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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.


Thorner, S., F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, K. Thorpe, R. Khan, and S. Huebner (2019). “The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making.” Mapping Meaning 3: 38-63. Available: .


Thorner, S., Rive, L., Dallwitz, J., and Inyika, J. (2019). “Never Giving Up: Negotiating, Culture-Making, and the Infinity of the Archive.” In Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 18. Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 263-284.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.


Thorner, S. (2019) “The Photograph as Archive: Crafting Contemporary Koorie Culture,” Journal of Material Culture 24(1): 22-47. 


Thorner, S. (2018) “Maree’s Backyard: Intercultural Collaborations for Indigenous Sovereignty” (with F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, and P. Balla), Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities: Dispersal, Damage, and Resurgence, special issue of Oceania 88(3): 269-291, Melinda Hinkson and Eve Vincent, eds. 


Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the ÓűÂţɬ Art Museum on April 7, 2022.  This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316).


Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the ÓűÂţɬ Art Museum on “The Afterlives of Objects” on November 7, 2019.


Timmons, N. (2023). Constellating Trans Activist Histories. Graduate History Review, 12, 188-200. https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321302.


Townsley, E. “The Space of Opinion:  Intellectuals, Media, and the Public Sphere.” (with Ron Jacobs). New York: Oxford University Press. 2011


Townsley, E. “Contexts of Cultural Diffusion: A Case-study of “Public Intellectual” Debates in English Canada” (with Neil McLaughlin), Canadian Review of Sociology / La SociĂ©tĂ© canadienne de sociologie 48(4):341-368. (2011)