Diane Austin-Broos | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
Nationality | Australian |
Title | Professor Emeritus |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Chicago |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Anthropology of Jamaica and Central Australia |
Institutions | University of Sydney Monash University |
Diane Joyce Austin-Broos (born 1946) is an anthropologist from Australia. [1] She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney;her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia. [2]
Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946,and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University,where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy,followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 1969 she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and completed a doctorate in anthropology there in 1974. Austin-Broos returned to Australia the same year. [1]
Austin-Broos lectured in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Monash University in Melbourne for over five years;in 1980 moved to a position in anthropology at the University of Sydney. She became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1995,a position she held until her retirement in 2008. She was then appointed professor emerita. [1]
While teaching at the University of Sydney,Austin-Broos introduced two major courses,on social change and the history of anthropological thought,to the anthropology curriculum. She also led a redesign of the first year course and supervised doctoral theses on a wide range of topics. [1]
Austin-Broos is an elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1990) [3] and a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Australian Caribbean Scholars Association. Her 2011 book A Different Inequality was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction). [2] She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN). [4]
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