Ray Kerkhove

• Research Fellow, Associate Professor (Adjunct), School of Social Sciences (Archaeology), The University of Queensland

Kerkhove is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Queensland's School of Social Sciences, working on the ARC-funded project 'Diving in the Desert', which examines Mithaka ethnohistory and historical records of floods and droughts in the Channel Country (Queensland)

BA, MA & PhD from University of Queensland. Independent professional historian - Associate with the Australian Centre for Genocide Studies; Adjunct with USQ; casual research historian with two departments @ UQ. Employed by 4 universities, 5 shire councils, 2 museums and many Indigenous, arts and heritage bodies. Historian-in-Residence Sunshine Coast (2022), Noosa (2020); Visiting Fellow at Griffith University (2017, 2018); Governor's Gold Award (National Trust of Queensland 2011); Helen Taylor Award for Local History (2010). Published 13 books, 40 peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters, 5 book reviews, 90 heritage reports, 4 commemorative booklets, 11 online essays.

• 2025–present Associate Professor (Adjunct), Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Queensland
• 2022–2025 Associate Professor (Adjunct), School of Educationj, University of Southern Queensland
• 2020–2022 Historian-in-Residence, Noosa Regional Council, Sunshine Coast Regional Council

• 2002 University of Queensland, PhD (Doctorate of Philosophy)

• Professional Historians Association Queensland

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