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![Photo of Kate Fullagar](https://researchers.mq.edu.au/files-asset/96561441/Fullagar_Headshot_copy.jpg)
Kate Fullagar
Associate Professor
Department of History and Archaeology
Kate Fullagar is now a professor of history at Australian Catholic University. Her email is kate.fullagar@acu.edu.au Note that much of the information here is now out of date or incomplete. … View full profile
Dr Denis Crowdy
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
With an undergraduate BMus degree in classical guitar performance, Crowdy worked as a musician before travelling to Papua New Guinea in 1992 to teach music at the University of Papua New Guinea. He then moved to Macquarie university. His research and practice has explored Papua New Guinean popular m… View full profile
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Bronwyn Carlson
Professor
Department of Indigenous Studies
Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born on and lives on D'harawal Country in NSW Australia. Bronwyn was awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Indigenous grant in 2013 for research on Aboriginal identity and community online (IN1301000360), and a second ARC in 2… View full profile
Stephanie Lawson
Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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Vij Nagarajan
Emeritus Professor
Macquarie Law School
Vijaya Nagarajan researches and teaches in the areas of regulation, corporate governance, sustainability and corporate responsibility, competition law and policy and legal spatialities and gender equality. She has supervised students, published widely and undertaken several consultancies in these ar… View full profile
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Richie Howitt
Emeritus Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
My research focuses on Indigenous rights and the interface between Indigenous communities, natural resource development, governments and corporations at the scales of the project, the community, the landscape and the nation. Much of my work uses highly participatory social impact assessment methodol… View full profile
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Emily O'Gorman
Associate Professor
Department of History and Archaeology
Associate Professor Emily O’Gorman’s research is situated within environmental history, more-than-human geography, and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. She ho… View full profile
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Tom Murray
Professor
Centre for Media History (CMH), Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Tom Murray is founding and current director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University. He has worked in documentary production for over 25 years as a writer, director, and producer, and his work has been selected in some of the world's most prestigious international film fe… View full profile
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Jaap Timmer
Associate Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
I studied anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and obtained my PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000. I have held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University, Radboud University, and the Australian National University. I have also been engaged in conflict resolution and emergency aid i… View full profile
Dr Deborah Van Heekeren
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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Dr Benedicte Andre
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Dr Bénédicte André is a Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, and the Learning and Teaching Coordinator for Languages and Cultures in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature (MCCALL). Originally from Reunion Island, she completed her PhD at The Universit… View full profile
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Dr Anna-Karina Hermkens
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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Mr Alec Morgan
Centre for Media History (CMH), Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Alec Morgan has a PhD in media and communications from Macquarie University and was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Media, Music, Communications and Cultural Studies. His major research project Visual Songlines: Contemporary Aboriginal filmmakers, cultural transference and their … View full profile
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Dr Margaret Raven
Dr Margaret Raven is a Postdoctoral Fellow through the Macquarie University Fellowship for Indigenous Researchers at Macquarie University. She previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Raven is a geographer with e… View full profile
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Selvaraj Velayutham
Associate Professor
Macquarie School of Social Sciences
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Dr Usha Harris
Dr Usha Harris teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in International Communication in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies. She has 15 years of professional media experience which includes working as a television researcher and producer in Australia … View full profile