Dr Kristina Everett

Co-ordinator of Indigenous Studies/Honours Program, Director of Postgraduate Studies

Contact

Email: keverett@mq.edu.au

Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 9916

Fax: +61 (0)2 9850 7735

Office: W3A, Room 308

Education

BSocSci(Hons) in Anthropology, Sociology, & Indigenous Studies (Macquarie)
PhD in Anthropology (Macquarie)

Research Interests

Kristina is a social anthropologist whose work engages with both theoretical and applied aspects relating to Aboriginal Australia and other Indigenous groups in the areas of cultural (re)emergence in urban contexts; Indigenous education and Indigenous Studies. Kristina is keenly involved in supporting and encouraging Indigenous and non-Indigenous teachers and students in generative interactions to develop and define the emerging field of scholarship called Indigenous Studies. She is passionate in researching learning and teaching, especially in Indigenous contexts. Her work employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies but with an emphasis on ethnographic fieldwork.

Current Research Projects

Aboriginal Australians: working with relations.

Kristina is currently involved in a research project titled 'Working with Relations'. She is investigating the ways in which Indigenous people are symbolically positioned as relationally opposite to non-Indigenous people as the two terms, Indigenous and non-Indigenous indicate. This suggests a clear, unambiguous distinction between who and/or what is Indigenous and who and/or what is not. Although this logic is refuted in experience and common sense it is perpetuated in many discourses.

In her three current writing projects, the articles, Not Telling Tales: secrets and the construction of Aboriginal life histories; Swallowed Words: the ethics of not telling stories and her yet to be titled book, she is considering questions related to the problem of representation of Indigeneity in relation to non-Indigeneity and especially considering relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people being denied in the interest of presenting unambiguous identities.

Kristina also has an abiding interest in research ethics and methodologies in Indigenous contexts. She is also working with a research team in Learning and Teaching at Macquarie to develop on-line training resources for casual teaching staff.

Publications

Manuscript in Progress

The Invisible Majority.

The book chapter will appear in a volume edited by Ann Curthoys and John Docker, published by Aboriginal Studies Press. It analyses an ethnographic example of interactions between a particular group of urban Aboriginal people and a group of tourists and their guide when the tourists stumble upon the performance of an Aboriginal ceremony.

Selected Publications

Everett, K. 2009. Welcome to Country ... Not. Oceania (2:1). Sydney. University of Sydney.

Everett, K. 2008. Affecting Change Through Assessment: improving Indigenous Studies programs using engaging assessment. University of South Australia, Adelaide. http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au

Everett, K. 2008. Too Much Information: when the burden of trust paralyses representation. In Indigenous Auto/biography, Monograph 13 Aboriginal History, Canberra

Wynn, L.L, Mason, P and Everett, K. 2009 (under review). Ethics for the Social Sciences. Sydney. Macquarie University. On-line unit.

Everett, K. 2009 (under review). Traditional Urban Aboriginal Religion. In Coolabah, Barcelona. School of Australian Studies, University of Barcelona.

Selected Conference and Seminar papers

December, 2008. Baptism of Fire. Presented at the combined congress of the British, New Zealand and Australian Anthropological Societies, Auckland, New Zealand.

October, 2008. The Poetics and Politics of Aboriginal Stories. Presented at the Warawara Indigenous Studies Unit Research seminar series.

July, 2008. Traditional Urban Aboriginal Religion. Presented at the History, Myth and Memory conference at eh University of Barcelona, Spain.

April, 2008. Urban Aboriginal Stories. Presented at the Macquarie University History Department research seminar series.

July, 2007. Too Much Information. Presented at the Indigenous Biography conference, ANU. Canberra.

June, 2003. Space Painting or Painting Space. Presented at the Macquarie University Human Geography research seminar series.

May, 2001. Turtles in the City. Presented at AIATSIS lunch time seminar series, Canberra.

Exhibitions

September,2002. ‘Visualising Culture’ ethnographic exhibition of photos, text, paitings and artefacts. Macquarie University library by Edna Mariong Watson, Leanne Mulgo Wright and Kristina Everett.

September, 2000. ‘Land, Sea, Sky and People’. An exhibition of paintings representing the relationships between Traditional Aboriginal owners and their country by Edna Mariong Watson and Kristina Everett.

Professional Societies

Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society.

Member of the Federation of American Geographers.

Fellow of the School of Australian Studies at the University of Barcelona.

Member of SEANA (South East Australian Network of Anthropologists).

Member of editorial committee of post-graduate journal, Neo.