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Kate Fullagar

Associate Professor


Department of History and Archaeology

Phone: +61 2 9850 9932

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  Her email is kate.fullagar@acu.edu.au Note that much of the information here is now out of date or incomplete.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

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Dr Denis Crowdy


Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, School of Humanities

Phone: 0298502193

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, School of Communication, Society and Culture

Phone: +61 2 9850 8891

Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson is the Head of the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies. She has been awarded three consecutive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagements with digital technologies including social media. She is … View full profile

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Stephanie Lawson

Professor


Macquarie School of Social Sciences

Phone: +61 2 9850 8878
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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

Phone: +61 2 9850 8386

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, School of Humanities

Phone: +61 2 9850 9670

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, School of Communication, Society and Culture

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, School of Communication, Society and Culture

Phone: +61 2 9850 8121

I studied anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and earned my PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in 2000. I held postdoctoral positions at Radboud University and the Australian National University. Additionally, I have been awarded fellowships at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast … View full profile

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Dr Deborah Van Heekeren


Macquarie School of Social Sciences

Phone: +61 2 9850 8622
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Dr Benedicte Andre


Faculty of Arts

Phone: 0298507029

Dr Bénédicte André is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies. Originally from Reunion Island, she completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2014. Her first monograph, Iléité. Perspectives littéraires sur le vécu insulaire [Islandness. Literary Perspectives on Lived Ins… View full profile

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Dr Anna-Karina Hermkens


Macquarie School of Social Sciences, School of Communication, Society and Culture

Phone: +61 4 5264 4745
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Mr Alec Morgan


Centre for Media History (CMH), Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature

Phone: +61 2 9850 2198

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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Dr Matalena Tofa


PVC (Learning & Teaching)

Phone: +61 2 9850 1937
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Selvaraj Velayutham

Associate Professor


Macquarie School of Social Sciences, School of Communication, Society and Culture

Phone: +61 2 9850 4426
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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

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