Dr Ross L Jones
Ross L Jones is Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous History of the University of Melbourne Project in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. After teaching for some years, he completed a Master of Educational Studies and a PhD at Monash University on the eugenic movement in Victoria.
He then taught in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, after which he took up an Australian Research Council postdoctoral position at the University of Sydney. In 2016–17 he was awarded the Redmond Barry Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria.
Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton AO
Marcia Langton, AO, is a granddaughter of Yiman and Bidjara people in Queensland, where she was born and raised. She is qualified as an anthropologist and geographer. Since 2000 she has held the Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and since 2017 she has held the role of Associate Provost. She is Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee at the University of Melbourne and advises on collections of art and cultural heritage.
Her current research concerns alcohol management and domestic and family violence in Aboriginal settings, and Indigenous data governance and community data projects. She has published in the areas of political and legal anthropology, Aboriginal arts and cultural heritage, Indigenous agreements and engagement with the minerals industry, Aboriginal land tenure, native title, and Indigenous resource management.
Dr James Waghorne
James Waghorne is official historian of the University of Melbourne, based in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. His history of the Melbourne University Student Union, By Students, For Students, was published in 2022, and his history (written with Gwilym Croucher) of the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, Australian Universities, was published in 2020.
He is Chief Investigator on the ‘Expert Nation’ and ‘Universities and Post-War Recovery’ Australian Research Council projects, tracing the careers of university graduates who served in both world wars.