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The Stanner Award 2011
Judges
Professor Lester-Irabinna Rigney
Dr Rigney is a Professor of Education at Flinders University and is a leading Indigenous educationalist.
He is recognised as a national and international authority in the area of Indigenist Research Methodologies, and has undertaken prestigious Visiting Research Fellowships including Cambridge University, UK; Fort Hare University, South Africa; and University of British Columbia, Canada.
Professor Rigney is in demand as a commentator on national and international Indigenous matters and has published widely on Education, Languages and Knowledge transmission.
Professor Deborah Rose
Dr Rose is Professor of Social Inclusion at Macquarie University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Her work focuses on entwined social and ecological justice in this time of anthropogenic climate change, and is based on her long-term research with Aboriginal people in Australia.
She writes across several disciplines, including anthropology, history, philosophy, cultural studies and religious studies, and has worked extensively with Aboriginal people in their claims to land and in other decolonising contexts.
She is the author of numerous prize-winning books including Dingo Makes Us Human (winner of the 1994 Stanner Award). Her most recent book is Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction (University of Virginia Press, 2011).
Dr Jane Simpson
Dr Simpson is head of the School of Language Studies at the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University.
Her work has included collaborations on language maintenance in Central
Australia, child language acquisition in Aboriginal communities, collecting and
interpreting materials on South Australian Aboriginal history, a learner's guide
to Warumungu, working on Indigenous place-names in Australia, testing a computer
interface for a Warlpiri Dictionary Project, and digital archiving of regional
language and endangered cultural material.