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Jason M. Gibson

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DECRA Research Fellow, Deakin University

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