My research centres on the construction and representation of difference in liberal democratic political and popular cultures. This has produced work that investigates a wide variety of historical contexts and representations. This includes research on the dynamic of settler-colonialism and changing constructions of manhood in nineteenth century Victoria, anthropological constructions...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Kate Gleeson is Associate Professor and member of the Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE). She is a leader of the Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality and Power research stream. Kate studied for her PhD in Politics and International  Relations at the University of New...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Michelle Arrow is a historian with particular expertise in cultural history, the history of popular culture, and the history of the women's movement. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1999, and her thesis, a social and cultural history of some of Australia 's leading women playwrights,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a Sessional Academic in the Department of Media, Music, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, and Centre Manager: Research and Engagement for the Creative Documentary Research Centre. I was a Macquarie University Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020. My research focuses on gender, labour and technology in the media. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Isobelle Barrett Meyering joined Macquarie University in 2018. Her current research project, ‘Contested Childhoods: A History of Children’s Rights in Australia (1959-2013)’, explores how debates over children’s rights have shaped political, social and cultural life across a period of almost sixty years.  This research builds on Isobelle's previous work...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Amy Barrow is Associate Professor at Macquarie Law School and a member of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre. Together with Sara Fuller (GEOP), she leads the Activism, Rights and Justice Research Stream in the Faculty of Arts. Amy's research explores how institutional mechanisms, laws and rights activism...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Thomas joined Macquarie University in 2017. He holds a PhD and a BA(Hons, first class) in Japanese Studies from Monash University. Thomas is a cultural anthropologist whose work has explored consumption of popular culture among queer communities in Japan, Mainland China, Thailand and the Philippines. He has a particular interest in the...View full profile in our Researcher's database

What’s a friend? The question has become increasingly pressing at a time when the word seems to capture intimates as well as strangers. My research centres on the changing meaning of one-on-one friendship as an intimate relationship. I treat the bundle of social expectations that make the relationship meaningful as...View full profile in our Researcher's database

My research centres on the construction and representation of difference in liberal democratic political and popular cultures. This has produced work that investigates a wide variety of historical contexts and representations. This includes research on the dynamic of settler-colonialism and changing constructions of manhood in nineteenth century Victoria, anthropological constructions...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Florence Chiew earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. She has published on a broad range of topics, including social theory, educational philosophy, the sociology of neuroscience, new materialist feminism and human–animal relations. Florence is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in how empirical data from the life and...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Louise's main current research area is medievalism. Medievalism examines post-medieval receptions and constructions of the Middle Ages, and considers the impact of these constructions on modern cultural, political, and social life. Her current research is on comic representations of the medieval past, trans-historical emotion, and how ideas about the medieval...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Greg Downey received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1998. After working at Columbia University and the University of Notre Dame, he moved to Australia in 2006 to take a position at Macquarie University. Greg’s first book, Learning Capoeira: Lessons in Cunning from an Afro-Brazilian Art (Oxford University...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Andrew Farrell is a lecturer in the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University. Andrew is a Wodi Wodi descendant from Jerrinja Aboriginal community on the South Coast of NSW. Their research is multidisciplinary with a focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+SB gender and sexualities, media and online...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Tobia Fattore's empirical research is in the broad areas of the sociology of childhood and sociology of work. He is currently working on several projects in these areas. This includes a sociological examination of children's well-being, that analyses children's understandings and sense of well-being and how this reflects processes of...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Joanne is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Literature, and Language (MCCALL), and was an ARC Future Fellow from 2018 - 2022. Her research investigates the ways in which representations of childhood circulate in Australian culture to manage anxieties about national identity...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Rachael Gunn is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (2017) and a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Music (2009) from Macquarie University. Her work draws on cultural theory, dance studies, popular music studies, media, and ethnography. Rachael is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Prof Tiffany Jones (BCA, BEd-Hons1, PhD) is Director of Research and Innovation in the Macquarie School of Education and sits on the ARC College of Experts. She is a sociologist who researches LGBTIQ+ issues in education, health and social policy. She was named in the '2023 Stanford Elsevier Top 2%...View full profile in our Researcher's database

In her research to date, Kumiko has investigated the nexus between individual lives, labour and consumption in post-industrial contexts, as well as social transformation through the lens of transnational migration. Trained in qualitative methods, she particularly values ethnography as a way to observe everyday practices and approach questions that have...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr. Jyhene Kebsi is the Director of Learning & Teaching. In 2018, she was hired by Macquarie University as a Permanent Full-time Assistant Professor. Since becoming a Tenured Assistant Professor, Dr. Kebsi has held different roles including the MA Program Convenor and L&T Director.   Dr. Kebsi has been teaching...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Associate Professor Tristan Kennedy is an Indigenous researcher interested in the emerging configurations of digital global citizenship and Indigenous peoples’ futures in academia. He has conducted research into Indigenous peoples’ experiences of harmful content on social media and how Indigenous bands and music fans use digital technology to establish digital...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Maryam Khalid is part of the Faculty's leadership team, as the Associate Dean Curriculum and Learning. She was previously Director of the Bachelor of International Studies. Her research sits at the intersection global governance, human rights, race, gender, and sexuality in global politics and international relations, with a focus on...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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I am an Associate Professor in Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. My research and teaching experiences focus on Indigenous and Development Geographies, University-Community engagement and practice-based learning. I take an applied, action-oriented and collaborative approach to research and teaching characterised by community partnerships, co-creation of knowledge and an ethics...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Mianna joined the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie in 2005 as Associate Lecturer in Ethics/Applied Ethics. Prior to her arrival she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, and a Lecturer at La Trobe University. Mianna holds a PhD from Monash...View full profile in our Researcher's database

