Anthropology of Current World Issues

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Gerhard Hoffstaedter

Gerhard is the course director of World101x. He is an Associate Professor in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. His main areas of research include religion, ethnicity and the state, international development and refugees in South-East Asia. He won an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award to produce an in-depth ethnography of the refugee experience in Malaysia. He is also a former ordinary director of the Australian Anthropological Society and co-founder of the Melbourne Free University.

David Trigger

David is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at The University of Queensland and past Head of the School of Social Science. His research interests encompass the different meanings attributed to land and nature across diverse sectors of society. His research on Australian society includes projects focused on a comparison of pro-development, environmentalist and Aboriginal perspectives on land and nature. World101x will follow David into his field to explore the issues, the people he works with and their place in the world.

Anna Cristina Pertierra

Anna was a Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland and is currently an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. Her research interests include the role of media in everyday life and an examination of the cultural and political impact of entertainment television in three countries: Cuba, Mexico and the Philippines. She is also interested in changing new media practices, girls’ engagement with visual media, and the use of ethnographic methods to study mass media and popular culture. World101x will follow Anna into her field to explore the issues, the people she works with and their place in the world.

Annie Ross

Annie is an Associate Professor in Anthropology and Archaeology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on Australian Aboriginal Heritage, Australian Archeology and Indigenous involvement in land management as well as food security in the Solomon’s in the Pacific. Annie’s primary research interest is working on changing meaning and significance for aboriginal heritage places in the 21st century, with a focus on a stone arrangement site on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. World101x will follow Annie into her field to explore the issues, the people she works with and their place in the world.

Sally Babidge

Sally is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. Her main research interests include Indigenous identity and politics, anthropology of resource extraction, Australian aboriginal kinship, native title and applied anthropology. Sally also works as an anthropologist in Chile with indigenous groups and their access to natural resources. World101x will follow Sally into her field to explore the issues, the people she works with and their place in the world.

Kim de Rijke

Kim is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland. His main research interests include environmental anthropology; land, water and coal seam gas disputes; place, identity and natural resources; and the history of Australian anthropology. World101x follows Kim into his field to explore the issues, the people he works with and their place in the world.

Fern Thompsett

Fern completed her BA (Hons) in Anthropology the University of Queensland, and is now working on her PhD at Columbia University in the city of New York. She was previously the recipient of the prestigious Vanier national scholarship. Her current research focuses on environmental activism in response to climate change, and she has previously written about free education movements. She also worked on Aboriginal land title cases in Queensland. She is a co-founder of the Brisbane Free University.

Richard Martin

Richard is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on the politics of indigeneity in post-settler societies with a particular focus on the Gulf Country of northern Australia. World101x will follow Richard into his field to explore the issues, the people he works with and their place in the world.

Diana Young

Diana is Director of the UQ Anthropology Museum and Associate Professor in Material Culture and Museum Anthropology. She has a strong interest in the theoretical and practical aspects of ethnographic collections and the challenge and excitement of reinventing them for the 21st century. World101x will follow Diana to the UQ Anthropology Museum to explore how artefacts are used to preserve history and educate.

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