Our people
The Australian Centre team
Advisory board
Learn more about the advisory board terms of reference (PDF).
Dr Lou Bennett
Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Studies (Partnerships)
lou.bennett@unimelb.edu.au
+61331293552
Dr Ngaree Blow
Director of First Nations Health for medical education
ngaree.b@unimelb.edu.au
+61390354763
Stacie Piper
Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation representative
Fellows
A/Prof Amanda Porter
Associate Professor-criminology and Criminal Law
amanda.porter@unimelb.edu.au
+61383447025
Dr Andonis Piperoglou
Hellenic Senior Lecturer in Global Diasporas
andonis.piperoglou@unimelb.edu.au
+61383446420
Dr Lou Bennett
Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Studies (Partnerships)
lou.bennett@unimelb.edu.au
+61331293552
Melissa Kennedy
Research Fellow
Dr Ngaree Blow
Snr Lecturer Medical Education Indigenous Health
ngaree.b@unimelb.edu.au
+61390354763
A/Prof Peter Christoff
Associate Professor- Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
peterac@unimelb.edu.au
Sally Treloyn
Assoc Prof - Ethnomusicology & Intercultural
sally.treloyn@unimelb.edu.au
+61419913719
Affiliated researchers
Assistant Professor Amanda Bertana
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Connecticut State University
Prof Professor Anja Schwarz
Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam
Dr Amy Spiers
Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT School of Art
Dr Archie Thomas
Chancellors’ Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney
Dr Dan Tout
Dr in History and Sociology at Federation University
Dr David MacDonald
Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Guelph
Associate Professor Elise Klein
Associate Professor in Public Policy, Crawford School in Public Policy, Australian National University
Dr Federica Caso
Dr in International Relations in the Department of Politics, Media, and Philosophy at La Trobe University
Professor Kevin Bruyneel
Professor of Politics at Babson College
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist
Associate Professor Lorenzo Veracini
Associate Professor in history and politics at Swinburne's Institute for Social Research and Honorary Senior Fellow in the Australian Centre
Dr Michaela Spencer
Senior Research Fellow at the Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University.
Associate Professor Morgan Brigg
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland
Associate Professor Nick Apoifis
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, the University of New South Wales
Professor Rauna Kuokkanen
Research Professor of Arctic Indigenous Studies at the University of Lapland and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto
Associate Professor Sheryl Lightfoot
Associate Professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies, the University of British Columbia