Angelique Stastny graduated with a PhD from The University of Melbourne in July 2018 and in 2019, she was a Teaching and Research Fellow at Aix-Marseille University in France. Her doctoral candidature was supported by a Top-Up Scholarship from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE), and her research was in CHE's Shaping the Modern Program led by Professor Stephanie Trigg. She received her BA in English Studies and her MA (by research) in History from the Université Paris Diderot, France. Her Masters thesis focused on ‘Immigration Policies and Intergroup Relations in Decolonizing Aotearoa New Zealand (1971–1991)’ and on ‘Black Power in the South Pacific: Urban Indigenous Activism in South-East Australia and Auckland (New Zealand) since 1969’. Her research interest is on Indigenous politics, settler colonial societies, education and decolonisation.
