Elizabeth Strakosch

Dr Elizabeth Strakosch is a senior lecturer in public policy and politics at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, and is currently an Australian Research Council Early Career Research Fellow. Liz is a white settler whose work focuses on how processes and institutions of public policy relate to political relationships – especially in the context of colonialism, racism and structural violence. She is a founding codirector of the Indigenous led antiracist research centre the Institute for Collaborative Race Research, which theorises race through the lens of Indigenous sovereignty and aims to mobilise academic research for antiracist struggle, and is a member of Jewish anti-Zionist organisations.

Articles by Elizabeth Strakosch:

31 January 2025 · Racism

The QUT Symposium: holding the line against rising racism

Elizabeth Strakosch, Jordy Silverstein, Crystal McKinnon, Eugenia Flynn, Natalie Ironfield, Holly Charles, Priya Kunjan, Roj Amedi and Lina Koleilat

Last weeks's QUT Symposium met in the staunch tradition of the Brisbane Blacks, who have fought for sovereignty, land rights, liberation and an end to racial violence for decades. It was a gathering of Elders, academics, organisers and frontline community workers who speak, theorise and embody the truth about race and racism in this place. It refused to clothe itself in multicultural platitudes about tolerance, or to speak about racism only in terms of individual prejudice.