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Robert S. Fuller

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Adjunct fellow, Western Sydney University

B.A. in Anthropology Gettysburg College, graduated MPhil in Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University, HDR research on the astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples. PhD, School of Humanities and Languages, University of NSW, researching a project in Aboriginal astronomy. Adjunct Fellow Western Sydney University. Works with Ray Norris and Duane Hamacher, both contributors in this subject to the Conversation.

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Adjunct fellow, Western Sydney University
  • 2015–2020
    PhD Candidate, University of New South Wales
  • 2012–2015
    Researcher Indigenous Cultural Astronomy, Macquarie University

Education

  • 2020 
    University of NSW, PhD Ethnography
  • 2015 
    Macquarie University, MPhil Indigenous Studies
  • 1966 
    Gettysburg College, B.A. Anthropology and Sociology

Publications

  • 2021
    Linking the Pleiades to a reawakened Black Duck Songline in Southeastern Australia, The Australian Journal of Anthropology
  • 2014
    The Emu Sky Knowledge of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi Peoples, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
  • 2014
    Star Maps and Travelling to Ceremonies: The Euahlayi People and their use of the Night Sky, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
  • 2014
    The astronomy of the Kamilaroi and Euahlayi peoples and their neighbours, Australian Aboriginal Studies

Professional Memberships

  • Astronomical Society of Australia
  • Northern Sydney Astronomical Society