Tom Aechtner is a religious studies scholar at UQ. His research examines science-scepticism, including antievolutionism, vaccine hesitancy, media persuasion, and religion-science conflict. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, an MA from the University of Calgary, and a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Alberta.

Philip Almond is a historian of ideas at UQ, with particular interest in the history of western religious thought. His most recent  books include histories of the Antichrist, Mary Magdalene, and the Buddha in the West.

Adam Bowles is a scholar of Sanskrit at UQ having research interests in South Asian religions and history. He is a member of the International Association of Sanskrit Studies and is the President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia. Besides other projects, he is currently working on a scholarly translation of the Anuśāsanaparvan of the Mahābhārata.

Arthur Michael Briner OAM is a retired Brisbane consultant ophthalmologist. Currently he is the Heritage Officer of the Brisbane Hebrew Congregation. His research interests centre around the 1886 heritage listed Brisbane Synagogue and the restoration and preservation of the hand written records of the Congregation dating back to 1865.

Jennifer Creese is an anthropologist at the University of Leicester, UK, with interests in multiculturalism, belonging, and wellbeing. Her previous research (PhD UQ, 2020) explored experiences of the Queensland Jewish community in the multicultural state. She has been extensively involved in historical and heritage research for the Queensland Jewish community, including coordinating the community’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2015.

Lisa Marie Daunt is a Brisbane-based architect and architectural historian. Early 2021 Lisa earned her PhD (University of Queensland, School of Architecture) with her dissertation ‘Communities of faith: Modern church architecture in Queensland, 1945-1977,’ offering a fresh perspective on modernist church architecture. 

Nicholas Desjardins is a UQ History Honours graduate. His thesis investigated the history of Spiritualism in Queensland, as part of his broader interests in post-Enlightenment religious and intellectual history.

Geoff Ginn is a historian at UQ, with interests in British history, Queensland history, urban history, and heritage studies. He has been active in various public history endeavours, and a Board member at the State Library of Queensland and Queensland Museum.

Josh Gorringe is a Mithaka Traditional Owner from far South West Queensland, and the General Manager of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation with strategic and operational responsibility for staff, projects, and stakeholder engagement.

Shawnee Gorringe is an emerging cultural heritage practitioner, with an ongoing interest in Australian history, particularly her Mithaka ancestors, and material culture scattered through the Channel Country.

John Grimes is a historian with interests in Australian and Queensland history, the religious and mythological aspects of the Anzac legend, comparative religion and phenomenology. He has travelled widely, also visiting Anzac Cove, Türkiye. He holds an honours degree in History from UQ and a PhD in Religious Studies from Charles Sturt University.

Gordon Grimwade is a North Queensland-based historical archaeologist with interests in regional history, Chinese Australian heritage and religious material culture. He is a former member of the Queensland Heritage Council and State Library John Oxley Fellow. Gordon is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and member of the Professional Historians Association (Qld).

Tracey Hough is a Director of the Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation and was co-curator (with Shawnee Gorringe) of the 2022 Kirrenderri: Heart of the Channel Country exhibition at the UQ Anthropology Museum.

Marcus Harmes teaches pathways programs and legal history at the University of Southern Queensland and researches into the history of English and Australian religion and popular culture.

Jennifer Harrison is a research adviser at the UQ School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry. With broad historical interests, in recent times she has concentrated on Moreton Bay’s early days and people, Queensland immigration patterns especially reflecting the Irish contribution, and Anglican diocesan history. 

John Harrison is a journalist and academic. His research interests include the history of religious thought and practice in Queensland, and in particular the history of Christian missions in Cape York.

Robert Hogg completed his PhD in 2007 and is the author of Men and Manliness on the Frontier: Queensland and British Columbia in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Between 2002 and 2020 he taught numerous history courses at the University of Queensland, Griffith University, and Australian Catholic University.

Elverina Johnson is a Gunggandji woman from Yarrabah, Far North Queensland, and a multidisciplinary artist in the visual arts, music, performance and fashion design through her brand PINKFISH. Building on her community work and standing, she is completing a thesis on Aboriginal Christianity and visual expression as part of the Queensland Atlas of Religion project.

Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian and Global History at UQ. His research interests are in Southeast Asian cultural, religious, political, and intellectual history. He has spent over twelve years teaching and researching in Southeast Asia.

Steve Kemp is a Ghungalu elder, from Woorabinda in Central Queensland. He has worked to convey Ghungalu cultural knowledge through school programs and community initiatives over many years, including through an Indigenous-led enterprise, Yarbun Creations (yarbuncreations.com.au).

Ray Kerkhove is a historian associated with USQ. His expertise is in site histories, material culture and conflict history – mostly Indigenous but also of lesser-known faiths. Ray’s doctoral thesis was on the Meher Baba movement. He has published several articles and booklets on this movement and on the religious history of the Sunshine Coast region.

Charles (John) McGrath is a retired academic who has interests in religious history and museums. He is a trustee of Bundaberg’s Hinkler Hall of Aviation, a museum dedicated to the memory of record-breaking solo aviator Bert Hinkler.

Richard Martin is a cultural anthropologist at UQ. He has published a range of scholarly articles about native title, cultural heritage, and Australian history and culture, and is the author of The Gulf Country: The story of people and place in outback Queensland. He has also authored expert reports and given evidence in the Federal Court of Australia about Australian Indigenous native title claims.

Bill Metcalf holds honorary positions at UQ and Griffith University, and is the author or editor of 12 books, plus 44 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters and magazine articles. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award by the Communal Studies Association (USA), and the John Douglas Kerr Medal by the Royal Historical Society of Queensland.

Julia Mortensen is an early career historian. She is currently living on Thursday Island where she is working as a genealogist for Community and Personal Histories within the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships. Her interests include urban, transnational, and cultural history.

Raymond Reddicliffe is an Honorary Research Fellow at UQ, and Uniting Church Minister in active retirement. His research interests include Church Leadership Selection and Training, Professional Supervision of Ministers, Institutional Health Care Chaplaincy, and Review processes of Congregational life and mission.

Shaina Rother is a UQ School of Journalism graduate, currently working as a media and communications officer at the  Queensland Council of Social Service in Brisbane. She is working on a history of the Jewish community on the Gold Coast, using research and interviews  to shed light on the community’s post-war experiences, contributions, and challenges.

Robin Sullivan is an honorary historian at UQ, with interests in the history of Irish Australians, monuments, trade unions and gender. She is Honorary Historian for the Queensland Irish Association.

Rodney Sullivan is an honorary historian at UQ, with interests in the history of Irish Australians, monuments, the Philippines, and trade unions. He is Honorary Historian for the Queensland Irish Association.

Jessica White is an independent researcher with interests in modern yoga studies and diasporic religious communities. Her MPhil thesis described issues of community, identity, and faith among the diverse attendees of a Hindu temple in Brisbane. She has worked with a number of research groups at UQ, including the Queensland Atlas of Religion and the Centre for Digital Cultures and Societies.

Ryan Williams is a Senior Lecturer in Studies in Religion at UQ. His current research interests include religion and secularity, contemporary Islam, and religion and science.