Annals: Departmental reports and staff listings
Australian National University
School of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Full-time anthropology teaching staff
Robert D Attenborough (DPMI 1979, Oxford; Senior Lecturer) Human demography, malaria epidemiology, nutrition and growth, biosocial anthropology, anthropological genetics; Papua New Guinea, Himalayas
Ashley Carruthers (PhD 2001, Sydney; Research Fellow) Transnational social fields, diasporas, exile, multiculturalism, media, consumption, visual art; Vietnam
Simone J Dennis (PhD 2002, Adelaide, Lecturer) Phenomenological intersections with anthropology, especially in the areas of food and eating, drugs and alcohol and music; anthropology of human-animal relationships; anthropology of migration, memory, forgetting and remembering, and movement, especially among Persian women in Australia; human relationships to place and environment. Current ethnographic area of interest: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.
Donald S Gardner (PhD 1981, Australian National University; Lecturer) Social theory, Melanesian society, cosmology; Melanesia. On leave
Christopher Gregory (PhD 1980, Cambridge; Reader) Political and economic anthropology, anthropological theory, ethnographic film; India, Papua New Guinea. On leave
Colin P Groves (PhD 1966, London; Professor) Human evolution, primates, skeletal analysis, biological anthropology, ethnobiology and domestication; the world
Patrick Guinness (PhD 1981, Australian National University; Reader and Head of School) Urban cultures, theories and practices of development, religion; SE Asia, particularly Malaysia and Indonesia
Christine Helliwell (PhD 1990, Australian National University; Reader) Social theory, gender, personhood and sociality, discourses of development; SE Asia
Melinda J Hinkson (PhD 2000, Latrobe; Lecturer) History of anthropology, anthropology of globalisation and media, theories culture and personhood; Aboriginal Australia
Patrick J Kilby (PhD 2004, Australian National University; MAAPD Co-ordinator) Non-government organisations, women’s empowerment, development project management, community participation
Francesca C Merlan (PhD 1975, New Mexico; Professor) Social transformation, indigeneity, nationalism, language and culture, theories of social action, organisation and consciousness, places and place-worlds, modernity; Australia, Papua New Guinea
Doreen Montag (MA 2000, Free University, Berlin, Lecturer) Critical medical anthropology, infectious diseases, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, ethics in medical research, international health, development and health, Latin America, especially Peruvian Andes and Amazon
Nicolas Peterson (PhD 1972, Sydney; Professor and Head of School) Economic anthropology, land and marine tenure, hunting and gathering societies, fourth world people and the state, economic anthropology, anthropological photography; Australia
Phillip Winn (PhD 2002, Australian National University; Lecturer) Sovereignty, violence, identity and difference, moral and political rationalities, Muslim sociality, eastern Indonesia, East Timor
Research Fellows
Ian D Keen (PhD 1979, Australian National University; Visiting Fellow) Anthropology, Australian Aborigines, land rights and native title, art and religion; Australia
Other
Margot L Lyon (PhD 1977, California-Berkeley; Adjunct Fellow) Medical anthropology, anthropology of emotions; Indonesia
Administrative Secretary: Sue Fraser
School publications: The Journal of Asia Pacific Anthropology (jointly with Department of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU)
Support opportunities: Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) International Postgraduate Research Awards (IPRA), and ANU Scholarships. Fieldwork funding for full-time students.