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Staff and their Research Interests

Please note that not all Anthropology staff at the ANU are listed below.

Altman, Professor Jon: Economic development and economic policy issues, land rights and native title, the engagement of Indigenous Australians with the mining, tourism, and arts and crafts industries, economic anthropology [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Attenborough, Dr Robert: Human demography, malaria epidemiology, nutrition and growth, environmental adaptation, anthropological genetics, and Biosocial anthropology. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Ballard, Dr Chris: Melanesia, Indonesia; human rights and violence; resource ownership, land rights and autonomy; cross-cultural encounters and concepts of ‘race’; agricultural transformation; relations among history, anthropology, archaeology and geography [Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS]

Boulan-Smit, Christine: Eastern Indonesia, Peru, Bolivia; social impact of mining projects, narrative and oral traditions [Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, RSPAS]

Brady, Dr Maggie: Indigenous Australia; health, diet and lifestyle, the role of primary health care services in alcohol interventions, and complementary healing strategies. [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Carruthers, Dr Ashley: Vietnam, Vietnamese diaspora, cultural globalization, transnational migration, deterritorialized nation-building, diaspora, exile, media, consumption, multiculturalism [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Chapman, Dr Adam: ethnomusicology, Lao vocal music, transnational production and consumption of music across the Lao diaspora; the impact of digital technologies on music making and consumption [Centre for Cross Cultural Research].

Dennis, Dr Simone:  Phenomenological intersections with anthropology, especially in the areas of food and eating, drugs and alcohol and music; anthropology of human-animal relationships; anthropology of migration, memory, fortetting and remembering, and movement, especially among Persian women in Australia; human relationships to place and environment.  Current ethnographic area of interest:  Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.  [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Edmunds, Dr Mary: the anthropology of Aboriginal Australia; native title; the cross cultural; modernisation, globalisation, and social change; human rights, the role of international instruments, and UN World Conferences [Centre for Cross Cultural Research].

Ernst, Dr Thomas: Melanesia, Australia; social and cultural theory, comparative cosmology, working class culture, personhood, Kleinian psychoanalytic theory and its relevance for anthropology [School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics]

Eves, Dr Richard: Melanesian religion and society; Christianity; colonialism and colonial fiction in the Pacific; anthropology of development; medical anthropology; theories of the body and embodiment; masculinity; HIV/AIDS; qualitative research methods [Gender Relations]

Ferguson, Dr Jane: Mainland Southeast Asia, Burma/Thai/Shan borderlands, Popular Culture, digital media, passenger aviation anthropology. [Centre for Asian Societies and Histories]

Filer, Dr Colin: Papua New Guinea and Melanesia; environment and development; social impact of major resource projects; national and regional resource management policies. [Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, RSPAS]

Fox, Professor James: Social organisation, oral traditions and the management of the environment in Indonesia (East and Central Java and Nusa Tenggara Timur), the comparative study of the Austronesian-speaking populations. [Director, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies]

Gardner, Dr Don: Social theory; Melanesian societies; cosmologies in historical perspective; cultural responses to material conditions. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology; on leave until 2008]

Gregory, Dr Chris: Political and economic anthropology, anthropological theory, India, Papua New Guinea, ethnographic film. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology; on leave until 2010]

Groves, Professor Colin: Human Evolution, non-human primates, animal domestication, evolutionary theory, mammalian biology. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Guinness, Dr Patrick: Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia, urban cultures, theories and practices of development, religion. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Haley, Dr Nicole: Highland New Guinea; myth and its role in systems of land ownership, the emplacement of knowledge in landscape, the social impact of mining and other resource development. [RSPAS Department]

Hamby, Dr Louise: Indigenous culture, Aboriginal Art, material culture, Arnhem Land fibre art and body adornment, specifically baskets and jewellery, museum collections and curation [School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Centre for Cross-cultural Research]

Helliwell, Dr Christine: Southeast Asia, social theory, gender, personhood and its relationship to different forms of sociality and identity, discourses of ‘development’. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Hinkson, Dr Melinda: Aboriginal Australia, history of anthropology, the anthropology of globalisation and media, visual culture, theories of culture, identity and personhood. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Research School of Humanities]

Holcombe, Dr Sarah: Indigenous Australia; social change and the inter-cultural engagement, applied anthropology, land rights and development, Indigenous governance, land tenure and succession processes. [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Jacka, Dr Tamara: Gender relations and social change in contemporary China; women in rural China; women in rural-to-urban migration; women and development; the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research; ethnography and narrative analysis. [Gender Relations]

Jolly, Professor Margaret: Feminist anthropology, illness and healing, Melanesian ethnography and the colonial history of the Pacific. [Gender Relations Centre, RSPAS]

Keen, Dr Ian: Australian Aborigines; Aboriginal land rights and native title; Arnhem Land religion and society; Kurnai social history; philosophy of social science; the politics and ethics of research. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Kipnis, Dr Andrew: Processes of subjectification; public culture; language and culture; kinship and gender; education; religion;development; postsocialist societies; China; east Asia; USA. [RSPAS Department]

Lahn, Dr Julie: Torres Strait, morality and relatedness, marine activity and resource use, Aboriginal Australia, museum collecting [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research].

