Professor Sandy Toussaint is an anthropologist, writer and curator. A UWA academic staff member for 20 years, her research and teaching included applied and legal anthropology, contemporary social thought and honours. She has worked with Australian Indigenous communities, families and organizations for four decades, most especially in the Kimberley and south-west, on matters relating to cultural heritage, land, water and native title, family history, community engagement, health and medicine, material culture, exhibitions, and story-telling. Senior Research Officer for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody led in WA by Pat Dodson, Sandy also worked for the the WA Aboriginal Land Inquiry, and Aboriginal Education, She is a former Oxford Research Fellow, Trustee of the 1930s Kaberry Kimberley Collection at AIATSIS, and served two terms as an elected AIATSIS Councillor.  In 2016, she resigned as a committee member of the RM and CH Berndt Research Foundation. She has published five books including Ngurntakura Wangki - Amy's Story with Annette Puruta Kogolo and Marminjiya Joy Nuggett (2014),  Kimberley Stories (ed, 2012), Crossing Boundaries in Native Title (ed, 2004) and Phyllis Kaberry and me: Anthropology, History and Aboriginal Australia. Sandy has authored and co-authored a high number of refereed articles and book chapters, commentary and prose. Driven by practice-led collaborative cross-disciplinary work and cultural ethics, Sandy’s coordinating/curatorial work includes exhibitions such as Martuwarra Jila (Cullity Gallery 2003), Jimmy Pike's Artlines (Berndt Museum 2012, and national tour), Ngurntakura Wangki - Amy's Story (Gallery Central 2013), Warmun Then and Now (2015, Berndt Museum exhibition at the LWG), and Visual Story-Telling: Painting the Future (2017, Notre Dame University, Broome Campus). The Co-Trustee of the Catherine Berndt Estate is a key responsibility Sandy continues to hold. Actively guiding a time of transition, she managed the Berndt Museum at UWA between 2013 and 2015.  A current project (2022 > ), 'Remembering the WA Aboriginal Land Inquiry 40 Years On' is being undertaken collaboratively with Indigenous families and the State Records of Western Australia. She is also an Adjunct Professor with the Nulungu Research Institute at the University of Notre Dame's Broome Campus where she has also been a Scholar-In-Residence. Sandy is a member of the WA Law Society's Old Court House and Law Museum Committee, and a member of the Collaborative Anthropologies Editorial Board.

Trustee of the Phyllis Kaberry Collection at AIATSIS, Co-Trustee of the Catherine Berndt Estate, research grant and publishing review, editorial board of journal Collaborative Anthropologies, PhD and project supervision, Advisory Committee UNESCO's Memory of the World Register Australasia. Former AIATSIS Councillor (two terms), forty years research experience, especially with Kimberley Indigenous communities.

'Remembering the WA Aboriginal Land Inquiry 40 Years On', a collaborative project with Indigenous families and the State Records of Western Australia. Ongoing arts/environment visual story telling project.

'Remembering the WA Aboriginal Land Inquiry 40 Years On', Catherine Berndt Estate, Fieldnote Access Advocacy, collaborative arts/environment Kimberley project.

Applied and Legal Anthropology; Contemporary Social Thought; Contemporary Aboriginal Australia; Medical Anthropology; Honours

Epistemological inquiry and cultural ethics; Aboriginal Australian cultures, socialites and environments; material cultures and story-telling; collaborative cross-disciplinary engagements; legal cultures, histories and human rights; cultural curatorial theory and practice; health and medicine.