Western Sydney University

hart_cohen_2012Dr Hart Cohen is Professor in Media Arts in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, Australia. He  is a member of the Institute for Culture and Society and supervises a number of MA (research), DCA and PhD students. He has published widely in the field of visual anthropology, communications and film studies.

Dr Cohen directed two Australian Research Council Projects related to the Strehlow Collection held at the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs. One of these is an online database documentary related to TGH Strehlow’s memoir, Journey to Horseshoe Bend. Two films have been made in relation to these projects: Mr. Strehlow’s Films (SBSi 2001) and Cantata Journey (ABC TV 2006). He co-edited a special issue of Media International Australia on the theme of Digital Anthropology (MIA 116 August 2005). He has a book placed with Routledge titled, The Strehlow Archive: Explorations in old and new media.

Email: h.cohen@uws.edu.au       Phone: 02 9852 5153   

Web: http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/hart_cohen


juan_francisco_salazar_2012 Juan Francisco Salazar is Associate Professor in communication and media studies at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, and Director of  Research at the Institute for Culture and Society. His research interests and areas of expertise include: media anthropology; community and alternative media; Indigenous media and communication rights; communication and social change; Latin American cultural studies; experimental film, documentary film; cultural mapping; ICT’s in education and intercultural dialogue; cultural studies of Antarctica.

As a media practitioner he has produced several documentaries and experimental short films, and collaborated with a wide range of community media/arts organisations and artists including several local councils, creative studios and community development organizations in Sydney, Mexico, the UK and Chile. He is an international coordinator of the OURMedia Network since 2004 and was convenor of the OURMedia 6th International Conference in Sydney, 2007. He has been a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (2008) and a visiting teaching fellow at the School of Communication, Universidad de las Américas, Mexico (2006).

Email: j.salazar@uws.edu.au       Phone: 02 9852 5652

Web: http://www.uws.edu.au/ics/people/researchers/juan_francisco_salazar


Rachel MorleyRachel Morley is a Lecturer in Communications and Writing in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. Her research interests and areas of expertise include: literary and creative practice (with a particular interest in biography and autobiography); new media writing technologies; postgraduate pedagogy and academic literacies; theory and practice in qualitative research (including ethnographies of writing and representation); the politics and ethics of archival research; and social and cultural representations of surrogate motherhood. Rachel also has experience working with online archival databases (see the ARC-funded, ‘The Visual Mediation of a Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow’s Journey to Horseshoe Bend’, database).

Rachel has published essays in a range of areas including biography and autobiography, archival studies, nineteenth-century literature, and women in sport. She is Assistant Editor and Postgraduate Editor of Global Media Journal – Australian Edition and a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre.

Email: r.morley@uws.edu.au      Phone: 02 9852 5424     

Webhttp://www.uws.edu.au/writing_and_society/people/professional_staff/rachel_morley