Interesting in being a visiting scholar?
We welcome opportunities to host global Indigenous scholars onto Wallumattagal Campus Macquarie University. We also encourage our CGIF network to look for opportunities to welcome and host scholars at their institutions. Please use the button below to get in contact with Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson, centre director.
Dr Liana MacDonald
(she/her)
Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social and Cultural Studies,
Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington
18/11/24 - 29/11/24
Dr Liana MacDonald is Indigenous sociologist and interdisciplinary researcher of Māori descent (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau), whose research and teaching aims to forefront Indigenous experiences of the social world, informed by the nexus between memory, history, people, power, and place. Prior to joining the sociology programme, Dr MacDonald was a lecturer in education and a secondary school teacher. Through centering the lived experiences of Māori students and teachers, her postgraduate research revealed how New Zealand’s state-led secondary school system perpetuates settler colonialism and institutional racism. This work led to many sole author and collaborative publications, including a Higher Education Research and Development Best Paper Award, and editorial positions for the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies and the international journal, Whiteness and Education.
Dr Percy Lezard
(Mnimcelx, They, Them)
Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Studies, Law and Social Justice, Faculty of Liberal Arts,
Wilfred Laurier University
22/11/24 - 6/12/24
Dr Lezard is an internationally renowned Two Spirit scholar whose research and community work promotes Indigenous knowledges, Two Spirit pedagogies, community Indigenous health, missing and murdered women and 2SLGBTQQIA1+, and gender-based violence in 2SLGBTQQIA+ communities. They are a survivor of the multi-generational impacts of the residential school system and the Sixties Scoop. They are an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies and work toward decolonising curriculum and building inclusive pedagogies. They are currently working with Dr Andrew Farrell and together are editing a special issue ‘Queering Indigenous Research Methods’. Many of their publications are presented verbally and in a variety of formats for accessibility for Indigenous communities and those with disability. They are currently engaged in research that is broadly health humanities and are an advocate for culturally safe and life affirming health for 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples.