Skye Krichauff

Skye Krichauff is an ethno-historian who combines the methodologies of history and anthropology. She is interested in colonial cross-cultural relations, the relationship between history and memory, and how societies live with historical injustices (in particular how Australians live with the enduring legacies of colonialism). She has convened courses on Australian history, colonial history and Aboriginal-settler history at Flinders University, worked as a history researcher for an Aboriginal Community organisation and as an expert ethnohistorian for South Australian Native Title Services.

Skye is currently employed as an ARC Research Fellow on the linkage project 'Reconciling with the Frontier'. She is also the President of the South Australian History Council, co-editor of Studies in Oral History (the journal of the Australian Oral History Association) and employed as an oral historian for the Indigenous Oral Health Unit (based in the University of Adelaide's School of Dentistry). She was awarded the University of Adelaide's School of Humanities Early Career Researcher Prize for 2020.

Her article 'Recognising Country: tracing stories of wounded spaces in mid-northern South Australia' won the Australian Historical Association's inaugural Ann Curthoy's prize and was published in History Australia in 2020. Her first book Nharangga Wargunni Bugi-Buggillu: A journey through Narungga History (Wakefield Press, 2011) examines cross-cultural relations on nineteenth century Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. Her second book Memory, Place and Aboriginal‒Settler History (Anthem Press, 2017) is a place centred ethnography which investigates the absence of Aboriginal people in settler descendants’ historical consciousness.