Academy Fellow

Emeritus Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson is a Goenpul woman of the Quandamooka people (Moreton Bay). She is Australia's first Indigenous Distinguished Professor and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. Her leadership and contribution to Indigenous studies is across policy, research and global intellectual standing. As Director of the Australian Research Council's National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network (NIRAKN), she developed and led an Indigenous postgraduate and early career researchers national research capacity building program. Distinguished Professor Moreton-Robinson provided policy advice on Indigenous Higher Education to three Ministers of Education, first as Deputy Chair of the Indigenous Higher Education Council and subsequently as President of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC). She led the development of the terms of reference for the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People. Her most recent contribution to building the discipline of Indigenous Studies is her leadership in securing the first ARC Centre of Excellence in Indigenous Futures to advance research in Closing the Gap.

Professor Moreton-Robinson's numerous publications have international standing and global reach across several disciplines such as Law, Anthropology, History and Indigenous Studies. The twentieth anniversary edition of her first monograph Ta/kin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous women and Feminism was released in July 2020 and is a seminal text in Indigenous Studies. Her second monograph The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty (2015) won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's (NAISA) subsequent book prize in 2016. Her edited collection entitled Critical Indigenous Studies: First World Locations and Engagement was published by Minnesota Press in 2016. She is co-editor of the Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, published by Routledge in December 2020. Professor Moreton-Robinson served on several editorial boards including the flagship journal of the American Studies Association, American Quarterly, as well as the Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies, Australian Feminist Studies, Cultural Studies Review and Critical Ethnic Studies. She was the founding editor of the International eJournal of Critical Indigenous Studies. In 2020, Professor Moreton-Robinson was elected, as the first Indigenous scholar outside of the USA, to be an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the same year she was conferred as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and in 2023 she became a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prior to her life in the academy, Professor Moreton-Robinson worked in public

administration and served as a board member on Indigenous community organisations such as the Indigenous rights advocacy organisation: the Foundation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research Action LTD (FAIRA).

2024 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences 2023 - Emeritus Professor, The University of Queensland

2023 - Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences 2021-Australian National University Indigenous Alumna of the year 2020 - Hon. Member, American Academy of Arts and Science

2020- Fellow, of the Australian Academy of Humanities

2019 - Distinguished Professor Emeritus awarded by Queensland University of Technology 2016 - Distinguished Professor awarded by the Queensland University of Technology for outstanding scholarship and leadership in Indigenous education

2013 - Biographical entry, online Encyclopaedia of Australian Women and Leadership in a Century of Australian Democracy in recognition of leadership in supporting and encouraging Indigenous scholars and influential contributions in Whiteness Studies, Feminism, Aboriginal Rights, the Law and Sociology.

2010 - Australian Learning and Teaching Council Neville Bonner National Excellence in Teaching Award.

1. Moreton-Robinson, A. 2022. Monuments, Place Names and Black Lives Matter: Memorialising Captain James Cook, Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society, Vol2, No.1. 67-81

2.   Moreton-Robinson, A. 2021. The White Possessive: Identity matters in becoming Native,Black and Aboriginal. Borderlands, November, Vol20- Issue 2 pp4-29

3. Moreton-Robinson, A. 2020. Incommensurable Sovereignties: Ontology Matters in Hokowhitu, B., Moreton-Robinson, A. Tuhwai-Smith, L, Andersen, C., & Larkin S. 2020. Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies, Routledge, London.

4. Moreton-Robinson, A. 2020. 20th Anniversary Edition, Ta/kin Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, Queensland University Press, St Lucia.

5. Moreton-Robinson, A. 2016. Relationality: A Key Presupposition of an Indigenous Social Research Paradigm, in Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies, Chris Andersen & Jeani O'Brien [eds.], Routledge Press, New York.