Leadership

Executive Leadership Team

The Executive Leadership team, led by the Dean, provides leadership and management for the Faculty of Arts. The Executive Team includes the Deputy Dean, Faculty Executive Director, Associate Deans and Heads of School.

• Professor Jennifer Balint

  Dean

  Jennifer’s research focuses on state crime, genocide and access to justice, with a focus on the constitutive function of law in societies and transitional justice.

• Tony McKimmie

  Faculty Executive Director

  Tony joined the Faculty in 2019 from Oxfam Australia where he was Chief Operating Officer. He previously held executive management roles at Lonely Planet Publications Melbourne.

• Professor Beth Driscoll

  Deputy Dean (Academic)

  Beth is Associate Professor in Publishing and Communications. Her research interests include fiction reading practices and the contemporary publishing industry.

Heads of School

• Professor Andrew Rosser

  Director, Asia Institute

  Andrew Rosser is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies. His research and teaching interests centre on the political economy of development in Asia, especially Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia.

• Associate Professor Ika Willis

  Head, School of Culture and Communication

  Ika Willis is an Education Focused academic with teaching and research specialisms in literary reception studies, and emerging interests in critical edtech and the theory and practice of assessment.

• Professor Margaret Cameron

  Head, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies

  Margaret is a distinguished philosopher with specialisations in Aristotle and in the Histories of Philosophy of Language and Mind, of Logic, and of Aesthetics.

• Professor John Hajek

  Head, School of Language and Linguistics

  John is a linguist and Italianist with a wide range of teaching and research interests including language education, European Studies. Sociolinguistics and phonetics.

• Professor Belinda Hewitt

  Head, School of Social and Political Sciences

  Belinda is a Professor in Sociology with a research focus on gender differences in relationships and family dynamics and the use of longitudinal and life course approaches to understanding changes in families.

Faculty Associate Deans

• Professor Alfredo Martinez-Exposito

  Associate Dean (Diversity and Inclusion)

  Alfredo is Professor of Spanish, with research interests in critical theory, literature, and cinema. His work explores gender, sexuality, and the politics of the body in post-2008 cultural contexts, engaging queer theory, critical masculinity studies, and decolonial aesthetics, with current projects on masculinity and representation across Spain and Latin America.

• Professor Sandra Phillips

  Associate Dean (Indigenous)

  Sandra is a Professor in Publishing and Communications. Her research interests include Australian publishing and national and transnational Indigenous literature.

• Professor Kate McGregor

  Associate Dean (Global)

  Kate McGregor is a historian of Indonesia. She has over 25 years’ experience of engagement with Indonesia and Indonesian universities and previously served as Deputy Associate Dean International Indonesia (2021-2023) for the Faculty and as President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (2021-2022).

• Professor Fiona Fidler

  Associate Dean (Research)

  Fiona is a philosopher of science with a long-standing interest in statistical controversies. Her current work in ‘metascience’ focuses on improving research culture and peer review systems to create a more trustworthy scientific evidence base.

• Professor Rachael Diprose

  Associate Dean (Partnerships)

  Rachael teaches in the Master of Development Studies program, supports collaborations and partnerships with Indonesian universities, government and civil society organisations for the School of Social and Political Sciences and has convened the University's Indonesia Forum over multiple years.