Rate My Professor Zac Roberts

Zac Roberts is a Walbunja Yuin historian and archaeologist from the South Coast of New South Wales, currently serving as Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Critical Indigenous Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies in 2024, Master of Research in Indigenous Studies in 2021, Master of History in Australian History in 2025, and Bachelor of Arts in History and Archaeology in 2019, all from Macquarie University. His research specializations encompass relationalities between Indigenous and other racialised minority communities in Australia, narratives of Australian history, and Indigenous peoples and knowledges in archaeology and cultural heritage. Specific academic interests include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, Australian history including archaeology and cultural heritage, histories of migration and migrant relations, media history, and Indigenist research. Roberts is affiliated with the Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Macquarie University.

Roberts has published key works such as 'A guide to writing and speaking about Indigenous People in Australia' (2021), 'Archaeology and Indigenous sovereignty: an experiential perspective on producing Indigenous archaeological research' (2022), 'Space and Place: Cultural Heritage and Colonial Commemoration at Australian Tertiary Institutions' (2023), 'Settler Colonialism, Jews, and Indigenous Peoples: Theorising homelands as a point of connection in Indigenous-Jewish relations in so-called Australia' (2023), 'Threads of connection and contention: social media linking Australian Indigenous and Jewish communities' (2025), and 'Goanna Walking: a rubric to measure transformation in Critical Indigenous Studies students' (2025). He received the Faculty of Arts Learning & Teaching Early Career award in 2024 alongside Tamika Worrell, the John Mulvaney Fellowship in 2022, and was appointed the 2025 Australian Religious History Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales. Roberts leads projects including 'Unsettling the archive: Aboriginal cowboys, settler memory, and the politics of disappearance' (2025-2026) and 'SLNSW: Changing representations of Indigenous peoples in the New South Wales Jewish Press' (2025). He delivered the keynote 'Archives, histories, and unspoken spaces: Telling Indigenous histories via the spaces in-between' in 2023 and served as a visiting researcher at Monash University in 2024.