People
Directors
Emeritus Professor John Maynard
Director
Fellow Australian Social Sciences Academy, Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities
- T: +61 (0) 4921 7408
- E: john.maynard@newcastle.edu.au
Professor Victoria Haskins
Co-Director
President of Academic Senate, CH239
- T: +61 (0) 4921 7408
- E: victoria.haskins@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Jacqueline Wright
Research Assistant
Jacqueline Wright has over twenty years’ experience in the creative, publishing, educational and media fields. She has lecturing, mentoring, writing, editing, researching and broadcasting experience, working at institutions such as Magabala Books and ABC Kimberley. She is currently supporting HDR students both academically and administratively and participating in an ARC Discovery Project study of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board at the Purai Global Indigenous History Centre. She is also an Adjunct Fellow at Curtin University, WA, where she was awarded a DCA in the School of Communication and Culture Studies exploring the ethics of representation of Indigenous peoples in works of fiction. Her debut novel Red Dirt Talking, published by Fremantle Press, won the 2010 TAG Hungerford Award and was long-listed for the 2013 Miles Franklin and Dobbie Literary Awards. It was followed by over 15 creative, creative non-fiction and essays in publications/sites with strong national/international reputations such as; Radio National, Griffith Review, Fairfax, Westerly, Margaret River, Fremantle and Currency Presses. As a teacher/linguist she has also consulted and taught in Kimberley and Pilbara Aboriginal bi-lingual schools and worked as an associate in numerous research teams across the educational sector. She was recently short-listed in the 2021 Penguin Literary Award for her second (unpublished) novel.
- T: +61 2 4921 7408
- E: jacqui.wright@newcastle.edu.au
Dr Kit Candlin
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Kit.Candlin@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 0400717044
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
Associate Professor Tamara Young
Associate Professor
Newcastle Business School
- Tamara.Young@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5804
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.
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.
Srishti Guha
Thesis: Gaze Returned: The Politics of Colonial Visual Culture and Iconography in India and Australia 1860 – 1950.
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!
Dr Marlene Longbottom
Thesis: Balwalwanga bhulungs: We are strong women.
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
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
Thesis: "Unprovoked Barbarity": Kidnapping on Queensland’s Frontier, 1859 – 1897.
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
Lecturer
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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