Robert Mason

A/Prof. Robert Mason is the former President of AILASA, and a public historian and museum studies scholar interested in the history of coloniality and mobility in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. His research explores intercultural memory and heritage in the entangled Spanish, Portuguese, and British histories of Australia, Asia and the Americas. Robert is the author of more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, four edited collections and a monograph. Robert has supervised more than 20 HDR candidates to completion. Recently, he was the 2019 Mendel Fellow in Latin American History at the University of Indiana Bloomington. He is Co-Chair of the Australian chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.