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People @ CAPSTRANS

Becoming Affiliated with CAPSTRANS

CAPSTRANS encourages staff and students at the Universities of Wollongong and Newcastle to become affiliated with our research activities. For information about joining CAPSTRANS at the University of Newcastle, please contact the Newcastle node Director .

The following academic staff currently engaged in the research activity of CAPSTRANS at Newcastle. Click on staff names below to be directed to their respective research profiles.

Director

Professor Linda Connor (02) 4921 5332 Linda.Connor@newcastle.edu.au

Administrative Assistant

Natacha Hes (02) 4921 7034 Natacha.Hes@newcastle.edu.au

Current Academic Staff Members

Dr Alex Broom (Deputy Director) (02) 4921 5919 Alexander.Broom@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Michael Goddard (02) 4348 4053 Michael.Goddard@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Victoria Haskins (02) 4921 5221 Victoria.Haskins@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Terry Leahy (02) 4921 6106 Terry.Leahy@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Barry Morris (02) 4921 5961 Barry.Morris@newcastle.edu.au

Ass/Prof Pam Nilan (02) 4921 5912 Pamela.Nilan@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Shigeru Sato Shigeru.Sato@newcastle.edu.au

Current Research Associates

Dr Inta Allegritti Inta.Allegritti@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Kim Gray Kim.Gray@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Nick Higginbotham Nick.Higginbotham@newcastle.edu.au

Sonia Freeman Sonia.Freeman@newcastle.edu.au

Dr Santi Rozario RozarioS@cardiff.ac.uk

Professor Geoffrey Samuel SamuelG@cardiff.ac.uk

Current Postgraduate Students

Hedda Askland Hedda.Askland@newcastle.edu.au

Caroline Haksoro Campbell Caroline.Campbell@studentmail.newcastle.edu.au

Emma Kirby Emma.Kirby@newcastle.edu.au

Lena Rodriguez Lena.Rodriguez@newcastle.edu.au

Steven Threadgold Steven.Threadgold@newcastle.edu.au

Recent Postgraduate Successes

Hedda Askland was successful in obtaining a Commonwealth Government funded International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, and is enrolled in a PhD program with the title: East Timorese in Melbourne: Community and Identity in a Time of Political Unrest in Timor Leste.

Caroline Haksoro Campbell (PhD thesis titled: An Anthropological Analysis of Social and Cultural Transformation in East Java ) will submit her thesis in 2008.

Nazrina Zuryani was successful in obtaining AUSAID funding (PhD thesis titled: Community Development, Sustainable Agriculture and Women in Organisations - An International project of Coastal North Bali in Indonesia ) supervised by Terry Leahy. Nazrina successfully completed her PhD in 2007.

Caroline Holstrom Hoban was successful in obtaining AUSAID funding (PhD thesis titled: Gallery Display: Aboriginal Art and the construction of Aboriginality) supervised by Andrew Lattas.

Kim Gray was successful in obtaining AUSAID funding (PhD thesis titled: Cultural Identity in relation to Inter Country Adoptees). Kim successfully completed her PhD in 2007.

Sharifah Zahhura Syed Abdullah (PhD thesis titled: Cultural Rules and Patterning in Food Systems and Nutrition of Orang Asli Temiar in Peninsular Malaysia) co-supervised by Pam Nilan.

Recent CAPSTRANS Graduates

Hedda Askland graduated with a Master of Social Science (Research) in May 2005, for a thesis titled: Young East Timorese in Australia: Becoming Part of a New Culture and the Impact of Refugee Experiences on Identity and Belonging. Available online.

Dr Mary Ida Bagus was awarded her PhD in 2006, for a thesis titled: From the Margins of History: A Long Babad of Jembrana, Bali

Past CAPSTRANS Research Associates

Dr Andrew Lattas, CAPSTRANS associate until 2007 has relocated to Bergen University.

Dr Anne Marie Hilsdon, a CAPSTRANS research associate from October 2003 to January 2005, relocated to Curtin University but continues to publish the outcomes of CAPSTRANS-sponsored research.

Dr Lynda Newland has relocated to the University of the South Pacific in March 2005 and also continues to publish on CAPSTRANS-related research.