Mandy Paul

Mandy holds postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies and has over three decades of practice as a professional historian and in the Galleries, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) sector as a curator, collection manager and museum director. Mandy has worked with Locusar and for Representative Bodies on native title claims across Australian jurisdictions since her first job in native title research at the Central Land Council in the mid-1990s. She has published widely on Australian social and cultural history, museology, and the intersection of history and law in native title practice.

As well as her work with Locusar, Mandy is currently Head of Collections at the History Trust of South Australia. She is also a Partner Investigator on two ARC Linkage Projects: ‘Reconciling with the Frontier: Accounting for Colonial Conflict’ and ‘LGBT Migrations: Life story narratives in the South Australian GLAM Sector’.  Mandy is a member of State Records Council of South Australia, a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, and a member of the Flinders University College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Industry Advisory Board.