Staff participating in Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies are located in a wide range of departments, schools and centres, including the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, the Humanities Research Centre, the Department of History and Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts; the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences; the Asian History Centre in the Faculty of Asian Studies; the Division of Pacific and Asian History and Centre for Gender Relations Centre, in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, the School of Art, National Institute of the Arts and the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

Below is a list of staff at the ANU (together with their primary research interests) who are able to provide expert supervision and advice. Other contact details for staff listed below, including email addresses are available at the following website www.anu.edu.au/dirs/email/

Professor Jon Altman, Marketing of Indigenous arts.

Dr Bain Attwood, Indigenous history in Australia and New Zealand; Indigenous rights; history and memory (Adjunct Professor ).

Dr Tim Bonyhady, Australian environmental and urban history; art history.

Dr Laurence Brown, History of migration; comparative colonial history; history and memory.

Dr Adam Chapman, Lao language, culture and history, ethnomusicology, diasporic/transnational cultural production, anthropology of the senses.

Dr Elizabeth Coleman, Aboriginal claims and the language of rights; cross-cultural aesthetics; and blasphemy and sacrilege in a multicultural society.

Professor Ann Curthoys, Australian history, especially Aboriginal, women’s media and post-WWII political history.

Professor Greg Dening, Cross-cultural history of the Pacific; historical consciousness and the writing of reflective history (Adjunct Professor).

Dr John Docker, Cultural studies; post-colonial theory and diasporic and identity studies (Visiting Fellow).

Dr Bronwen Douglas, Pacific history.

Dr Mary Edmunds, native title and Australian Aboriginal anthropology; refugees and asylum seekers in Australia; human rights and the application of international instruments; conflict and the theory and practice of alternative dispute resolution.

Dr Penny Edwards, Cambodian and Burmese history, Chinese diaspora, identity-formation under colonial rule in mainland Southeast Asia, nationalism and colonialism, colonial and cultural politics of ethnicity and gender.

Professor Bill Gammage, Australian history, specifically Aboriginal land management; the history of New Guinea.

Dr Debjani Ganguly, Caste and dalit cultural history, postcolonial theory, literary and translation studies, South Asian historiographical debates and intellectual movements, diasporic/global/transnational cultural flows.

Dr Chris Gregory, Ethnographic film, political and economic anthropology, anthropological theory, India, Papua New Guinea.

Dr Diana Glazebrook, asylum policy; national thinking, identity formation and cultural bereavement among refugee populations; West Papuan refugees in PNG; Afghani refugees in Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Tom Griffiths, Australian cultural and environmental history; the comparative environmental history of settler societies; the history of Antarctica.

Dr Louise Hamby, Aboriginal art and material culture, especially fibre forms from Arnhem Land.

Dr Rodney Harrison, Contact archaeology; collecting and colonialism; landscape archaeology; cultural heritage studies; Indigenous people and natural resource management.

Dr Melinda Hinkson, Australian Indigenous anthropology, history of Australian anthropology, contemporary Indigenous cultural expression (media, art), Aboriginal community development, inter-cultural engagement, exhibition development.

Professor Margaret Jolly, Feminist anthropology, illness and healing, Melanesian ethnography and the colonial history of the Pacific.

Dr Vivien Johnson, Aboriginal art.

Mr Nigel Lendon, Contemporary Indigenous art, contemporary Australian art practice.

Dr Jacqueline Lo, Cross-cultural exchange between Australian and Asian performing arts industries, politics of identity and cultural production, Singaporean and Malaysian theatre and colonial and neo-colonial rule.

Mr David MacDougall, Ethnographic film history, techniques and concepts exploring new theoretical models for visual anthropology and using film and video to study the formation of identity and the ‘social aesthetics’ of small communities.

Ms Judith MacDougall, New strategies for cross-cultural film-making; material culture; people in their constructed environments (Visiting Fellow).

Professor Iain McCalman, Cultural history, especially of the the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, specifically cross-cultural travel writings, British and Irish popular radicalism; popular culture and romanticism.

Dr Ann McGrath, Comparative cross-cultural history of settler societies; Aboriginal history; museology.

Mr Kim McKenzie, Anthropological film making and multimedia; social and environmental history; the use of digital recording media within Indigenous communities.

Dr Charles Merewether, Art history; asian art; collections; cultural history.

Dr Donna Merwick, Dutch and English settlement in upper New York state in the seveteenth century including settler relations (Visiting Fellow).

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.

Dr Benjamin Penny, Daoism; Chinese religious history.

Dr Nicholas Peterson, Anthropology of photography, social organisation, economic anthropology, territorial organisation, marine tenure, hunting and gathering societies, fourth world people and the state, social change and development.

Dr Paul Pickering, Modern British, Irish and Australian political and social history with special reference to campaigns for parliamentary reform and free trade.

Dr Peter Read, Aboriginal history, and Australian attachments to place.

Dr Craig Reynolds, Thai and Burmese history.

Dr Libby Robin, History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy, especially in Australia; comparative environmental history; environmental sensibility and national identity; environment in museums; history of ornithology.

Dr Deborah Rose, Indigenous ecological knowledge and ethics; Indigenous and Settler landscapes in Australia and other settler societies; post-colonial possibilities for social and ecological justice.

Dr Monique Skidmore, Medical and political anthropology; South East Asia, Burma and Cambodia; peace and conflict studies; human rights.

Dr Carolyn Strange, Canadian, Australian, and U.S. history; history and memory.

Dr Luke Taylor, Aboriginal art (Adjunct Professor).

Professor Paul Turnbull, Enlightenment historiography; early anthropology; racial anatomy; the social history of Australian Indigenous and European sciences since 1788 (Adjunct Professor).

Dr Caroline Turner, Asian and Pacific modern and contemporary art; nineteenth and twentieth century European and American art; American cultural history, especially of the nineteenth century; art and human rights; museology and art galleries.

Advisors

In addition to scholars located at the ANU, Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies will take advantage of strong links with national cultural institutions located in Canberra, including the National Museum of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery and Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies. A range of scholars is available in these institutions to provide expert advice to graduate students enrolled in Graduate Research in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies.