Diane Austin-Broos

Professor Diane Austin-Broos FRSN FASSA
Born	1946 (age 78–79) Melbourne
Nationality	Australian
Title	Professor Emeritus
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Chicago
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropology
Sub-discipline	Anthropology of Jamaica and Central Australia
Institutions	University of Sydney Monash University

Diane Joyce Austin-Broos (born 1946) is an anthropologist from Australia.[1] She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia.[2]

Early life and education

Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946, and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University, where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy, followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 1969 she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and completed a doctorate in anthropology there in 1974. Austin-Broos returned to Australia the same year.[1]

Career

Austin-Broos lectured in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Melbourne for over five years; in 1980 moved to a position in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1995, a position she held until her retirement in 2008. She was then appointed professor emerita.[1]

While teaching at the University of Sydney, Austin-Broos introduced two major courses, on social change and the history of anthropological thought, to the anthropology curriculum. She also led a redesign of the first year course and supervised doctoral theses on a wide range of topics.[1]

Austin-Broos is an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1990)[3] and a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Australian Caribbean Scholars Association. Her 2011 book A Different Inequality was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction).[2] She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[4]

Publications

• Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, (1997) The University of Chicago Press[1] ISBN 978-0226032863
• Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia, (2009) The University of Chicago Press[1] ISBN 978-0226032634
• A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia (2011) Allen & Unwin[2] ASIN B005DXOPBY

References

1. Melbourne, The University of. "Austin-Broos, Diane Joyce - Woman - The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
2. Anthropology, Department of. "Professor Emeritus Diane Austin-Broos - Department of Anthropology - The University of Sydney". sydney.edu.au. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
3. "Academy Fellow – Emeritus Professor Diane Austin-Broos". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
4. "Fellows - The Royal Society of NSW". www.royalsoc.org.au. Archived from the original on 27 September 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2018.