All research supervisors
Aboriginal studies
Ms Julie Andrews
Julie’s academic interests include childhood, identity and Aboriginal Australia.
Professor Richard Broome
Professor Broome’s current research interests focuses on Aboriginal history. Professor Broome has served on the History Institute of Victoria for ten years, and was a consultant to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (
Dr Richard Cosgrove
My research and teaching experience has been in human behavioural ecology, rock art studies, palaeoecology, zooarchaeology, stone artefact analysis and hunter-gatherer archaeology.
Professor David Frankel
Professor Frankel is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology and the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus.
Dr Jennifer Jones
Dr Jennifer Jones is a Lecturer in Australian Indigenous Studies, Historical and European Studies Program, at La Trobe University. Jennifer joined the department in July 2011.
Dr Ray Madden
My teaching focuses on ethnographic methods, applied anthropology and anthrozoology. My publications reflect my interests in a critique of the concept of culture, anthropology at home, Aboriginal issues in south-east Australia, applied anth
Dr John Morton
John’s academic interests include indigenous Australia, Anthropology of non-indigenous Australia, structuralism, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis in Aboriginal Studies; symbolism and religion.
Dr Nicholas Smith
My publications to date reflect my interest in Australian nationalism, Aboriginality and environmentalism. My teaching centres on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia, and anthropological approaches to food and eating.
