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Mickey Dewar has worked on Northern Territory history for nearly 30 years. Two of her books have been short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards for Community and Regional History. In 1998 she also received the Jessie Litchfield Award for Literature.
For many years she was Senior Curator of Territory History at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and curated a number of exhibitions, including the development of a permanent gallery on Cyclone Tracy. In 2007 she was appointed Frederick Watson Fellow at the National Archives of Australia and also received a history grant from the Northern Territory government.
Mickey Dewar is passionate about the role of museums as custodians of community heritage and public history. Her current research interests include the social history of Darwin in the post-war period; housing and built heritage; and memory, identity and its relationship to a sense of place.
The National Museum of Australia Director's Fellowship in 2008 provided an opportunity to extend her research on the role of community memory in representations of public narrative, identity and artefact.
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