Rate My Professor Donna Leslie

Donna Leslie is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, where she teaches subjects such as INDG30001 Being Indigenous in the 21st Century, INDG30002 Indigenous Cultural Heritage, and INDG40001 Indigenous First Principles. An Aboriginal scholar belonging to the Gamilaroi people of New South Wales, she is recognised as Australia's first trained Indigenous art historian at the doctoral level in the discipline of Art History. Her academic background includes a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from the University of Melbourne in 2004, with a specialisation in Australian Aboriginal art and a thesis titled 'Aboriginal art: creative responses to assimilation'. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Art Curatorial Studies) from the University of Melbourne (1994), a Graduate Diploma in Education (Art/Craft) from Melbourne College of Advanced Education (now University of Melbourne, 1987), a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) from Chisholm Institute of Technology (now Monash University, 1986), a Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Research and Leadership and Graduate Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Melbourne (both 2014), a Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership from Australian Catholic University (2023), and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment from Western Sydney Institute (2012).