Marcia Langton is Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne and won a Alfred Deakin Prize in 2008.
Marcia Langton has held the foundation chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne since 2000. She has undertaken ARC-funded research on agreements with Indigenous people, especially involving resource companies and consulted to mining and energy companies, including Rio Tinto, Woodside and Argyle, and Aboriginal people involved in negotiations, since 1995.
Her essays in Griffith REVIEW include the winner of the 2008 Alfred Deakin Prize for Best Essay Advancing Public Debate, ‘Trapped in the Aboriginal reality show’ and ‘The end of “big men” politics’, which was shortlisted for the 2009 John Button Prize.
Stuart Macintyre, Tim Soutphommasane, Marcia Langton and Clare Wright discuss essential works of Australian history.
