ABOUT THE TEAM
PROJECT EDITOR
Sushma Griffin is the lead editor and curator of the Emotional Lives of Cities online pedagogical resource and public-facing website. She is a Lecturer in art history in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University. Her areas of expertise are the art, architecture, and visual culture of South Asia, with an emphasis on 19th-century photography and 20- and 21st-century film from India. Her research explores the colonial archive’s continuing relations of power, examining the complex ways in which photography and film intervene in this power structure. Her research has been supported by grants from the Getty Research Institute and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.
TEAM
Andrea Bubenik is an Associate Professor 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 (FRHistS, FQA) is Professor of Architectural History at Queensland University of Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment. 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.
Saachi Shivdasani is a product designer specialising in digital storytelling, and accessible web experiences. She contributed to the development of this website.
PROJECT
This project was supported by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, a nation-wide research collaboration of five Australian universities (University of Western Australia, Adelaide University, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, and University of Queensland).
COLLABORATORS
Samer Akkach is Professor of Architectural History at Adelaide University. His research spans the fields of architectural history and theory and Islamic studies. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), which was established in 1997.
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).
Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist based in New York. His artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places, accompanying art photographs, immersive multiple-channel video and mixed-media installations for museums and galleries.
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.
Terri Fuelling completed an Art History Honours degree from the University of Queensland and works in Brisbane’s cultural industry.
Ewan Fernie is Professor at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. He was the Founding Director of the “Everything to Everybody Project", a major collaboration with Birmingham City Council, seeking to revive the Birmingham Shakespeare Memorial Library.
Peter Holbrook was Professor of Shakespeare and English Renaissance Literature at the University of Queensland and Founding Director of the UQ Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (from 2011 to 2018). He is currently finishing a book on Shakespeare, Literature, and Socialism.
Joanna Horton is a writer of fiction, essays, and criticism, living in Meanjin (Brisbane). She is the author of the novels Catching the Light (2025) and Between You and Me (2023).
Bhupendra Karia (1936-94) is an internationally renowned Indian photographer, who was based in the United States. He taught photography and design at the University of Southern California and the University of Baroda and helped to establish the International Center for Photography in New York.
William Low is the author and creator of the Yangon Time Machine. He is the Digital Innovation Lead on emerging themes for the organisation Save the Children. He works in international development and the humanitarian sector and has considerable experience in the Asia and Pacific region, primarily Myanmar.
Jasper Ludewig is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Technology in Sydney. His research examines how architecture has participated in systems of colonial governance and racial capitalism in Australia and the Pacific
Caspar Pearson is Director of Studies and Reader in Art History at the Warburg Institute in London. His work focuses on the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance, as well as historiography and the afterlives of the Renaissance in later periods.
Dallas Rogers is Professor and Head of Urbanism in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He works on the colonial and contemporary politics of land, housing, property, and urban development. He is the founder of City Road Podcast, amongst others radio projects.
Andrew Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland. His research focuses on Research by Design; architecture as an open question, urban and social space, architecture's relationship with the city, and scales of regional operation. His work has been published in leading journals including Casabella and Architecture Australia.
Ali Rad Yousefnia is a photographer and Teaching Associate in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Queensland.