ABOUT THE TEAM
PROJECT CURATOR
Sushma Griffin is the lead editor and curator of the Emotional Lives of Cities pedagogical resource and public-facing website. Her research examines the cross-cultural reception of nineteenth-century British colonial photography in India with a broader focus on modernism and its contemporary heirs in the visual culture and architecture of South and Southeast Asia. Her work has been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute (2021-22) and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (2023-24). She was the Public Outreach Officer for the University of Queensland Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence and a Projects Curator for academic and public events including Continuing Professional Development Seminars for schoolteachers between 2016 and 2021.
TEAM
Andrea Bubenik is a Senior Lecturer in art history in the School of Communication and Arts at UQ. She was the Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions between 2018 and 2022.
Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning. He was the Stuckeman Visiting Professor in Interdisciplinary Design at Penn State University.
Brent Wilson is a Brisbane-based visual and sonic artist who is passionate about creative, innovative design. He explores the ways in which good design can enhance the reception of digital projects, websites, and exhibitions and their associated catalogues.
COLLABORATORS
Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies at Monash University. He writes about surveillance, digital media, and popular culture.
Andreas Angeladakis is an Athens-based contemporary artist. His recent exhibitions include DEMOS - A Reconstruction (MOCA, Toronto, 2018), I used to build my feelings, now I watch them leave (La Loge, Brussels, 2018), and Learning from Athens (Documenta 14, Kassel/Athens, 2017).
Nathan Coley is a contemporary British artist. Shortlisted for the Turner prize in 2007, he has
has held both solo and group exhibitions internationally, and his work is held in both private and public collections worldwide, including the National Galleries of Scotland.
Natalie Collie is Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. She teaches media theory, with a research focus on questions of space, identity, and communication.
Sam Cranstoun is a visual artist based in Brisbane, his work is represented in the collections of the University of Queensland Art Museum and the Queensland University of Technology as well as the Australian Artbank.
Peter Holbrook is Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland and the Director of the UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Joanna Horton is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Queensland, researching food systems governance and UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Bhupen Karia was an internationally renowned Indian photographer based in the United States. He taught photography and design at the University of Southern California and the University of Baroda, and established the International Center for Photography in New York.
Caspar Pearson is a Lecturer and Convenor of the MA in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture, at the Warburg Institute in London.
Manu P. Sobti is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland. He works on landscape mobilities and mappings of early-medieval urbanities and architecture along the Silk Road and the Indian Subcontinent.
Ali Rad Yousefnia is a photographer and Doctoral Candidate in Architectural History at the University of Queensland.
To learn more about The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/about-the-centre/.