Melinda Hinkson
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Melinda Hinkson is a social researcher with wide ranging interests in people-place relationships. As an anthropologist she has worked extensively with Warlpiri people of the Central Desert and since 2022 with farmers and fruit growers of the Millewa-Mallee region, north-western Victoria.
She is author of See How We Roll: Enduring Exile Between Desert and Urban Australia (Duke University Press, 2021) and Remembering the Future: Warlpiri Life Through the Prism of Drawing (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2015).
She has edited books on the life work of anthropologist WEH Stanner, the Northern Territory Intervention, and identity and visual culture in the digital age. For two decades Melinda taught and researched anthropology and visual culture at the Australian National University (2001-15) and Deakin University (2015-22). From 2014 to 2020 she was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She directed the Institute of Postcolonial Studies between 2019 and 2023.
Melinda is an adjunct researcher with La Trobe’s Climate Change Adaptation Lab, and lives on a dryland farm in the Millewa region of north-west Victoria.
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