Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is an Australian academic,

Moreton-Robinson taught Indigenous studies at Griffith University in Brisbane and Women's Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide.[10] She was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland. She worked at Queensland University of Technology from 2006 until 2019, becoming Professor of Indigenous Studies and Dean of Indigenous Research and Engagement.^[3] On 17 June 2016 she was the first Aboriginal Professor to be conferred the title of Distinguished Professor there.^[7] She has served as Professor of Indigenous Research at RMIT in Melbourne, and an Indigenous Elder Scholar in Residence.^[11]

Moreton-Robinson is the Director of the National Indigenous Research Knowledges Network, a former Council Member of the Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Executive member of National, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education, President of Australian Critical whiteness studies Association, Member of Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, and has held positions on a number of boards, advisory committees and associations.^[9] Moreton-Robinson established and is an editor for the International eJournal of Critical Indigenous Studies.^[12]

She has been invited to and presented at the

Distinguished Professor Moreton-Robinson developed a masterclass for Indigenous postgraduate students. The program is designed to build research skills and to improve the completion rates of Indigenous researchers. The Indigenous Research Methodologies Masterclass is the only Indigenous-designed and evidence-based model contributing to closing the education gap in Australia.[14]

Contributions to theory

Moreton-Robinson's research and writing has focused on the experience of

• 2020 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The first Indigenous scholar from outside of the US to be chosen.^[5]
• 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Excellence in Indigenous Education for the development of The Indigenous Research Methodologies Masterclass^[14]

Works

Books

• Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed.). 2016. Critical Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  ISBN 978-0-8165-3273-5
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• Aileen Moreton-Robinson. 2015. The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  ISBN 978-1-8597-3629-6
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• Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Maryrose Casey, Fiona Nicoll (eds.).2008. Transnational Whiteness Matters. Lexington Books.
  ISBN 978-0-7391-3221-0
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• Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed.). 2007. Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters. Allen & Unwin.
  ISBN 978-1-7411-5701-7
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• Aileen Moreton-Robinson (ed.). 2004. Whitening Race: Essays In Social And Cultural Criticism.
  ISBN 978-0-8557-5465-5
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• Moreton-Robinson, A., 1999. Talkin' up to the White Woman: Aboriginal Women and Feminism. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Other

• 2004. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, "Whiteness, epistemology, and indigenous representation", in Whitening Race: Essays In Social And Cultural Criticism, ed. Aileen Moreton-Robinson,
  ISBN 978-0-8557-5465-5
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• Moreton-Robinson, A., 2004. Treaty Talk: Past, Present and Future. Ngunnawal Centre, University of Canberra, pp. 18
• Moreton-Robinson, A. 2003. I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Postcolonizing Society in Ahmed, S., Castaneda, C., Fortier, A and Sheller, M., (Eds) Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration. Berg: Oxford. pp. 23–40 (QUT).
  ISBN 978-0-8166-9214-9
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• Moreton-Robinson, A., 2003a, 'Resistance, Recovery and Revitalisation', in M Grossman (ed.), Blacklines: Contemporary Critical Writing by Indigenous Australians, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 2000. "Troubling Business: Difference and Whiteness within Feminism". Australian Feminist Studies
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 2001. "A Possessive Investment in Patriarchal Whiteness: nullifying native title?", in P Nursey-Bray and CL Bacchi (eds), Left Directions: Is There a Third Way?, UWA Press, Crawley
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 1999. "Unmasking Whiteness: A Goori Jondal's look at Some Duggai Business", Queensland Review
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 1999, 'Wrestling Whiteness, on the Journey to Truth, Justice and Reconciliation', Graduate
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 1998. Witnessing Whiteness in the Wake of Wik. Social AlternativesWomen
• Moreton-Robinson, A., 1998, 'When the Object Speaks, A Postcolonial Encounter: anthropological representations and Aboriginal women's self‐presentations, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 275–289, doi=10.1080/0159630980190302.

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