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Eli Branagh (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Discipline of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is writing a history of three LGBTQ+ community archives that emerged in the late-twentieth century: the Australian Queer Archives (Melbourne, Australia), the ArQuives (Toronto, Canada), and the Hall-Carpenter Archives (London, Britain).
His research interests include twentieth-century histories of sexuality and activism, archive studies, and critical theory. His work often draws on critical theory to write histories of activism outside of increasingly co-opted and normative terms like ‘community’, ‘inclusion’, and ‘diversity’.
He was awarded the University Medal in History for his Master of Research thesis, which was a queer biography of Australia’s first gay counselling service ‘Phone-A-Friend’.