Dr Kirsty Gillespie
Areas of expertise
- Anthropology 1601
- Musicology And Ethnomusicology 360306
- Linguistics 4704
- Language Studies 4703
- Pacific Peoples Culture, Language And History 4513
Research interests
- Pacific languages
- Music
- Intangible cultural heritage
- Applied ethnomusicology
- Museum studies
Biography
Kirsty joined CHL in November 2022 as a research fellow on the project 'Modelling Pacific Creole Languages'.
Kirsty has been conducting research on aspects of Pacific culture since 2003. Her doctoral thesis, a study of the musical practices of the Duna people of Hela Province, PNG, was awarded by the ANU in 2008. The research was subsequently published in the book 'Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea' (ANU Press, 2010).
From 2011-2015 Kirsty was a Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland (UQ). During her time at UQ Kirsty worked on a cultural heritage program in the Lihir Islands of PNG in the context of large-scale gold mining.
Prior to returning to ANU, Kirsty was Senior Curator in Anthropology at the Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, a joint appointment with James Cook University, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Southbank Brisbane campus of the Queensland Museum.
Publications
- Gillespie, K & San Roque, L 2011, 'Music and Language in Duna Pikono', in Alan Rumsey & Don Niles (ed.), Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands: Studies in Form, Meaning, and Sociocultural Context, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 49-63.
- Gillespie, K 2010, Steep Slopes: Music and change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, ANU ePress, Canberra.
- Gillespie, K 2009, '"Behind Every Tree"?: Ethnomusicology in Papua New Guinea', in Elizabeth Mackinlay, and Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and M Barney (ed.), Musical Islands: Exploring connections between Music, Place and Research, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 20-33.
- Gillespie, K & Taylor, T 2009, 'On identity-contemporary music research in the asia pacific region: Introduction', The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 75-79.
- Gillespie, K 2007, 'Laip Senis: Music and Encounter in a Papua New Guinean Community', Research in Anthropology & Linguistics, vol. 7, no. 2007, pp. 69-80.
