Elise is a non-Indigenous lecturer in Indigenous Australian studies. Since 2013, Elise has been engaged in coordinating, teaching, and developing subjects in Critical Indigenous Studies, Criminal Justice, Australian and International history, Academic Literacy, and Research Methodologies.

Elise’s research focuses are critical Indigenous studies, Australian history, and criminal justice. Her doctoral thesis investigated narratives of child death in late-modern rural Australia, to examine representations of rurality, violence and crime, the enactment of institutional silencing and distancing, and public constructions of Indigeneity. This thesis presented the first scholarly historical investigation into the Bowraville murders, which focused on the impact of institutional responses and counter narratives of Indigenous resistance.

Elise is passionate about teaching, learning, and engaging students in rural and regional areas.