  PhD in Media Studies, Macquarie University, 1999 Bachelor of Laws, University of Sydney, 1987 Bachelor of Arts, Honours (First Class), University of Sydney, 1985...View full profile in our Researcher's database

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Biography Dr Nicole Matthews lectures across media and cultural studies at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney.  Nicole graduated from Adelaide University with a BA (Hons) in English and Politics in 1991 and undertook her PhD at Griffith University, graduating in 1998. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Biography Dr Jess McLean does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, water politics, climate action and activism. As an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University, she teaches smart urbanism, Anthropocene politics,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Clare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. Between 2007 and 2014, Clare worked at Monash University. She came to Macquarie at the end of 2014. She is broadly interested in history of intellectuals in the Middle Ages, as well...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Vijaya Nagarajan researches and teaches in the areas of regulation, corporate governance, sustainability and corporate responsibility, competition law and policy and legal spatialities and gender equality. She has supervised students, published widely and undertaken several consultancies in these areas. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits screen productions. She researches creative practice, cognition and feminist film histories.  She is a deputy director of the Creative Documentary Research Centre with a portfolio in Creative Practice and Screen Culture.  Karen Pearlman’s trilogy of short films about historical women editors (2016, 2018...View full profile in our Researcher's database

My field is post-ww2 Australian History with a particular emphasis upon identity politics and sexuality. I undertook my PhD at The University of Melbourne, studying under two of Australia's leading gender historians, Professor Patricia Grimshaw and Professor Joy Damousi. I took up a post-doctoral fellowship in 1999 at Sydney University...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Stephanie Russo is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature. Stephanie is one of the leading researchers in the field of historical fiction, encompassing film, television, and theatre, especially musical theatre, as well as the historical novel and biofictions. She is...View full profile in our Researcher's database

  Rebecca Sheehan is a lecturer in History and Gender Studies in the Department of History & Archaeology at Macquarie University, an Associate Member of the History Department at Harvard University, and a member of Macquarie’s Centre for Media History. Dr Sheehan’s research takes an intersectional approach to analysing gender,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Dr Jane Simon researches and teaches in visual cultural studies, film studies and photography. Jane has published articles on amateur and experimental film, photography, artist's books and modes of writing about visual culture. Jane also specialises in photographic media and artists' books. Her artists' books are in international public collections...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Informed by the cultural theory of Bourdieu, Foucault and Derrida, my research draws predominantly on ethnographic research methods to examine fundamental questions of power and inequality. This has led to a critical focus on the ‘performative rituals’ of elite social groups, the maintenance and development of financial landscapes and distinct masculinist...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am a Professor in Law at Macquarie University. Between 2008-2011, I was an ARC Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University (2008) and the University of Wollongong (2009-11). Between 2011-18, I was a senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Philosophy at UOW. I completed my undergraduate degrees in philosophy...View full profile in our Researcher's database

I am an associate professor in Geography and Planning at Macquarie University. My research and teaching experiences over the last 25 years have been in the area of Indigenous rights and environmental management. I worked on Cape York Peninsula on community development in the context of a major mining operation,...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Jon's current research  focuses on environmental politics and global climate policy, including governance of solar geoengineering, engingeering biology and carbon dioxide removal. His most recent book Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and Climate Crisis (Polity, 2019) explores the argument for increased state investment in low-carbon innovation. Jon also works on processes of international...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Hsu-Ming Teo teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), and the edited books The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction (2020), The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia (ASP...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Lisa L. Wynn is Professor in the School of Social Sciences (Discipline of Anthropology) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.  She received her PhD in 2003 from Princeton University's Anthropology Department, then subsequently held two postdoctoral research positions at Princeton's Office of Population Research and Center for Health and Wellbeing. ...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Abbie Hartman is an interdisciplinary historian working in the fields of Modern History and Media Studies. Her research focuses on how popular culture influences historical knowledge, particularly video games' use in articulating and understanding moments of historical trauma. Abbie's current project examines a cross-section of video games published since 2010...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Kate Manlik is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies. Kate completed their Bachelor of Social Science and Master of Research at Macquarie University. Kate's doctoral research explores lesbian and queer women’s place in the Australian HIV landscape. She is also currently working on a collaborative project, examining higher degree research...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Trent Mann is a casual academic and PhD student in the School of Education at Macquarie University currently tutoring and lecturing in a range of educational subjects. His research explores developmental psychology, educational sociology, community health research, inter-disciplinary approaches to research, educational policy and mixed-method research designs with a focus...View full profile in our Researcher's database

Corrinne is an Indigenous woman from the Wiradjuri Nation, New South Wales, Australia. Corrinne was recently awarded an Australian Award for University Teaching citation for the development of a transformative and motivating learning space in Indigenous Studies that has inspired students to critically and sensitively reflect on their perspectives and worldviews. To learn more, click...View full profile in our Researcher's database