Rate My Professor Adele Nye

Associate Professor Adele Nye serves in the School of Education at the University of New England, Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education, Master of Letters, and Doctor of Philosophy, all obtained from the University of New England. Throughout her career at UNE, she has progressed to the role of Associate Professor and was previously a Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies in Education. As a member of the Education Contexts research group, she supervises Higher Degree by Research students in history education, new materialism, posthumanism, and feminist poststructuralism. Her teaching focuses on qualitative research methods for pre-service teachers.

Adele Nye's research interests encompass historical thinking, education and practice, teaching and learning in higher education, and school communities in crisis. Current projects include post-qualitative and new materialist approaches to history education and museum exhibitions, and rebuilding communities affected by major fires and floods in rural Australian schools. She has co-edited significant volumes such as Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences (Springer, 2021) with Jennifer Clark, which addresses the urgency of historical work in precarious times, building on their earlier Teaching the Discipline of History in an Age of Standards (Springer, 2018). Other key publications include "The affective entanglements of the visitor experience at Holocaust sites and museums" (2023) in Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums; "Foundling museums: exhibition design and the intersection of the vital materiality of foundling tokens and affective visitor experience" (2023) in Museum Management and Curatorship; contributions to post-qualitative research practices (2021); and earlier works like "Surprise Me!: The (im)possibilities of agency and creativity within the standards framework of history education" (2017) in Educational Philosophy and Theory, and explorations of historical thinking in higher education (2009-2011) in Studies in Higher Education and History Australia. Additionally, she contributed to the Australian Learning and Teaching Council project on Historical Thinking in Higher Education (2009).