Tristen Anne Norrie Jones

Tristen Jones is a lecturer in the Master of Museum and Heritage Studies program. Her main research interests are Australian Indigenous archaeology and heritage, with a focus on rock art, cultural landscapes, material culture and museum collections. Recently, Tristen has worked on developing Indigenous led research, knowledge sharing and teaching partnerships in tertiary education with Australian Indigenous communities as part of the ANUs Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge. Her most recent research has focused on how Australian Indigenous and Pacific material culture collections can transform disciplinary histories, in particular how the materiality and agency of objects and their relevance to contemporary Indigenous communities can shed new light on the hidden histories of museum collections.