Graduate Research in Anthropology - Staff
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Professor James J Fox
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
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Dr Andrew Kipnis
Processes of subjectification; public culture; language and culture; kinship and gender; education; religion; development; postsocialist societies; China; east Asia; USA
Professor Mark Mosko
Melanesia; symbolism; social organisation; culture change; culture theory; cross-cultural comparisons among Pacific Island societies.
Dr Kathryn Robinson
Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; traditional architecture; medical anthropology; technology and anxiety discourse; Australia-Asia relations
Dr Alan Rumsey
Highland New Guinea; Aboriginal Australia; discourse, language and culture; indigenes and the state
Professor Nicholas Tapp
Ethnic minorities and the state; development and environment; semiology and history; transnationalism and diaspora; borderlands of southeast Asia (northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, southwest China)
Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Project, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Dr Colin Filer
Papua New Guinea and Melanesia; environment and development; political and social complexion of landowning communities; social impact of major resource projects; forest management of biodiversity conservation; the role of aid in national and regional resource management policies.
Dr Andrew Walker
Mainland Southeast Asia (especially Thailand and Laos); resource management; borders; space and place; trading and transport systems; regulation; globalisation
Centre for Tax System Integrity, Research School of Social Sciences
Dr Gregory Rawlings
Legal Anthropology, globalisation, regulation, tax havens, money laundering & financial crime, urban anthropology, transnationalism, land tenure, labour and multi sited ethnography & methodologies. Fieldwork areas include Australia, Andorra, Samoa, Singapore, Guernsey and Vanuatu.
School of Archaeology & Anthropology, Faculty of Arts
Dr Robert Attenborough
Human demography, malaria epidemiology, nutrition and growth, environmental adaptation, anthropological genetics, and Biosocial anthropology.
Dr Ashley Carruthers
Migration and other transnational processes, multiculturalism, consumption, cosmopolitanism, media, the Vietnamese diaspora, Indochinese communities in Western Sydney.
Dr Don Gardner
Social theory; Melanesian societies; cosmologies in historical perspective; cultural responses to material conditions (on leave until 2007).
Dr Chris Gregory
Political and economic anthropology, anthropological theory, India, Papua New Guinea, ethnographic film.
Dr Patrick Guinness
Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia,
urban cultures, theories and practices of development, religion.
Dr Christine Helliwell
Southeast Asia, social theory, gender, personhood and its relationship to different forms of sociality and identity, discourses of "development".
Dr Melinda Hinkson
Research interests include Aboriginal Australia; history of anthropology; cultural transformation; anthropology of globalisation and media; theories of culture and personhood.
Dr Ian Keen
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.
Dr Margot Lyon
Emotion; embodiment; critical medical anthropology/ transcultural psychiatry; anthropology of pharmaceuticals; religion and political ideology in Southeast Asia; economic globalisation and local social forms.
Professor Francesca Merlan
Social transformation, indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture; theories of social action, organisation, and consciousness; places and place-worlds; modernity.
Dr Nicolas Peterson
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.
Dr Anthony Redmond
Research interests include; relational subjectivities, bodily experience, intercultural engagements in colonial situations, Indigenous Australian societies and economies, visual thinking, childhood and youth cultures, phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Native Title regimes and methods.
Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research
Professor Jon Altman
Economic development and economic policy issues for Indigenous Australians, land rights and native title, the economic engagement of Indigenous Australians with the mining, tourism, and arts and crafts industries, the Indigenous informal economy and theoretical issues in economic anthropology and development.
Dr Sarah Holcombe
Aboriginal Australia; The engagement of Indigenous organisations, such as native title representative bodies and small Aboriginal corporations, with development issues such as mining; Indigenous Governance, such as those issues surrounding regionalisation vs local autonomy; Land tenure systems and decision making processes; The anthropology of the State; The anthropology of organisations; The dynamics of "inter-cultural" and social change; Succession processes and re-territorialisation; Women's ritual and the gender debate in Central Australia; and Indigenous transport issues in remote areas.
Dr David Martin
Aboriginal Australia; applied anthropology with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary work; engagement of Aboriginal people with the general Australian society, including development dilemmas, issues of political representation, native title, alcohol issues.
Ms Frances Morphy
Cross-cultural translation; Indigenous governance; the representation of Indigenous people in censuses and surveys; land rights and native title; the Indigenous art and craft industry.
Dr R.G. (Jerry) Schwab
Indigenous Australians: education and training policy, literacy, youth, land and resource management education.
Dr Benjamin Smith
Aboriginal Australia; systems of land tenure; place and socio-cultural production; land rights and native title; the anthropology of the state; anthropological theories of subjectivity; 'diaspora' and 'local' Aboriginal communities; population mobility and decentralization; anthropology and development in Australian and overseas contexts; social change and 'intercultural' processes; photography and anthropology; yoga in India and Australia.
Ms Diane Smith
Indigenous governance and representative structures; the socioeconomic status of Indigenous families and households; the cultural and policy parameters of Indigenous engagement with the welfare state; resource development and compensation; native title and land rights; and theoretical issues in policy and applied anthropology.
Centre for Cross Cultural Research
Professor Howard Morphy
Aboriginal art and religion, the anthropology of art and aesthetics, visual anthropology, the history of anthropology, the relationship between museums and indigenous peoples.
Mr David MacDougall
Ethnographic film; theoretical frameworks for visual anthropological research.
Dr Diana Young
Aboriginal Australia; material and visual culture, social construction of environment, colour, the senses, emotion. Anthropology of art, consumption.
Professor Luke Taylor
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artists; Aboriginal Australia; Anthropology of art; material and visual culture.
Dr. Monique Skidmore
medical anthropology; political anthropology and human rights; anthropology of violence; peace and conflict studies; extra-state economies and globalization; ethnopsychiatry, ethnopsychology and the anthropology of the body; Burma (Myanmar); Southeast Asia; Buddhism.
Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies
Dr Deborah Bird Rose
Indigenous ecological knowledge and ethics; Indigenous and Settler landscapes in Australia and other settler societies; post-colonial possibilities for social and ecological justice.
Gender Relations Centre, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies
Professor Margaret Jolly
Feminist anthropology, illness and healing, Melanesian ethnography and the colonial history of the Pacific.
Richard Eves
Melanesian ethnography (especially religion, bodily beliefs and social/cultural change); medical anthropology (especially international public health and HIV/AIDS); nineteenth century anthropological and racial thought; colonialism in the Pacific (especially cross-cultural contact and missionary history); gender and sexuality.
Tamara Jacka
Gender relations and social change in contemporary China; social differentiation in Chinese official and popular discourse; approaches to gender and development; women's NGOs, rural-urban migration; gender and suicide.
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