Social and Cultural Anthropology
Applied anthropology, anthrozoology and human-animal relations, indigenous Australia and non-indigenous anthropology, medical anthropology and symbolism and religious anthropology, identity and material culture.
Faculty Research Focus
- Anthropology and sociology of development and environment
- Ethnicity and cultural identities in South and Southeast Asia
- Indigenous Australia
Search for a Research Supervisor in Social and Cultural Anthrolopogy.
Research Interests
The College will consider any research topic that interests potential PhD students; however, students will benefit from researching in areas that align with the College’s strengths. Please contact us to discuss your PhD topic.
Alternatively you may contact one of our academics below to discuss your area of interest.
- Dr Kayli Wild
- Dr Natalie Araujo
- Anthropological approaches to environmental issues - Dr Nicholas Smith
- Anthropological approaches to Food and Eating - Dr Nicholas Smith
- Anthropology of non-indigenous Australia - Dr John Morton
- Anthropology of, and for native title - Dr Nicholas Smith
- Childhood - Dr Julie Andrews
- Childhood and youth - Professor Helen Lee
- Comparative and historical sociology - Dr Trevor Hogan
- Education and social inequality (class, ethnicity and gender) - Professor Kaori Okano
- Ethnographic methodologies - Dr Ray Madden
- Ethnography of schooling - Professor Kaori Okano
- Indigenous issues - Dr Ray Madden
- Intercultural aspects of Aboriginal lifeworlds in the western Pilbara region of WA - Dr Nicholas Smith
- Longitudinal ethnography - Professor Kaori Okano
- Migration and Gender studies - Dr Monika Winarnita
- Multiculturalisms and education in Asia and Japan - Professor Kaori Okano
- Non-formal education and civil society - Professor Kaori Okano
- Peace and Conflict Transformation - Professor Alberto Gomes
- Post-structuralism and psychoanalysis in anthropology - Dr John Morton
- Sociology / anthropology of education in Japan - Professor Kaori Okano
- South-east Australian Aboriginal issues - Dr Ray Madden
- State-society Interaction - Dr Nicholas Herriman
- The anthropology of human and animal relations - Dr Ray Madden
- Tonga, the South Pacific - Professor Helen Lee