People

Directors

Dr Ray Kelly

Co-Director
Deputy Head of Wollotuka Institute, Indigenous Education and Research

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Professor Kate Senior

Co-Director
Principal Research Fellow, Ngarruwan Ngadju First Peoples Health and Wellbeing Research Centre , Australian Health Services Research Institute , University of Wollongong

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Research

Emeritus Professor John Maynard

Emeritus Professor/Emeritus Professor
Indigenous Education and Research

Professor Victoria Haskins

Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Dr Kit Candlin

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Conjoint Professor Peter Hempenstall

Conjoint Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Associate Professor Daniela Heil

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Dr Marguerite Johnson

Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science (Classics)

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Associate Professor Amy Maguire

Associate Professor
Newcastle Law School

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Associate Professor Julie McIntyre

Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Associate Professor Sara C Motta

Head of Politics and International Relations Group
Newcastle Business School

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Professor Lyndall Ryan AM FAHA

Professor
School of Humanities & Social Science

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Associate Professor Heather Sharp

Associate Professor
School of Education

Dr Kevin Sobel-Read

Associate Professor
School of Law and Justice

Dr Sachiyo Tsukamoto

Honorary Associate Lecturer
Humanities and Social Science

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Associate Professor Tamara Young

Associate Professor
Newcastle Business School

Dr Paul Hodge

Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences

Dr Simon Weaving

Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci

Professor Sarah Wright

Future Fellow
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
Cara Cross

Cara Cross

Thesis: Our land, our healer: Exploring the use of sulphur, sulphate minerals and sulphate clays within Aboriginal pharmacopoeia.

Ashlen Francisco

Ashlen Francisco

Thesis: A History of the Transition from Protection to Welfare in NSW 1939-1940.

Padraic Gibson

Padraic Gibson

Thesis: The Communist Party of Australia and the Fight for Aboriginal Rights 1921 – 1934.

Srishti Guha

Srishti Guha

Thesis: Gaze Returned: The Politics of Colonial Visual Culture and Iconography in India and Australia 1860 – 1950.

Jesse Hodgetts

Jesse Hodgetts

Thesis: Traditional Aboriginal Language and Song from Original Speakers and Songmen in NSW.

Carole Y Johnson

Carole Y Johnson

Thesis: NAISDA and Indigenous urban Dance in Australia in the 1980s: A story of political activism, community development and transnational cooperation and creativity!

Dr Marlene Longbottom

Dr Marlene Longbottom

Thesis: Balwalwanga bhulungs: We are strong women.

Pearl Nunn

Pearl Nunn

Thesis: Visible and Vocal: Women of Colour in Eighteenth Century Britain.

Jennifer Rumbel

Jennifer Rumbel

Thesis: Sacred Stories – Sacred Spaces: A Journey into Discovery, Truth & Right Relations

Jane Singleton

Jane Singleton

Thesis: The work and life of Katie Langloh Parker who notated Noongahburrah/Yuwaalaraay legends and language in 19thcentury North West NSW.

Truman Smith

Truman Smith

Thesis: "Unprovoked Barbarity": Kidnapping on Queensland’s Frontier, 1859 – 1897.

Derrick Vale

Derrick Vale

Thesis: Knock 'Em Down Bowra: Looking into the Life of Aboriginal People in Bowraville from a Koori's Point of View.

Lynette Walshe

Lynette Walshe

Thesis: An epistemology of the philosophical culture and spirituality between Indigenous Language and Country. Gathering a holistic understanding of the expression "Language Belongs to Country".

Nadine Wilson

Nadine Wilson

Thesis: Heart of Country - A history of the Worimi Nation and the Myall Lakes region.

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Professor Pal Ahluwalia

Vice-Chancellor President Professor Pal Ahluwalia
The University of the South Pacific

Dr Laurie Bamblett

Co-director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Australian National University

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Professor Swapna Banerjee

Director, Research and Academic Programs

Jumbunna Inst for Indigenous Education & Research. Director, SIC - Strengthening Indigenous Communities. Core Member, SIC - Strengthening Indigenous Communities

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Professor Richard Chenhall

Professor in Medical Anthropology
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

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Professor Kathleen Clapham

Senior Aboriginal researcher and anthropologist
Ngarruwan Ngadju First Peoples Health and Wellbeing Research Centre, School of Medical, Indigenous and Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong

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Dr Rosie Cox

Professor of Geography, Department of Geography
Environment and Development Studies

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Dr Daphne Daniels

Dr Daphne Daniels

Chair, Strongbala Pipul Wanbala Bois Komiti (Strong People One Voice Committee), Deputy Chair, Yugul Mangi Development Aboriginal Corporation, Chair, Family Violence Prevention Working Group
Ngukurr Community

Professor Françoise Dussart

Department of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Connecticut

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Dr Frances Edmonds

Senior Research Fellow
School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne

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Professor Penny Edmonds

Dean of Research & Matthew Flinders Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Flinders University

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Associate Professor John Robert Evans

Director, Undergraduate Indigenous Program
University of Sydney

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Dr Gary Foley

Senior Lecturer, Moondani Balluk
Victoria University

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Professor Valerie Harwood

Professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Education
Sydney School of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney

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Ms Sekai Holland

Zimbabwean Government Co-Minister of State for National Healing

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Ms Jackie Huggins

Ms Jackie Huggins

Doctor of the University Honoris Causa, AM, FAHA
B.A. Hons (UQ), Dip.Ed. (Flinders)
Ms Angelina Joshua

Ms Angelina Joshua

Linguist
Ngukurr, Northern Territory, Australia

Professor Emerita Marilyn Lashley

Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science
Howard University, Washington D.C

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Dr Paul McKenzie-Jones

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta CA

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Professor Chris Mullard

Director Focus Consultancy, Chairman of the Bernie Grant Trust, Chairman of the London Notting Hill Festival, Patron of the Slavery memorial Trust and Honorary Consul general for the Republic of South Africa

Director Focus Consultancy, Chairman of the Bernie Grant Trust, Chairman of the London Notting Hill Festival, Patron of the Slavery memorial Trust and Honorary Consul general for the Republic of South Africa

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Mr Djon Mundine

Djon Mundine OAM, independent Bandjalung curator, writer, artist, activist

Concept-Curator 1988 Aboriginal Memorial, Winner 2020 Red Ochre Life-time Achievement Award of the Australia Council

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Dr Roger L Nichols

PhD. American History
Professor of History, University of Arizona

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Professor Atsushi Nobayashi

Center for Cultural Resource Studies
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Japan

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Dr Patricia O'Brien

Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of History
Australian National University

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Dr Naomi Parry

Lecturer
University of Tasmania and Accredited Member Professional Historians' Association

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Dr Venetria K Patton

Director, African American Studies & Research Center
Purdue College of Liberal Arts

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Ms Karen Rogers

Director, Ngukurr Arts Aboriginal Corporation
Ngukurr, Northern Territory, Australia

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Associate Professor Theresa Runstedtler

Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
American University, Washington D.C

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Scott Manning Stevens

Director, Native American Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, NY

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Terry Snowball

Terry Snowball

Repatriation Coordinator
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD 20746
Dr Ronald Stephens

Dr Ronald Stephens

Professor of African American Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Purdue College of Liberal Arts
Professor Sudebilige

Professor Sudebilige

Professor, and Dean of School of Education
Minzu University of China

Professor Quito Swan

ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellow and Professor of African Diaspora History
Howard University, Washington D.C

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Michael Williams

Michael Williams

Independent Consultant Director
University of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies unit, 1992-2010