Humanities

The museum's Humanities department works to preserve, develop, exhibit and interpret these collections, thereby seeking to inform and enrich the lives of current and future generations of Victorians and other communities.

Historical studies

Bec Carland

Senior Curator, History of Collections & Scientific Art
Michelle Stevenson

Senior Curator Politics & Society
Dr Moya McFadzean

Senior Curator, Migration & Cultural Diversity
Sophie Couchman

Exhibition Curator for Post WWII British Migrants to Australia

Indigenous Cultures

Dr Elizabeth (Liz) Bonshek

Senior Curator, Pacific Cultures
Dr Jason Gibson

Curator, Howitt and Fison Project
Kimberley Moulton

Senior Curator South Eastern Aboriginal Collections
Lindy Allen

Senior Curator, Anthropology (Northern Australia)
Lisa Hilli

Collection Manager, Access
Mira (Mary) Morris (nee Lakic)

Senior Collection Manager and Curator, Ethnohistory Collection
Dr Phillip Batty

Senior Curator, Anthropology, Central Australia
Robert McWilliams

Senior Collection Manager, Indigenous Restricted Collections
Sione Napi Francis

Collection Manager, Indigenous Collections
Zena Cumpston

Assistant Curator South Eastern Indigenous Collections Online

Technology and Society

Catherine Forge

Curator, Invisible Farmer Project
Deborah Tout-Smith

Deputy Head, Humanities (Exhibitions), Senior Curator, Home & Community
Fiona Kinsey

Senior Curator, Images & Image Making
Liza Dale-Hallett

Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures & Lead Curator, Invisible Farmer Project
Lorenzo Iozzi

Senior Collection Manager, Images
Matilda Vaughan

Curator, Engineering