Jason M. Gibson

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  • DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University

Jason M. Gibson is an award-winning anthropologist and historian with years of experience in cultural heritage and museums. He is the author of 'Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection' (State University of New York Press, 2020) which won the Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award (2021), the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancok Prize and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2021. He has been awarded an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and is the lead Chief Investigator on the 'Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change (1939-1986)' ARC Linkage Project. In 2024 he published 'Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Experiences of Return in Central Australia' (Routledge, UK) and is now working on a book with the Aboriginal community of Laramba about their tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Senior research fellow, Deakin University
  • 2016–2020
    Research fellow, Deakin University
  • 2012–2016
    Curator, Melbourne Museum
  • 2009–2012
    Research Coordinator, Australian National University

Education

  • 2017 
    Monash University, PhD

Publications

  • 2024
    Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage: Experiences of Return in Central Australia, Routledge
  • 2020
    Ceremony Men: Making Ethnography and the Return of the Strehlow Collection, SUNY Press
  • 2018
    ‘You’re My Kwertengerl’: Transforming Models of Care for Central Australian Aboriginal Museum Collections, Museum Management and Curatorship
  • 2018
    Ethnographic Sound Collections and Australian Aboriginal Heritage: Kaytetye Song Traditions Remembered, International Journal of Heritage Studies
  • 2015
    Central Australian Songs: a history and reinterpretation of their distribution through the earliest recordings, Oceania

Grants and Contracts

  • 2023
    After the Return: Understanding Re-engagements with Aboriginal Collections
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2021
    Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change
    Role:
    Lead Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2019
    Returning to Birrundudu
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Berndt Research Foundation
  • 2017
    Howitt and Fison's Anthropology (LP160100192)
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

  • Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • Council of Museum Anthropology

Research Areas

  • Heritage And Cultural Conservation (210202)
  • Social And Cultural Anthropology (160104)
  • Museum Studies (210204)
  • Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History (210301)

Honours

Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Contact Jason for

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