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Professor Jon Altman
Sustainable economic development and associated policy issues for Indigenous Australia; the economic engagement of Indigenous people with the Australian and global economies (especially in mining, tourism, arts industries and emerging industries); sustainable commercial utilisation of wildlife and fisheries; the Indigenoous customary economy and its articulations with the market; land rights, native title and Indigenous land management; and theoretical issues in economic and development anthropology.
Dr Bill Arthur
Regional economic and political development; business development; island economies; remote area economies; land management; fisheries development; international cross-border issues; spatial analysis.
Dr Robert Attenborough
Human population biology, health (especially malaria) and nutrition in less developed countries; anthropological demography and population ecology; anthropological genetics; Papua New Guinea, Himalayas.
Dr Maggie Brady
Health and alcohol policies for indigenous peoples, the role of primary health care services in alcohol interventions, and complementary healing strategies.
Dr Christopher (Adam) Chapman
Ethnomusicology; Lao music across the Lao disaspora; impact of recording and digital technologies on music-making; indigenous aesthetics and approaches to textual composition; relationship between song melody and lexical tone.
Dr Ashley Carruthers
Migration, diasporas, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnational media, overseas Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian communities.
Dr Simone Dennis
Phenomenological intersections with anthropology in the areas of food and eating, drugs and alcohol and music; anthropology of human-animal relationships; migration, memory, forgetting and remembering, and movement among Persian women in Australia; human relationships to place and environment. Current ethnographic area of interest: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.
Dr Mary Edmunds
Social change, its processes and impacts; native title claims;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 Debjani Ganguly
Caste and dalit identities in India, religious conversion movements, migration and diaspora.
Dr Don Gardner
Social theory, Melanesian societies, cosmologies in historical perspective, cultural response to material conditions.
Dr Christopher Gregory
The political economy and culture of rice-growing in central India as expressed in women's oral epics; kinship and marriage in central India; theories of gift exchange; commodities and money in comparative and historical context..
Dr Patrick Guinness
Participatory development, applied anthropology, urban anthropology, Southeast Asian societies, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, East African societies, religious change, especially in Islam and Christianity, globalisation.
Dr Christine Helliwell
Social and cultural theory, especially the theorisation of 'society' and 'culture'; cross-cultural constitution of gender/sex; constitution of subjectivity or 'personhood' and how this relates to different forms of sociality, identity and government; Dayak peoples of Borneo.
Dr Melinda Hinkson
Aboriginal Australia; history of anthropology; cultural transformation; globalisation and media; culture and personhood.
Dr Sarah Holcombe
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 Patrick Kilby
Non-Governmental Organisations; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; managing development activities; south Asia, particularly India.
Dr Julie Lahn
Torres Strait, Aboriginal Australia, morality and relatedness, marine activity and resource use, museum collecting, poverty.
Dr. Margot L. Lyon
Critical medical anthropology; the social foundations of medicine and medical systems; the anthropology of pharmaceuticals; Embodiment and emotion; emotion and social theory, globalisation and change; Southeast Asian societies particularly Indonesia.
Professor Francesca Merlan
Landedness and its transformation; culture and personhood; Indigeneity; comparative political culture (liberalism and illiberalism); language and culture; social theory and development.
Ms Doreen Montag
Critical medical anthropology; infectious diseases, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals; ethics in medical research; international health; development and health; Latin America, especially Peruvian Andes and Amazon.
Ms Frances Morphy
Indigenous land rights legislation, native title sea claim; Indigenous art and craft industry, particularly in relation to remote area art and craft centres.
Professor Howard Morphy
Anthropology of art and aesthetics, material culture, landscape, visual anthropology and ethnographic film, globalisation, museums and performance, cross-cultural categories, aboriginal religion, kinship, human adaptation and the evolution of culture, the history of anthropology and anthropological history.
Dr. Åse Ottosson
Aboriginal Australia; anthropology of gender, sexuality and masculinity; intercultural theory; music anthropology; expressive cultural forms; media anthropology; politics of ethnicity and national identity.
Professor Nicolas Peterson
Social organisation, economic anthropology, ritual and symbolism, land and sea tenure, fourth world people and the state, social change and applied anthropology, anthropology of photography, ethnographic film, history of Australian Anthropology.
Dr Greg Rawlings
Research interests: Globalisation, transnationalism, regulation, money laundering, taxation, offshore finance centres, citizenship, public policy, governance, corruption, corporate crime, accountability, oversight institutions, land tenure and property rights, 'race' and ethnicity, youth cultures, and urbanisation.
Dr Diana Young
Material culture, particularly on the role of material colours – in clothing, food, paints and cars - in the creation and transmission of social values and practices.
Dr Monique Skidmore
Anthropology of medicine, of the body, peace and conflict studies, and cultural conceptions of time and space; psychiatric anthropology: the conjunction of religion and mental health, combined with research in the anthropology of violence and terror; anthropology of globalization and transnationalism, psychology, and human rights. Research areas: Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia and Burma.
Dr Robert G. (Jerry) Schwab
Indigenous education and training: literacy, educational development (in schools and for academic staff in higher education) and program planning and evaluation; primary and secondary research on issues as diverse as Aboriginal community-controlled schools, notions of educational 'failure' and 'success' among Indigenous students, Indigenous workforce development and Indigenous education outcomes at the primary, secondary and post-compulsory levels.
Dr Benjamin Smith
Aboriginal Australia (particularly Cape York Peninsula and northern Queensland); systems of land tenure; place and sociocultural production; land rights and native title; the anthropology of the state; anthropological theories of subjectivity; 'diaspora' and 'local' Aboriginal communities; population mobility and decentralisation; 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.
Dr Phillip Winn
Political anthropology; state practices and subjectivity; sovereignty and violence; moral rationalities and resource use; Muslim identities and Islamic social diversity; place, dwelling and displacement; tourism; Maluku (eastern Indonesia); Timor Lesté; small island studies.
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