Lynette Russell AM

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

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.

articles

Illustration depicting a blackboard with YES written in white chalk

‘The referendum to entrench it in the Constitution is unequivocally in the national interest’

In a new book, Melissa Castan and Professor Lynette Russell write that the proposed Voice to Parliament will enhance, not damage, our democratic institutions.

Politics and society

Main corridor in the National Archives of Australia

Our history, our nation: Why the National Archives must be preserved

To maintain the integrity of our history, and the ability to tell our stories about our nation, the government should fully commit to the digital transformation of these fragile records.

Politics and society

This ‘Mounted Police and Blacks' lithograph depicts the massacre of Aboriginal people at Waterloo Creek by British troops

The ‘frontier wars’: Undoing the myth of Australia's peaceful settlement

The stories of Indigenous massacres at the hands of colonists need to be told, but there are doubts the War Memorial should host them.

Politics and society

Hands held out holding Australian orange soil.

Episode 32: Culture And Country

Indigenous communities have deep connections to their physical and environmental history, and have been studying and preserving it for tens of thousands of years. Many are now generously sharing their knowledge and understanding, that is passed down from generation to generation, with non-indigenous archaeologists, anthropologists and paleontologists and helping us all to better understand our country, community, culture and history.

What Happens Next?

Episode 35: All Worked Up

In this episode of the What Happens Next? podcast, our investigation looks into the future of the gig economy.

What Happens Next?

Archaeologist Joe Crouch in the excavation pit of Cloggs Cave.

Magic, culture, and stalactites

Two starkly different research projects at East Gippsland's Cloggs Cave, 50 years apart, show the importance of Indigenous perspectives in archaeology.

Politics and society