Dr Katherine Ellinghaus

Associate Professor of History, Deputy Head, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University

Arts & Culture

Unaipon: Behind the da Vinci comparisons

David Unaipon has been transformed into the Aboriginal polymath. Yet what do these comparisons with da Vinci mean when considered against the backdrop of settler-colonialism?

Arts & Culture

Criss-cross history hidden in a letter

A colonist’s letter of 1839 is crammed with adventure, but holds a deeper and unsettling insight into the history of Australia’s frontier conflict