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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
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
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 on 1) dreams; 2) cosmology, person, place; 3) art and perception; 4) extinctions
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
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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
Projects 2014 2016
- 2 Finished
Murujuga - Dynamics of the Dreaming
McDonald, J., Veth, P., Paterson, A., Hampson, J., Glaskin, K., Whitley, T., Bourke, P. & Mulvaney, K.
1/01/14 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Murujuga - Dynamics of the Dreaming
McDonald, J., Veth, P., Paterson, A., Hampson, J., Glaskin, K., Whitley, T., Bourke, P. & Mulvaney, K.
1/01/14 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
Research Output 2002 2018
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
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. 71-83Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Prizes
Nationality
Activities 2003 2016
Chair, Berndt Research Foundation
Katie Glaskin (Participant)2016 → 2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie
Katie Glaskin (Visiting researcher)11 Dec 2014 → 12 Dec 2014
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
2014 Manning Clark House Day of Ideas
Katie Glaskin (Speaker)17 Oct 2014
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Australasian Sleep Association
Katie Glaskin (Speaker)10 Oct 2012 → 13 Oct 2012
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Editor, Anthropological Forum
Katie Glaskin (Participant)2011 → 2018
Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press / Media
Naps at work, second sleeps and shared bedrooms: How culture affects sleep
26/10/16
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media