Keir Reeves is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cultural Heritage Unit in the History Department at the University of Melbourne. His doctoral dissertation was on the Chinese on the Mount Alexander diggings. He has recently been awarded an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to undertake research into the history and cultural landscapes of central Victoria and to consider the international significance of the region in terms of its heritage values. His research interests include mining history, regional history, Chinese-Australian history, Asian history and heritage, heritage studies and cultural landscape analysis. He has lectured in goldfields history and Chinese-Australian heritage for the past three years.