Professor Marcia Langton AM

Distinguished Fellow

A leading Aboriginal spokesperson, Marcia holds the foundation chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne. Trained as an anthropologist at the Australian National University, and later as a human geographer at Macquarie University, she has worked extensively in Aboriginal studies in Northern Territory and Cape York, contributing especially to land and native title claims. She has also researched and published on associated cultural and social issues, in particular on religion and the sacred, art and film. Marcia is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is Chair of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership.

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