Centre Director
Distinguished Professor Bronwyn Carlson FAHA
(she/her)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Critical Indigenous Studies
Macquarie University
@BronwynCarlson
Advisory Board
The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures is led by an Advisory Board that comprises Indigenous researchers from various disciplines from around the globe who are invested in the objectives of the Centre and are committed to ensuring a continuity of research training and seeding of support and investment from Indigenous peoples and communities.
Future Worlds
(she/her)
Professor, Indigenous Nations Study Program
Portland State University
(she/her/they/them)
Professor and Director of Aboriginal Education Research Centre
University of Saskatchewan
@alexwassenas
(she/her)
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous
University of New South Wales
@LilleyHolt
Intimacies, Relationalities and Locating Ourselves
(they/them)
Research Fellow, Department of Critical Indigenous Studies
Macquarie University
@sandyosullivan
(he/him)
A/Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
Stony Brook University
@PepePierce
(she/her)
Co-Director National Centre for Lifecourse Research, Department of Psychology
University of Otago
@MoanaTheodore
Digital Futures
(she/her)
Assistant Professor, SST Justice and Social Inquiry
Arizona State University
@marisaelena1979
(he/him)
Professor, PVC Indigenous
Monash University
@TrisJKennedy
(she/her)
Sámi University of Applied Sciences
@sarainkeranni
Members
The Centre of Global Indigenous Futures is led by Indigenous peoples and their allies. Membership is categorised under ‘Indigenous’ or ‘Ally’.
Indigenous
We use the term ‘Indigenous’ but recognise it can also be a contested term.
The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures understands that some commonly used terms bear a troubling legacy of colonialism. Other terms have existed from time immemorial. While ‘Indigenous’ has different values in different contexts, it also provides a basis for participation in global networks and institutions, such as the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. There is, arguably, a sense of solidarity among Indigenous peoples globally, particularly when the history of colonisation and marginalisation is similar and terms such as Indigenous provide a way to speak to a global collective.
Ally
The Centre of Global Indigenous Futures includes non-Indigenous allies. Ally membership is by invitation only.
From the perspective of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, being an ally is not just about symbolically supporting the plight or fight of Indigenous peoples—what’s often called ‘performative allyship’. It demands much more than that. It requires a “dangerous understanding” (Tuck and Yang 2012) of the very structures of social, political and economic life, and a commitment to transforming them—even if it comes at the expense of one’s own power and privilege (Carlson and Frazer 2021).