Dr Steven Cooke is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage at Deakin University.

Steve is a cultural and historical geographer with interests in heritage, memory and identity, particularly the management of dark or dissonant heritage, Holocaust museums, memorials and sites, and Historic Urban Landscapes. He the course director for the cultural heritage and museum studies program at Deakin.  He is also currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Winchester in the UK.