People
Directors
Emeritus Professor John Maynard
Director
Fellow Australian Social Sciences Academy, Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities
Emeritus Professor John Maynard is a Worimi Aboriginal man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He has held several major positions and served on numerous prominent organizations and committees including, Deputy Chairperson of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. He was the recipient of the Aboriginal History (Australian National University) Stanner Fellowship 1996, the New South Wales Premiers Indigenous History Fellow 2003, Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 2004, University of Newcastle Researcher of the Year 2008 and 2012. In 2014 he was elected a member of the prestigious Australian Social Sciences Academy. He gained his PhD in 2003, examining the rise of early Aboriginal political activism. He has worked with and within many Aboriginal communities, urban, rural and remote. Professor Maynard’s publications have concentrated on the intersections of Aboriginal political and social history, and the history of Australian race relations. He is the author of several books, including Aboriginal Stars of the Turf, Fight for Liberty and Freedom, The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe, Aborigines and the Sport of Kings, True Light and Shade and Living with the Locals.
- T: +61 (0) 4921 7408
- E: john.maynard@newcastle.edu.au
Professor Victoria Haskins
Co-Director, ARC Fellow
President of Academic Senate, CH239
- T: + 61 (0) 2 4921 5221
- E: victoria.haskins@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Kit Candlin
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Kit.Candlin@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49216413
Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Nancy.Cushing@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4055
Dr Jean Harkins
Conjoint Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Jean.Harkins@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5179
Conjoint Professor Peter Hempenstall
Conjoint Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Peter.Hempenstall@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5362
Associate Professor Daniela Heil
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Daniela.Heil@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6790
Dr Marguerite Johnson
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science (Classics)
- T: +61 (0) 432 104 884
- E: marguerite.johnson@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Raymond Kelly
Deputy Head of Institute
Indigenous Education and Research
- Raymond.Kelly@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49217433
Associate Professor Amy Maguire
Associate Professor
Newcastle Law School
- T: +61 (0) 2 4921 5374
- E: Amy.Maguire@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Julie McIntyre
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Julie.Mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7029
Associate Professor Sara C Motta
Head of Politics and International Relations Group
Newcastle Business School
- T: +61 (0) 2 4921 5020
- E: sara.c.motta@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Una Rey
Lecturer
School of Creative Industries
- T: +61 (0) 2 4921 6238
- E: Una.Rey@newcastle.edu.au
Professor Lyndall Ryan AM FAHA
Professor
School of Humanities & Social Science
- T: +61 (0) 400598450
- E: lyndall.ryan@newcastle.edu.au
Associate Professor Kate Senior
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Kate.Senior@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49217078
Dr Kevin Sobel-Read
Senior Lecturer
Newcastle Law School
- Kevin.Sobel-Read@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 6613
Dr Hedda Askland
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Hedda.Askland@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7067
Dr Paul Hodge
Senior Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- Paul.Hodge@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49215092
Laureate Professor Robert Sanson-Fisher
Distinguished Laureate Professor/Executive Director, CIFAL Newcastle
School of Medicine and Public Health|Office of the DVC Global Engagement & Partnerships
- Rob.Sanson-Fisher@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 40420713
Dr Simon Weaving
Senior Lecturer
School of Creative Industries
- Simon.Weaving@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 43494591
Professor Sarah Wright
Future Fellow
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
- Sarah.Wright@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7157
Cara Cross
Thesis: Our land, our healer: Exploring the use of sulphur, sulphate minerals and sulphate clays within Aboriginal pharmacopoeia.
Srishti Guha
Thesis: The Masking and Unmasking of British Colonial Advertisements: A Comparative Study of the Discourse of Advertisements in the Indian Colonial and Australian Settler Societies, 1860 – 1950.
Ashlen Francisco
Thesis: A History of the Transition from Protection to Welfare in NSW 1939-1940.
Padraic Gibson
Thesis: The Communist Party of Australia and the Fight for Aboriginal Rights 1921 – 1934.
Jesse Hodgetts
Thesis: Traditional Aboriginal Language and Song from Original Speakers and Songmen in NSW.
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!
Pearl Nunn
Thesis: Visible and Vocal: Women of Colour in Eighteenth Century Britain.
Jennifer Rumbel
Thesis: Sacred Stories – Sacred Spaces: A Journey into Discovery, Truth & Right Relations
Truman Smith
Thesis: "Unprovoked Barbarity": Kidnapping on Queensland’s Frontier, 1859 – 1897.
Marlene Thompson
Thesis: Balwalanga Bhulungs: We are Strong Women.
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
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".
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
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
Associate Professor John Robert Evans
Director, Undergraduate Indigenous Program
University of Sydney
Professor Françoise Dussart
Department of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Connecticut
Professor Penny Edmonds
School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education
University of Tasmania
Jackie Huggins
B.A. Hons (UQ), Dip.Ed. (Flinders)
Doctor of the University Honoris Causa, AM, FAHA
Professor Emerita Marilyn Lashley
Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science
Howard University, Washington D.C
Dr. Paul McKenzie-Jones
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta CA
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
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
Professor Atsushi Nobayashi
Center for Cultural Resource Studies
National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka Japan
Dr Patricia O'Brien
Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of History
Australian National University
Dr Naomi Parry
Adjunct Researcher School of Humanities
University of Tasmania and Accredited Member Professional Historians' Association
Dr Venetria K Patton
Director, African American Studies & Research Center
Purdue College of Liberal Arts
Associate Professor Theresa Runstedtler
Associate Professor, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences
American University, Washington D.C
Scott Manning Stevens
Director, Native American Studies
The College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, NY
Terry Snowball
Repatriation Coordinator
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Suitland, MD 20746
Dr Ronald Stephens
Professor of African American Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Purdue College of Liberal Arts
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
Michael Williams
Independent Consultant Director
University of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies unit, 1992-2010
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