Dr Elisa deCourcy (b. 1986) is an art historian, specialising in the nineteenth-century history of photography. Between 2020 and 2023 she lead an Australian Research Council project Capturing Foundational Australian Photography in a Globalising World, based at the Australian National University. This project combined archival research, collaboration with artists using historic photographic processes, and consultation with First Nations Communities to tell richer stories about the beginnings of photography in colonial Australia. Dr deCourcy is co-author with Martyn Jolly of the 2021 publication Empire, Early Photography and Spectacle: the global career of showman daguerreotypist J.W. Newland.
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