Indigenous Australian Studies
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 Maggie Brady
Health and alcohol policies for indigenous peoples, the role of primary health care services in alcohol interventions, and complementary healing strategies.
Dr Gordon Briscoe
Indigenous health and demographic transition.
Professor Ann Curthoys
Australian history, especially Aboriginal, women's, media, and migration; transnational histories of settler societies; genocide theory and history; historiography; theories of history.
Dr Thomas Griffiths
Australian social, cultural and environmental history, the comparative environmental history of settler societies, the writing of non-fiction, and the history of Antarctica.
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.
Ms Janet Hunt
Non-government organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as gender and development.
Dr Boyd Hunter
Labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research.
Dr Julie Lahn
Torres Strait, Aboriginal Australia, morality and relatedness, marine activity and resource use, museum collecting, poverty.
Dr David Martin
Policy implications of the engagement of Aboriginal social, political and economic systems with those of the dominant society.
Professor Ann McGrath
Gender and Colonialism; Australian indigenous history; comparative and trans-national history of frontiers in Australia and North America; Birth, Marriage and intermarriage; Law, Justice and History; Museums, Museology and Public History; Art and Visual Evidence in History.
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 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.
Ms Frances Peters-Little
Aboriginal arts and media; Aboriginal recent political history and identity;
Indigenous higher education
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 Timothy Rowse
Twentieth century Australian history - including government policies towards Aboriginal people, and Aboriginal responses to colonisation (both nationally and with reference to Central Australia); cultural policy;the history of official statistics.
Dr William Sanders
Political and social and economic aspects of Indigenous policyIndigenous people's participation in elections, on housing and social security policy issues.
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 John Taylor
Measurement of demographic change among Indigenous peoples and assessment of their economic status at varying scales of analysis from the local to the regional and national. International comparison with North America and New Zealand, particularly in terms of demographic analysis
Dr Lorenzo Veracini
Comparative historiography, comparative history of colonial systems, Indigenous-settler relations, settler societies.