Australian Indigenous Studies: Academic staff
Mr Philip Morrissey (School of Culture and Communication)
Philip Morrissey is the Academic Coordinator of the Faculty of Arts Australian Indigenous Studies program at the University of Melbourne. He lectures in Aboriginal cultural studies and Aboriginal writing. His principal research interest is Aboriginal urban culture. He has published on Aboriginal fine arts, film, literature, governance, sport and the public sphere.
Dr Odette Kelada (School of Culture and Communication)
Dr Odette Kelada is a lecturer in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include critical race and whiteness studies, creative arts, post-colonialism, gender studies, literature and cultural history.
Australian Indigenous Studies: Associated Academic Staff
Associated Lecturing Staff 100-181 Australian Indigenous Studies 2008/2009
Professor Ian Anderson (School of Population Health)
Professor Ian Anderson is the Director of the Centre for Health and Society and of the VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit, leading the development of an integrated health services research and community development program. Ian has written widely on issues related to Aboriginal health, identity and culture and also has a broad interest in the sociology of health and illness, related policy analysis, and theory development in the social sciences.
Dr Wayne Atkinson (School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology)
Wayne Atkinson, an Elder of the Yorta Yorta people, teaches into the Faculty of Arts Australian Indigenous Studies program, through the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology. His research and teaching focuses on Indigenous land and heritage rights discourse; history of the Indigenous political struggle; Indigenous land management practices; cultural resource management and protection; use of oral knowledge in local Indigenous history; research ethics and Australian Indigenous Studies.
Dr Mark Brown (School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology)
Mark Brown has written extensively on the subject of dangerousness and legislative measures to deal with serious offenders. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of penality, corrections and colonial penal history. His research in penal history concentrates upon British India and is concerned with colonial ideas of native criminality and the interplay between the emerging academic disciplines of criminology and anthropology and the task of colonial governance.
Dr Julie Evans (School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology)
Julie Evans' teaching and research interests coalesce around the intersections between law, race and colonialism with a particular focus on Australia's Indigenous peoples. Dr Evans is currently undertaking an ARC Discovery funded project, titled 'Beyond the pale: sovereignty, law and Indigenous Peoples', examining the history of sovereignty in relation to European expansion from 1492 to the present.
Simone Gristwood (Criminology)
Simone Gristwood is a PhD candidate. Her research area is Indigenous over-representation in the prison system. There are two central aims of the PhD research. The first, is to examine current policy and practice in a range of Victorian prisons in order to ascertain the extent to which the Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody recommendations have influenced penal policy. The second, is to understand and document Indigenous prisoners experiences of imprisonment.
Associate Professor Chris Healy (School of Culture and Communication)
Chris Healy lectures in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are cultural theory, cultural memory and cultural history, Aboriginality and cultural studies, cultural tourism, cultural politics. His most recent publications include: Cultural Studies Review (co-ed. 2002-6), South Pacific Museums (co-ed., 2006) and Forgetting Aborigines (2008).
Dr Susan Lowish (School of Culture and Communication)
Susan Lowish lectures in the area of Indigenous Australian Art, and coordinates the fieldwork subject Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory, taking students on an eighteen-day intensive fieldwork trip. She also teaches in Australian art and her current research includes the history of writing on Aboriginal Art and the history and theory of exhibitions of Aboriginal art.
Dr Mark Rose (Centre for Indigenous Education)
Mark Rose is currently Professor of Indigenous Knowledge Systems at Deakin University and has worked as the head of Higher Education at VAEAI (Victorian Aboriginal Education Association Inc.) and as the Director of the University of Melbourne's Centre for Indigenous Education. Mark is a member of the Federal Government's Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAC), which advises the Commonwealth Education Minister. He also sits on the AVCC Indigenous sub-committee and was a member of Victoria's task force on the Stolen Generations in 2002.
Associated Lecturing Staff 106-242 Aboriginal Land, Law and Philosophy 2009
Dr Ann Genovese (The Melbourne Law School)
Ann Genovese's research interests have consistently been directed to understanding the theoretical and methodological relationship between law and history, and its impacts upon Australian law reform and justice. Her recent book written with Professor Ann Curthoys (Manning Clark Chair of Australian History at ANU) and Associate Professor Alexander Reilly, (Law, University of Adelaide), Rights and Redemption: law, history, indigenous peoples (UNSW Press, 2008), examines the role of history in key Indigenous rights cases which occurred during the era of the Howard government.
Dr Jeremy Moss (School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry)
Dr Jeremy Moss is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Melbourne and director of the Social Justice Institute.
Associate Professor Maureen Tehan (The Melbourne Law School)
Maureen Tehan is the Associate Director, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law and Associate Dean of the Melbourne Law School. Her major focus of research and academic interest is Indigenous legal issues with particular emphasis on native title, heritage protection and land access, use and management. She has a major interest in comparative Canadian law in these areas.