All research supervisors
Anthropology
Ms Julie Andrews
Julie’s academic interests include childhood, identity and Aboriginal Australia.
Dr Jessie Birkett-Rees
I am interested in the relationships between people and landscape and in the archaeology of conflict and commemoration. Methodologically, I specialise in spatial analyses, in non-invasive investigation techniques and in the application of G
Professor Alberto Gomes
Professor Gomes’ academic interests include Anthropology and sociology of development and environment; ethnicity and cultural identities, South and Southeast Asia
Dr Nicholas Herriman
Nicolas' academic interests include Southeast Asia and Indonesia.
Dr Helen Lee
Helen's academic interests include childhood, identity; migration and Pacific and Tonga.
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 Celia McMichael
Celia has a background in medical anthropology and public health. She has several years experience in qualitative research and conducted her doctoral studies in the area of refugee health and resettlement.
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.
Professor Kaori Okano
Kaori H. Okano is a Professor in Asian Studies in the School of Social Sciences. She researches and writes in the field of sociology/anthropology of education, youth, women and multiculturalism in Asia (especially in Japan); and comparative
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.
Dr Ramon Spaaij
Ramón Spaaij is a Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam.
Dr John Taylor
John's academic interests include Anthropology of tourism, South Pacific islands, religious cosmologies and epistemologies in cross-cultural perspective, temporalities and timescapes, space/place, kinship studies, colonialism and neo-coloni
Dr Brooke Wilmsen
Brooke’s academic interests include involuntary and forced displacement; refugee resettlement; Australian social policy; sustainable livelihoods; Chinese politics and development studies.
Ms Senem Yekenkurul
Senem’s research focuses on the lives of adult children of immigrants from diverse backgrounds. She is interested in how folktales, family stories and histories contribute to the cultural construction of identity. She is currently the sub
