Kiera Lindsey is currently serving as South Australia's History Advocate – the History Trust of SA’s principal public spokesperson on South Australian history.

Kiera is an award-winning historian. For over twenty years she has been enthusiastically exploring historical ideas and deepening our interest in, and understandings of, the past, via books and articles, radio and podcasts, film and television, teaching and talking.

In addition to being the inaugural winner of the Greg Dening Memorial Prize in 2009, Kiera has an award for teaching Australian History at the University of South Australia in 2013, and an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) 2018 for a project entitled ‘Speculative biography, historical craft and the case of Adelaide Ironside’.

Kiera regularly appears on radio and television, produces podcasts and offers advice to the museum and heritage sectors. She has a published monograph, an edited collection as well as numerous single- and co-publications concerned with her research passions, which range from: the nineteenth-century world; biography; creative and public history. Kiera has a particular passion for working at the generative intersections between historical research and historical imagination; using speculation to bring to life all who might otherwise remain under-represented in the historical record.

Dr Kiera Lindsey