Katie Glaskin

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

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Education, School of Social Sciences

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

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

121 Citations

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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, the anthropology of art, cognitive anthropology and legal anthropology. 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. An emerging area of research interest includes extinction(s). 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.

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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Law Social Sciences

legal process Social Sciences

desert Social Sciences

invention Social Sciences

myth Social Sciences

innovation Social Sciences

experience Social Sciences

cultural change Social Sciences

Research Output 2002 2018

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

Australia, Aboriginal rights in

Glaskin, K., 2018, The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Callan, H. (ed.). 1st ed. United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons, p. 1-8 9 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

self-determination

cultural heritage

restoration

nation state

justice

Environment, ontology and visual perception: A saltwater case

Glaskin, K., 2018, Rethinking relations and animism: Personhood and materiality. Astor-Aguilera, M. & Harvey, G. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, p. 156-172 17 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter

2 Citations (Scopus)

Other-than-humans and the remaking of the social

Glaskin, K., Jun 2018, In : Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 24, 2, p. 313-329 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

colonial age

market economy

ontology

capitalist society

constitution

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

legal process

Law

case law

right of ownership

event

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