Eureka Henrich

I am a social and cultural historian interested in experiences, understandings and representations of migration, and how they have changed. I’ve written and published on the history of migration exhibitions, museums and memorials in 20th century Australian and transnational contexts and on the role historians and history can play in immigration debates. Currently I’m working on the intertwined histories of migration, health and assimilation in post-war Australia.

During a decade working in the UK I held a lectureship at University of Hertfordshire and research fellowships the University of Leicester and King’s College London. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. I graduated from UNSW with a PhD in History in 2012.

On returning to Sydney in 2022 I held the Australian Historical Association 50th Anniversary History Fellowship and joined UNSW as a lecturer in 2023. I serve as public officer on the committee of Oral History NSW and on the Editorial Board of The Great Circle, the journal of the Australian Association of Maritime History. I was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in 2024 in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship. When I’m not being a historian I enjoy running, playing chamber music (I am a flautist by training) and parenting two small humans. I am a settler Australian, born and raised on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation.