Rate My Professor Catherine Keys

Keys' research explores the social and cultural properties of architectural space, with key interests in the transfer of architectural knowledge from First Nations people to migrant settlers on Northern Australia's frontiers, particularly in vernacular architectures of Queensland, and cultural histories of the Queensland House addressing issues of culture, gender, and race. Her publications include the co-authored book 'Early planning utopias: a feminist critique' (Anthem Press, 2025) with Dorina Pojani and Rory Little; book chapters such as 'Mobilising Indigenous agency through cultural sustainability in architecture: are we there yet?' (2018) with Carroll Go-Sam and 'Colonial Building at Red Cliff Point in the 1820s' (2025); and journal articles including 'Redressing the absence of military blockhouses and forts in ‘origin theories’ for the elevated house' (Fabrications, 2025), 'Nervous nation: fear, conflict and narratives of fortified domestic architecture on the Queensland frontier' (Aboriginal History, 2021) with Heather Burke et al., 'House elevation and the British military settlement of Port Essington in Northern Australia' (ABE Journal, 2023), 'The emergence of an architectural anthropology in Aboriginal Australia: the work of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre' (Architectural Theory Review, 2017) with Paul Memmott, and 'Designing hospitals for Australian conditions: The Australian Inland Mission's cottage hospital, Adelaide House, 1926' (The Journal of Architecture, 2016). Her scholarship diversifies architectural histories by integrating Indigenous perspectives and colonial entanglements.