Dr Donna Houston
Lecturer
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My research interests focus on the intersections and interrelations between the environment, place, cultural memory, pedagogy, public culture and social justice. I completed my Masters degree in Geography at Kent State University in 1999 and a PhD in Geography at the University of Southern California in 2006. My doctoral thesis explored the cultural and environmental histories of high-level nuclear waste disposal in rural Nevada. Originally from Perth, I received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Curtin University and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Cultural Heritage Studies from the same institution. Since returning to Australia, I have reconnected with ideas about heritage, memory and place making, particularly in relation to cultures of change (social and ecological) and the remaking of publics of participation. Thus, in addition to working on issues to do with nuclear landscapes (which one day soon will hopefully be a book!), I have also been working on a project that looks at urban nature and public culture in Australia's preeminently 'postnatural' city - the Gold Coast.
Mailing address: Dept of Human Geography, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia