Upcoming Visiting Scholars

Associate Professor Katharina Ruckstuhl

September

Associate Professor Ruckstuhl is the Kaitohutohu of the Otago Business School's Te Maea: Māori and Indigenous Economy and Enterprise Network.

She leads a number of research projects, including in the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge, where she is the Vision Mātauranga deputy leader of the Challenge and co-leads the Building New Zealand's Innovation portfolio.

She is also the Associate Director Māori on the Dodd-Walls Centre of Research Excellence. Her broader research focuses on innovation and Māori business, resource extraction, energy transition and Māori policy.

Professor Jeff Berglund

October

Jeff Berglund is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University where he teaches Indigenous and American Indian literatures and film, U.S. multi-ethnic literature, U.S. Southwest literature, and contemporary U.S. literature. From 2016-2022, he served as the university's Director of Liberal Studies (now General Studies). He has received awards for his teaching, service, and research, including in 2008, the university’s prestigious award, The President’s Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2019 he was awarded by the Commission for Native Americans the Cal Seciwa Award for Outstanding Faculty in recognition of “great contributions in support of Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaskan Natives on the NAU campus.” He was recipient of the 2022 Research and Creative Activity NAU Award for Most Significant Research/Scholarly Work for his work on The Diné Reader.

Professor Monica Alexandria Brown

October

Dr. Monica Brown, Professor of English, is a specialist in Chicanx, Latinx, African American, and U.S. Multi-Ethnic literature. She is the author of Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives (U of Minnesota press, 2002), and numerous book chapters, including “Women’s Studies and Chicana/Latina Studies: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future.” Coauthored with Miroslava Chávez-Gárcia in Women’s Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics and “Sin Vergüenza: Resisting Body Shame in Real Women Have Curves and Caramelo,” co-authored with Jeff Berglund in Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular, and “Latinx Children’s Biographies: Inspiring Transformation and Transcendence.” Language Arts 96.3 (January 2019).

Professor Michelle Harris

October

Michelle Harris’ scholarly writings have focused on several areas including acculturation and stress among immigrant Americans, how racial discrimination affects the mental health and well-being of Blacks in the United States, and the effects of sociodemographic factors and stress on the mental health of Jamaican adults. She has also published in the area of critical race theory. Dr. Harris envisioned and convened the first meeting of the Working Group on Emergent Identities (2009) when her research interest shifted to issues of identity construction and performance among Indigenous Peoples around the world.

Her co-edited volume, The Politics of Identity: Emergent Indigeneity (Sydney University Press, 2013) resulted from those efforts.  Her most recent book (with Sherrill Sellers, Orly Clerge and Frederick Gooding, Jr.), Stories From the Front of the Room (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) addresses how higher education faculty of color overcome challenges and thrive in the academy.  She continues to write about social and emotional responses to race-related discrimination and issues related to Indigeneity, and Indigenous peoples around the world.  

Interested 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. For expressions of interest please fill out the form below.

Past visiting scholars