Aileen Moreton-Robinson

Aileen Moreton-Robinson is an Indigenous Australian academic, Indigenous feminist, author and activist for Indigenous rights. She is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people from Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in Queensland. She completed a PhD at Griffith University in 1998, her thesis titled ''Talkin' up to the white woman: Indigenous women and feminism in Australia''. The thesis was published as a book in 1999 and short-listed for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and the Stanner Award. A 20th Anniversary Edition was released in 2020 by University of Queensland Press. Her 2015 monograph ''The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty'' was awarded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's (NAISA) prize in 2016.

Moreton-Robinson was the first Aboriginal person to be appointed to a mainstream lecturing position in women's studies in Australia, was Australia's first Indigenous Distinguished Professor, and the first Indigenous scholar from outside the US to be elected as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held positions in women's studies at Flinders University, Indigenous studies at Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology. and RMIT. She was formerly the Director of the National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network and President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC). She is currently Professor Indigenous Research at the University of Queensland and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures, Australia's first Indigenous led Centre of Excellence. Provided by Wikipedia