Lyon, Dr Margot: Emotion and embodiment; critical medical anthropology; the social foundations of medicine; the anthropology of pharmaceuticals; globalization and socio-cultural change; Island Southeast Asia. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

MacDougall, Mr David: Ethnographic film; theoretical frameworks for visual anthropological research. [Centre for Cross Cultural Research]

Martin, Dr David: Indigenous Australia; policy implications of the engagement of Aboriginal social, political and economic systems with those of the dominant society. [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

McWilliam, Dr Andrew: Eastern Indonesian comparative ethnography; Aboriginal land tenure and cultural heritage (northern Australia); natural resources; applied anthropology in rural development. [RSPAS Department]

Merlan, Professor Francesca: Social transformation, indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture, theories of social action, organisation, and consciousness, places and place-worlds, modernity; Aboriginal Australia, Melanesia, Germany. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Montag, Ms Doreen:  Critical medical anthropology, infectious diseases, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, ethics in medical research, global health, development and health, Latin America, especially Peruvian Andes and Amazon. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Morphy, Professor Howard: Australian Aboriginal art and religion, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, visual anthropology, the history of anthropology, the relationship between museums and indigenous peoples. [Centre for Cross Cultural Research]

Morphy, Ms. Frances: Indigenous Australia: Northeastern Arnhem Land; land rights, the Indigenous art and craft industry, Australian Aboriginal languages, anthropological linguistics. [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Mosko, Professor Mark: Melanesia; symbolism; social organisation; personhood; culture change; culture theory; cross-cultural comparisons among Pacific Island societies. [RSPAS Department]

Nakamura, Dr. Fuyubi: Visual and material cultures of Asia, especially Japan; anthropology of art; critical museology; tradition and innovation in art; relationship between word and image; avant-garde and contemporary East Asian calligraphy and art; Japanese diasporas in Latin America. [Research School of Humanities]

Ottosson, Dr Åse:  Aboriginal Australia; anthropology of gender, sexuality and masculinity; intercultural theory; music anthropology; expressive cultural forms; media anthropology; politics of ethnicity and national identity.  [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Peterson, Professor Nicolas: Social organisation, economic anthropology, applied anthropology, territorial organisation, marine tenure, hunting and gathering societies, fourth world people and the state, social change and development, anthropology of photography. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Robinson, Professor Kathryn: Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; medical anthropology; technology and anxiety discourse; Australia-Asia relations. [RSPAS Department]

Rose, Dr Deborah Bird: Indigenous ecological knowledge and ethics; Indigenous and Settler landscapes in Australia and other settler societies; post-colonial possibilities for social and ecological justice. [Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies]

Rumsey, Dr Alan: Melanesia, esp. Highland New Guinea; Aboriginal Australia; discourse, language and culture, intersubjectivity, verbal art, social theory, indigenes and the state. [RSPAS Department]

Schwab, Dr Jerry: Indigenous Australia, USA, Middle East; Indigenous education and training, education policy, literacy, applied anthropology [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Smith, Ms. Diane: Australia: governance and representative structures; Indigenous engagement with the welfare state; resource development and compensation; native title and land rights; theoretical issues in policy and applied anthropology [Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research]

Tapp, Professor Nicholas: Ethnic minorities and the state; development and environment; semiology and history; transnationalism and diaspora; borderlands of Southeast Asia (northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southwest China). [RSPAS Department]

Taylor, Dr Phillip: Vietnam; urbanisation, modernity, ethnicity and identity politics; pilgrimage and popular religion; music; gender relations in East and Southeast Asia; cultural constructions of the body; political transformations in Communist systems; contemporary ethnographic practice; fieldwork methodology. [RSPAS Department]

Teaiwa, Dr Katerina:  Theory and Method for Pacific Studies, Phosphat mining in Kiribati, contemporary Pacific dance studies, cultural industries, visual ethnography.  [Faculty of Asian Studies]

Walker, Dr Andrew: Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Thailand and Laos); resource management; borders; space and place; trading and transport systems; regulation; globalisation. [Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, RSPAS]

Weiner, Dr. James: Papua New Guinea, Aboriginal Australia; language, myth, poetry, theories of interpretation, art, music, aesthetics, anthropology and resource extraction, Native Title, the politics of indigenous identity, religion and culture, anthropology and law. [Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program, RSPAS]

Winn, Dr. Phillip: Theorising sovereignty and violence; state practices and subjectivity; moral rationalities; Muslim identity and Islamic diversity; dwelling and displacement; tourism; (eastern) Indonesia; East Timor/Timor Leste; small island studies. [School of Archaeology and Anthropology]

Young, Dr. Diana: Australian Aboriginal studies, especially material culture and art; colour and materiality and the development of pattern; anthropology of space and the built environment; synaesthesia in cross cultural contexts; colour and value; Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, South Australia [Centre for Cross Cultural Research].

 

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