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previous Visiting Fellows
Megan Davis 11 August 2008
- 11 September 2008
 Megan
Davis is Director, Indigenous Law Centre and Senior Lecturer,
Faculty of Law at the University of NSW. Megan's scholarship
involves critical analysis of Indigenous public law issues in
particular constitutional reform and democratic theory and governance.
Her research also includes Indigenous peoples rights in international
law, in particular UN treaty body jurisprudence and the UN Declaration
on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She is also an Australian
member of the International Law Association's Indigenous Rights
Committee. Megan's previous positions include Director (Bill
of Rights project) G&T Centre of Public Law; Senior Research
Fellow (Jumbunna, UTS) and Legal Counsel (Administrative, Legislation
and Corporate Law Section, Legal Branch) ATSIC. She held a UN
Indigenous Fellowship, UNOHCHR, Geneva and participated for
a decade in UN expert seminars and working groups. Megan is
an admitted Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the A.C.T.
completing her PhD at the Regulatory Institutions Network (ANU)
examining Aboriginal women and democracy.
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Professor Paul Chartrand October/December
2007 and March/June 2008
 Professor
Chartrand, IPC, of the Indigenous Bar Association of Canada,
is Professor of Law at the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan
in Canada and a graduate of Manitoba Teachers ’ College,
the University of Winnipeg, Queensland University of Technology
law school and the University of Saskatchewan College of Law.
His main research and teaching activities, as well as numerous
publications, are in the fields of law and policy pertaining
to indigenous peoples. He has held teaching or other academic
appointments at universities in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa/New
Zealand, and the United States. He has served on a number of
high-profile public bodies in Canada, including the Royal Commission
on Aboriginal Peoples. Professor Chartrand returns to NCIS in
March 2008 as a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Travel
Grant Award.
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Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi and
Thomas Rice Jangala May 2007
Visiting
a site near Yuendumu (Northern Territory)
Thomas Jangala, Jeannie Nungarrayi and Georgia Curran
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In May 2007 NCIS supported
the visit to the School of Anthropology and Archaeology
of Ms Jeannie Egan Nungarrayi and Mr Thomas Rice Jangala
from Yuendumu to work with staff and postgraduate students
to help translate Warlpiri Song Cycles.
The project combines anthropologists,
linguists, musicologists, Indigenous knowledge holders
and Indigenous bicultural linguists to record, transcribe
and translate song cycles, some of which are no longer
frequently performed, and, therefore, not being passed
on to the younger generations. Warlpiri songs link ancestral
power with the landscape, emotions and aesthetics, and
are central to Warlpiri religious life. The project is
creating a cultural archive at Yuendumu informed by indigenous
exegesis that is also integrating appropriate aspects
into the world of scholarship and eventually providing
materials for Warlpiri school curricula.
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Dr Anita Heiss September/October
2006
 Anita
is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and academic.
She is a regular guest at writers’ festivals and travels
internationally performing her work and lecturing on Indigenous
Studies. Anita used her time at the ANU to finish her novel
Not Meeting Mr Right (Random House) for which she received the
2007 Deadly Award for Most Outstanding Achievement in Literature.
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Dr Kaye Price (University of Canberra)
June/July 2006
Kaye has worked extensively in the area of
education and curriculum development. She has worked on the
What Works: Explorations in improving outcomes for Indigenous
students report and in 2007 Kaye is working with a team of Aboriginal
educators taking What Works to the Higher Education sector.
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Dr Dennis Foley (University of Sydney)
November 2005
 The
first Visiting Fellow to NCIS was Dr Dennis Foley from the University
of Sydney. Dr Foley's field is Indigenous Australian entrepreneurship.
His research interests include Indigenous small business, Indigenous
micro-economic reform and Indigenous self-determination that
is connected to financial independence. His work on Indigenous
entrepreneurship has been described by Professor of Entrepreneurship
at Swinburne University, Kevin Hindle as ‘seminal’.
While in Canberra Dr Foley looked at potential research opportunities
for NCIS and the University with the ACT Government, ACT Business
and other interested parties.
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