I’m Nicole Dados, academic and researcher in history and social science. I have previously published as Nour Nicole Dados. I’m passionate about documenting and sharing lost and neglected histories from the Levant and Anatolia, the regions from which I draw my ancestry, family history and inspiration. I write to bring to life the shared histories beneath the vast geographies of our collective pasts.  

In 2021, I made a career transition into archival and family history studies and information management, establishing the Anatolikis historical document database, conducting family history research by consultation, and maintaining a historical research blog.

I have completed a Graduate Diploma in Family History through the University of Tasmania. I am enrolled in a Master of Information Science through Open Universities. I am a member of the Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG), the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), and the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA).

My academic work

Between 2004 and 2011, I published and taught in historical and cultural studies and social science, while completing my PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney. My thesis, titled “Lost and found in Beirut: Memory and place in narratives of the city”, explored the urban environment of the famed Levantine city through Beirut’s history and cultural production.

After completing my PhD, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the social sciences, participating in several funded research projects while pursuing independent research into the work conditions of contract knowledge workers in the university sector. This culminated in the publication of my report “Precarious Work, Invisible Labour”, in 2020, at the height of COVID pandemic. For more about my academic publications see here.

The Anatolikis Family History database (formerly Levanatolia) was launched in November 2021. Anatolikis is an index of historical archival documents of the Rüm/Greek communities of the Levant and Anatolia. It remains under development.

Please contact me directly if you would like me to assist you with paid family history research.