Scotland, C1-1
Our common inheritance? : narratives of self and other in the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(2002), pp. 109-122, Celtic geographies : old culture, new times, London, England, B1-1
Tales from the Riverbank: place-marketing and maritime heritages
D Atkinson, S Cooke, D Spooner
(2002), Vol. 8, pp. 25-40, International journal of heritage studies, London, England, C1-1
S Cooke, F McLean
(2002), Vol. 118, pp. 283-298, Scottish geographical journal, Oxon, England, C1-1
Your story too? The new Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
S Cooke
(2001), pp. 590-606, Remembering for the future : the Holocaust in an age of genocides, New York, N.Y., B1-1
S Cooke, L Jenkins
(2001), Vol. 33, pp. 382-390, Area, C1-1
Communicating national identity : visitor perceptions of the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(2000), pp. 147-160, Heritage and museums : shaping national identity : papers presented at The Robert Gordon University Heritage Convention 1999, Shaftesbury, England, B1-1
Negotiating memory and identity: The Hyde Park Holocaust Memorial, London
S Cooke
(2000), Vol. 26, pp. 449-465, Journal of Historical Geography, C1-1
Conceptualising private and public national identities : the case of the Museum of Scotland
S Cooke, F McLean
(1999), pp. 361-365, European advances in consumer research : Bridging the Atlantic, Jouy-en-Josas, France, B1-1
Beth Shalom : rethinking history and memory
S Cooke
(1999), Vol. 8, pp. 21-41, Journal of holocaust education, London, England, C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place - University of Melbourne
A/Prof Hannah Lewi, Dr Wally Smith, Prof Tom Kvan, Dr David Nichols, Dr Steven Cooke, Dr Dirk vom Lehn
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2015: $4,000
- 2014: $4,000
Other Public Sector Funding
City of Ballarat's Historic Urban Landscape
Dr Steven Cooke, Ms Kristal Buckley
- 2014: $5,000
- 2013: $9,000
Industry and Other Funding
Box Hill and the Centenary of the Gallipoli Landings
Dr Steven Cooke
- 2015: $13,000
- 2014: $13,000
- 2013: $18,580
Centenary of Box Hill RSL project
Dr Steven Cooke
- 2018: $24,250
- 2017: $15,750
- 2016: $15,000
Sites at Risk: Guidelines for Best Practice
Dr Steven Cooke
- 2019: $3,134
Supervisions
Lorinda Cramer
Thesis entitled: Needlework and genteel identity in gold rush Victoria
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences