Meet the WAMMERS - Anna Doukakis
A Collision of Histories
New to NMC in 2011, Anna Doukakis is a PhD candidate of the University of New South Wales, dividing her time between Sydney and Canberra. Her academic studies – in addition to a keen interest in hiking – have taken her on a number of international travels. Recently and in particular she visited Malaysia, a portion of whose Colonial history forms the basis for her research, and in preparation for which she also learnt Malay! Anna’s sojourns overseas and Greek heritage have given her a sympathy for multiculturalism and a decidedly global outlook. Her fondness for Australia’s uniquely coloured landscape, however, is part of her motivation for maintaining her base here.
Possessing a varied personal musical history, including some recent touring with brass bands, Anna was drawn to WAM for the opportunity to build on her existing skills as a writer and interviewer while connecting this to – and indeed drawing from – her musical background and continued music-based recreational pursuits. A historian by trade and academic by design, she is looking forward to exploring new realms of investigation. Favourite composers include Shostakovich and Phillip Glass, the latter of whom has been known to provide the backdrop to her thesis-writing (from which she is this fortnight enjoying a not-entirely-reluctant break).
Anna spends much of her time reading to inform her academic cause but has been known to throw the occasional extravagant dinner party, for which she cooks up a sumptuous storm. She is joined at NMC this year by her sisters Felicity and Julia, a violinist and violist respectively.
by Jennifer Mills