Management Committee

President

Dr Karen Schamberger is a historian and museum curator. She is currently a curator in the exhibitions team at the National Library of Australia and is also President of the Young Historical Society which manages the local museum. She has previously worked as a consultant historian to 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on The Burrangong Affray exhibit (2018), as a curator at the National Museum of Australia and the Immigration Museum, Melbourne and as a Research Assistant at Deakin University and the University of Wollongong. She is interested in Chinese Australian history, cross-cultural relations, migration and transnational histories, as well as material culture and museology.

Secretary/Treasurer

Paul Macgregor, historian and heritage consultant, is President of The Uncovered Past Institute, which undertakes archaeological excavations with public participation. He was Curator of Melbourne’s Chinese Museum from 1990 to 2005, and has published widely, organised many conferences and exhibitions, and worked on several major research projects, all on Chinese Australian history. He is also a committee member, curator and historian at Our Chinese Past Inc, which conducts research projects on Chinese Australian history and heritage. He is currently researching Chinese economic activity in Australia, and the material culture heritage of Chinese Australians, as part of a wider investigation of the nineteenth and early twentieth century co-evolution of European and Asian societies in Australasia, China, Southeast Asia, North America and the Pacific/Indian Ocean worlds. 
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Committee Member

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Dr Sandi Robb is a historian and cultural heritage specialist with interpretation, research, exhibition, curatorial and cultural heritage experience across North Queensland. She has presented at local, national and international conferences on Chinese Australian History, and is a published author with her book Cairns Chinatown: A Heritage Study. In 2018-19 she collaborated with the Ingham Family History Association, and recently held a large exhibition, Re-discovering Buk- Ti: Chinese Settlers in the Herbert River Valley. She is a founding member and current president of the Chinese Heritage in Northern Australia Inc., a not for profit organization committed to promoting northern Australia’s Chinese History and Heritage.
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