Rate My Professor Gillian Cowlishaw

Her research focuses on Indigenous Australian studies, race and racism in rural and urban settings, ethnography, and critical reflections on anthropological practice. Notable books include "Black, White or Brindle: Race in Rural Australia" (Cambridge University Press, 1988), "Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: A Study of Racial Power and Intimacy in North Australia" (Allen & Unwin, 1999), "Blackfellas, Whitefellas and the Hidden Injuries of Race" (Routledge, 2004), which won the New South Wales Premier's Award and Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing in 2005, and "The City's Outback" (UNSW Press, 2009). Other key works encompass articles such as "Tunnel Vision: Part One – Resisting post-colonialism in Australian anthropology" (2017) and "Mythologising culture" (2010-2011). She received an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship in 2006 and was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) in 2013. Cowlishaw's scholarship has profoundly impacted the field by highlighting the hidden injuries of race, challenging cultural revivalism narratives, and advocating for anthropology's engagement with contemporary social issues affecting Indigenous peoples in settled Australia. With over 50 publications and 760 citations, her work continues to influence debates on identity, policy, and power dynamics.