Professor John Maynard was appointed as an Adjunct Professor with NCIS in January 2010. Professor Maynard is Chair of Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle and Deputy Chair of the Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. His traditional roots lie with the Worimi people of Port Stephens, New South Wales.
He has held several important fellowships including the Aboriginal History Stanner Fellowship for 1996 at the Australian National University and the New South Wales Premier’s Indigenous History Fellowship for 2003–04.
Professor Maynard’s remarkable skills and knowledge in the field of Indigenous history will contribute significantly to NCIS’s research outputs, supervision of higher degree research students and providing a mentoring role to many other academics, including early-career Indigenous academics.
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