Co-Directors
Professor Jennifer Deger
Jennifer Deger's work moves through the intertidal zones of anthropology, art and environmental humanities. It finds form in film, digital media, experimental ethnographic writing and curation.
For more than 25 years, Jennifer has worked on co-creative projects under Yolŋu leadership. These collaborations continue to inform and energize her commitment to social research and its potentially transformative reach.
Jennifer is a co-editor and co-curator of Feral Atlas: the More-than-human Anthropocene, published online by Stanford University Press and exhibited at the Istanbul Biennale and Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019. With P. G. Wunungmurra, she co-founded Miyarrka Media, an award-winning arts collective based in northeast Arnhem Land whose book Phone & Spear: a Yuta Anthropology won the Gregory Bateson Book Prize in 2020. More recently, she became co-instigator of the curatorium collective, an intergenerational group of anthropologists attempting to compose anthropology otherwise. Jennifer has held many fellowships, including an ARC Postdoc and Future Fellowship, along with visiting appointments at New York University and Aarhus University. In 2021, she was appointed as Professor of Digital Humanities at CDU.
Creative researcher in residence (2022-2024)
Dr Kelly Lee Hickey
Kelly Lee Hickey is an artist and creative researcher living and working on Larrakia and Arrernte lands. Her doctoral research project, Tender Places, developed theoretical and methodological frameworks for unsettling settler colonial land relations through reading, walking and making. She brings to her research two decades of experience in the arts and community development, as a performer, producer and project manager.
An Australian poetry slam champion and winner of the Press Press manuscript award, she has performed at festivals internationally, including the Sydney Writers Festival, Ubud Writers Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival and Bookworm festival, with publication credits including Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit Journal, Solid Air and Going down Swinging. She was the artistic director of the National Writers Festival (2007) and the Eye of the Storm Festival (2013) and has worked collaboratively as an artist, researcher and producer across a range of mediums including radio, animation, quilting and cartography.
CCF Visiting Fellow (2022-23)
Dr Jilda Andrews
Dr Jilda Andrews is a Yuwaalaraay woman, cultural practitioner and researcher based in Canberra. Jilda draws from her heritage to investigate the connectedness of land, story and culture to objects in museum collections.
CDU Researchers
High Degree by Research
CDU Researchers
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