Jason Gibson is an anthropologist and historian with years of experience in cultural heritage, repatriation and museums. He was awarded the Monash University Historical Studies PhD Prize (2017) and the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria Alpha Prize (2017) and 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) and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award 2021. He is the lead Chief Investigator on the 'Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change (1939-1986)' ARC Linkage Project, the 'Anmatyerr Shields, songs and ceremonies project' and the 'After the Return: Re-engagements with Aboriginal Cultural Collections'.
Experience
–present
Research Fellow, Deakin University
2012–2016
Curator, Melbourne Museum
2009–2012
Research Coordinator, Australian National University
Education
2017
Monash University, PhD
Publications
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
2021
Collecting at the Crossroads: Anthropology, Art and Cultural Change
Role:
Lean 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