Paige Gleeson completed a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts Honours at the University of Tasmania and commenced a full-time PhD candidature in July 2017. Paige’s Honour’s thesis examined the affective power of photographs and legacies of traumatic memory through a comparative analysis of a series of photographs taken of Tasmanian Aboriginal people at Oyster Cove station, with those by contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer Ricky Maynard. The findings of this research were published as a journal article in Tasmanian Historical Studies in 2016. Paige’s research interests are the Indigenous histories of Australia and the Pacific, art history and theory, women’s history, museum studies and material culture, colonial photography, the history of ethnography, and collective and transcultural memory.