Dr Jessica Neath

Dr Jessica Neath

Research Officer, Wominjeka Djeembana Indigenous Research Lab

Jessica Neath is a non-Indigenous Australian of settler descent and has been supporting research development at Djeembana since October 2019. In February 2021 she commenced as Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council project “More than a guulany: Indigenous Knowledge Systems” led by Dr Brian Martin and Associate Professor Brook Garru Andrew.

In 2016, Jessica began working with Associate Professor Brook Garru Andrew as a research assistant on the Australian Research Council project “Representation, Remembrance and the Memorial”, supporting research collaborations with artists, scholars and communities across Australia and internationally, coordinating the RR.Memorial forum, and assisting with publications and exhibition outcomes. She continues to work with Brook across various research projects and initiatives.

She was awarded her PhD in art history at Monash University in 2015 and has published writing in The Journal of Australian Studies, Arena Magazine, eyeline, The History of Photography, Landscape Architecture Australia and Fashion Theory.