Erica Cervini teaches media writing at the University of Melbourne and is an award-winning education journalist. She was awarded her PhD on family history in 2019 and talks regularly about family history on Trevor Chappell’s show on 774 Radio Melbourne. Erica has written about her research for the Guardian and is a regular contributor to Eureka Street. She has also delivered talks on family history for community groups and delivered papers at Australian Historical Association conferences. The AHA has awarded Erica three prizes for her work. In 2021, she was one of three judges of the Family History ACT (The Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra) short story family history award. In 2018, she wrote an article for Public Record Office Victoria titled ‘Researching houses that are no longer there’.

Author email: ecervini@bigpond.com or erica.cervini@unimelb.edu.au.