Katie Glaskin

Associate Professor, BA E.Cowan, GradDipA W.Aust., PhD ANU

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, Discipline of Anthropology and Sociology

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0703-0635

Phone+61 8 6488 3884
Emailkatie.glaskin@uwa.edu.au

The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia

126 Citations

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Biography

Katie Glaskin is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, an editor of the journal Anthropological Forum, and Chair of the Berndt Research Foundation. Her research areas include the anthropology of Indigenous Australia, dreams, personhood, creativity, property, and more recently, extinction(s). Katie’s work is characterised by both its cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary engagements, with publications spanning psychological anthropology, neuroanthropology, legal anthropology, environmental anthropology and the anthropology of art. She has published on dreams, sleep, creativity, personhood, death, memory, emotion, human-robot interactions, perception and aesthetics, property contests and transformations, native title, and law as social process. In 2015, she won the Curl Essay Prize (The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland). Katie studied fine art as a minor in her undergraduate degree and also practices as a painter and printmaker.

Roles and responsibilities

Editor, Anthropological Forum (from 2011-->)
Chair, Berndt Research Foundation (from mid-2016-->)
Member, Academic Consultative Committee
Member, Academic Board
Member, University Cultural Collections Committee

Future research

I am available to supervise students interested in working in a variety of areas, but especially in areas related to a) the anthropology of Indigenous Australia and b) cognitive anthropology, neuroanthropology.

Funding overview

ARC Linkage grant 2014 Murujuga Dreaming (with Jo McDonald, Peter Veth, Alistair Patterson, Jamie Hampson, Paul Bourke, Tom Whitley & Ken Mulvaney)
UWA Teaching Relief Grant 2012
Wenner-Gren Foundation conference grant: Gr. CONF-560 2011 with Rita Armstrong, Greg Acciaioli, Nicholas de Maria Harney, and Catie Gressier

Previous positions

Berndt Foundation inaugural Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UWA, 2002-2005

Current projects

My current research interests and projects are focussed 1) extinctions; 2) dreams; 3) anthropology and art

Industrial relevance

Katie has conducted applied anthropology in the area of native title since 1994, and has undertaken numerous consultancies in this area.

Teaching overview

Undergraduate
-Mind Body Culture (formerly Psychological Anthropology)
-Engaged Anthropology
-Society, Law and Politics (formerly Legal Anthropology)
-Aboriginal Art and Society
-Environment, Landscape & Place

Research

Dreams, sleep, creativity, personhood; anthropology of art; aesthetics; property, native title; customary land and marine tenure; applied anthropology.

Research expertise keywords

Legal anthropology
Applied anthropology
Dreams, anthropology of
Creativity and innovation
Indigenous Australia
Aboriginal land and marine tenure
Native title
Personhood
Property
Sleep, anthropology of
extinctions

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Research Output

126 Citations
18 Article
14 Chapter
14 Book/Film/Article review
5 Other chapter contribution
11 More

2 Citations (Scopus)

Crosscurrents: Law and Society in a Native Title Claim to Land and Sea

Glaskin, K., 1 Jul 2017, Crawley: UWA Publishing. 279 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Anthropology, Dreams and Creativity

Glaskin, K., 2015, The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology. Stewart, P. J. & Strathern, A. J. (eds.). UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, p. 71-83

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter

1 Citation (Scopus)