Diane Austin-Broos
Diane Joyce Austin-Broos FRSN FASSA | |
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Born | 1946 (age 74–75) |
Nationality | Australian |
Title | Professor Emeritus |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Anthropology of Jamaica and Central Australia |
Institutions | University of Sydney Monash University |
Diane Joyce Austin-Broos FRSN FASSA (born 1946) is an anthropologist from Australia.[1] She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia.[2]
Early life and education[]
Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946, and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University, where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy, followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 1969 she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and completed a doctorate in anthropology there in 1974. Austin-Broos returned to Australia the same year.[1]
Career[]
Austin-Broos lectured in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Melbourne for over five years; in 1980 moved to a position in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1995, a position she held until her retirement in 2008. She was then appointed professor emerita.[1]
While teaching at the University of Sydney, Austin-Broos introduced two major courses, on social change and the history of anthropological thought, to the anthropology curriculum. She also led a redesign of the first year course and supervised doctoral theses on a wide range of topics.[1]
Austin-Broos is an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1990)[3] and a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Australian Caribbean Scholars Association. Her 2011 book A Different Inequality was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction).[2] She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[4]
Publications[]
- Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, (1997) The University of Chicago Press[1]
- Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia, (2009) The University of Chicago Press[1]
- A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia (2011) Allen & Unwin[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Melbourne, The University of. "Austin-Broos, Diane Joyce - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Anthropology, Department of. "Professor Emeritus Diane Austin-Broos - Department of Anthropology - The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
- ^ "Academy Fellow – Emeritus Professor Diane Austin-Broos". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
- ^ "Fellows - The Royal Society of NSW". www.royalsoc.org.au. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- People educated at Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne
- Australian anthropologists
- Australian women anthropologists
- Australian ethnologists
- Australian National University alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Monash University faculty
- University of Sydney faculty
- Academics from Melbourne
- Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia