About Alexandra Roginski

I am an award-winning historian, writer and heritage consultant based in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri country. My work focuses on practices and ideas of the body, past and present, including in terms of the repatriation of Ancestral remains. I am the author of 'Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand' (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and 'The Hanged Man and the Body Thief: Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery' (Monash University Publishing, 2015). I am a Visiting Fellow of Deakin University. My writing has appeared in 'The

Times Literary Supplement', 'The Australian Book Review' and 'The Age' newspaper, and my public engagement work has included projects with The National Portrait Gallery (Australia), State Library of New South Wales and the Public Record Office Victoria.

NBN Episodes hosted by Alexandra:

Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker, "Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up" (NewSouth, 2023)

August 18, 2024

Tiwi Story

Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker

Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up (New SouthPress, 2023) is a groundbreaking work of history that spans from Deep Time to the present. Applying …