Dr Sue Silberberg (https://silberberg-consulting.com) is a historian and heritage consultant. She is the author of A Networked Community: Jewish Melbourne in the Nineteenth Century (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2020). Her research focuses on the colonial Australian Jewish experience, particularly the familial lineages, social networks, and transnational connections that shaped New World societies. She has contributed entries to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Australian Women’s Register. She has published research in History Australia and International Migrations in the Victorian Era (Leiden: Brill, 2018), as well as curating a dozen exhibitions. Additionally, she has undertaken commissioned historical research for private clients. Her career spans research, cultural administration, and heritage management, including positions at the University of Melbourne’s eScholarship Research Centre, General Manager at Arts Victoria, and Director of the Cultural Festival for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Earlier, she worked as a curator and museum director in London and Victoria, specialising in historic buildings. Her work continues to advance scholarship at the intersection of history, heritage, and community.