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Lynette Russell AM

Distinguished Professor, and Laureate Fellow, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
Lynette.Russell@Monash.edu

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Core expertise

The Encounter of Australia from the 17th, including the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Makassan interactions and connections
The involvement of Aboriginal people in the early maritime industries
The rise of anthropological thought in Victoria
Aboriginal faunal knowledge
Museum collections.
Aboriginal protectors and ethnographic knowledge
Early Victorian contact history
Indigenous scientific knowledges

Biography

Lynette's research is broadly anthropological history. She's published widely in the areas of theory, Indigenous histories, post-colonialism and representations of race, museum studies and popular culture.