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Included in a Australian Research Council (Australia) Grant via agreement with the University of Melbourne for the project "Indigenous Storytelling and the Living Archive of Aboriginal Knowledge." The project is for 3 years. (2020)
Faculty Fellowship (2019), Smithsonian Institution’s Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology (SIMA)
Edmonds, F., Thorner, S., Clarke, M., Clarke, K., Rogers, K., Rogers, R., Turner, O., Chenhall, R., Mahoney, M., Leane, J., Croom, A., Senior, K. (2025). Mela Mijimit, Dalimbat Mela Stori (We Together, We Telling Our Story)1: Exploring a Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge – A Work in Progress …Archives & Manuscripts 510, p. e11043. doi: 10.37683/asa.v52.11043.
Clarke, Maree, Mahoney, Mitch, Thorner, Sabra, and Edmonds, Fran (2025). Trees as Living Archives. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 25(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2025.2513094.
Thorner, S. (2024) Together with co-editors Frances Edmonds and Maree Clarke, Assistant Professor Sabra Thorner has a brand new book out. ngargee // coming together to celebrate: Southeast Australian Aboriginal Art is a field-defining volume celebrating contemporary artists, intercultural collaborations, and Indigenous sovereignty.
Thorner, S. (2023) “Indigenous Media: Currents of Engagement” (with K. Dowell and G. Zamorano). In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York: Oxford University Press.
Thorner, S. (2022) “Bringing a Living Archive to Life.” Pursuit (online magazine of the University of Melbourne). With F. Edmonds and J. Leane. Available: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/bringing-a-living-archive-to-life.
Thorner, S. 2022. "Being Called to Action: Contemporary Museum Ethnographies." (Author of this introductory article and Guest Editor of Special Issue) Materiality, Belonging, and the Activation of Difference, Special Issue of Museum Anthropology 45(1). Online/Early view. DOI: 10.1111/muan.12243.
Thorner, S. (2020) “The Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art,” (a photo-essay, with M. Clarke). AnthroVision, the online journal of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA), Volume 8, Issue 1, Paolo Favero, ed. Launched August 31, 2022; available: http://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/6647.
Edmonds, F., Khan, R., Thorner, S., and M. Clarke. 2020. "The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Through Collaborative Art-Making." REG/AC: Revista de Estudios Globales & Arte Contemporáneo // Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art, 7(1): 267-311.
