Marcia Langton biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Professor Marcia Langton

Author Name:

Professor Marcia Langton

Born As:

Marcia Lynne Langton AM

Other Names:

Born:

31 Oct 1951

Died:





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Professor                          
Selected Works:

Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia - Faculty of Medicine.
Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia - Faculty of Arts - 2007.
Graduated in  at the Australian National University in the 1980's.
Anthropologist for the  Australian Film Commission.
Land Claims Anthropologist for the Central Land Council.
Worked for the 1989 Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody - producting a report 'Too Much Sorry Business'.
Ranger Professor of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of the Northern Territory - now Charles Darwin University - 1995.

Serves on various high-level committees on Indigenous issues including 

Centre for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Directorship of the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management
Chair of the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council
Chair of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership, QLD. 
Federal government appointed Professosr Marcia Langton to a committee looking into reform of the Australian Native Title process - 2008.                                                                  
                                                                  
Order of Australia - 1993.
Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year - 2002 - Jointly with Larissa Behrendt.
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, elected 2001.
PhD in Geography at Macquarie University - 2005
Australia's top 100 Intellectuals - Sydney Morning Herald - 2005.
Australia's top 40 public intellectuals - API Network, 2008.                                                                  
A descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations.