Mr Philip Morrissey
Academic Coordinator of the Australia Indigenous Studies program, Faculty of Arts
Philip Morrissey is the Academic Coordinator of the Faculty of Arts Australian Indigenous Studies program and the Bachelor of Arts (Extended) for Indigenous students at the University of Melbourne. He also coordinates the first year Interdisciplinary Foundation and University Breadth subject 100-181 Australian Indigenous Studies, and chairs the University's Indigenous Studies Teaching and Learning Programs Sub-Committee and Indigenous Scholarships and Awards Committee. His principal research interest is Aboriginal urban culture. He has published on Aboriginal fine arts, film, literature, governance, sport and the public sphere.
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Publications
Book Chapters
- ‘Aboriginality and Corporatism’ and ‘Moving, Remembering, Singing our Place’ in Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, ed. Michele Grossman, Melbourne University Press, 2003.
- 'Trust, Truth, Fatuity' chapter in Unfinished Constitutional Business? Rethinking Indigenous Self-determination ed. Barbara Hocking, AIATSIS Press. 2005
- ‘Dancing with Shadows: Erasing Aboriginal Self and Sovereignty’in Aileen Moreton Robinson, Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, 2007.
Essays
- ‘Los Escritores Aborigenes Australianos’in Revista Espanola del Pacifico 2001
- ‘Living in Care’ (with Marion J Campbell) in Anna Haebich & Doreen Mellor (eds) Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation NLA 2002
- ‘Stalking Aboriginal Culture: The Wanda Koolmatrie Affair’ Australian Feminist Studies 2003
- ‘Aboriginal Children’ Australian Humanities Review 2007