DrCharlotte Feakins
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-7065-9375 (opens in a new tab)
- LecturerFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTs
- Trauma-informed and healing-centred heritage
- Heritage, uncertainty, crisis and imagined futures
- Emotion, affect, memory and material culture
- Object attachment, sentimental value and belonging
- Far-right extremism, political material culture and counter-responses
- Critical folklore, nostalgia and identity
- Social and climate justice, disaster and displacement
- Community-engaged and co-designed heritage practice
- Decolonising and anti-colonial approaches to heritage
- Methodological innovation in heritage studies and archaeology
- Heritage interpretation, narrative and storytelling
Charlotte is a PI on ARC Linkage Project LP200301446: Everyday Heritage (Prof Tracy Ireland, Prof Jane Lydon, A/Prof Tim Sherratt, Dr Katherine Bagnall, Ms Sharon Veale, Dr Charlotte Feakins, Dr Cristina Garduño Freeman, Dr Imogen Wegman)
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANTRe-storying Kakadu National ParkAustralian Research Council (ARC)1 May 2026People funded by this grant:
- Ireland T,
- Feakins CM,
- Williams E,
- Jones T
- GRANTThe Significance of Sentimental Objects in Trauma and Healing: Loss, Recovery and Resilience in Flood-Affected CommunitiesBrain and Mind Centre1 Jan 2025People funded by this grant:
- Feakins CM,
- McNaught R
- GRANTBeyond Collective Nostalgia: Local Extremisms of Neo-Nationalist Heritage and the Power of Counter-Narratives in Germany and AustraliaOffice of Global and Research Engagement1 Jan 2024People funded by this grant:
- Pearce E,
- Liebich S,
- Huhn M,
- Feakins CM,
- Kandasamy N