Eve Vincent is chair of Anthropology in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences. She is the author of  Who Cares? Life on Welfare in Australia and ‘Against Native Title’: Conflict and Creativity in Outback Australia. Her writing has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Overland, The Conversation and Inside Story.

Malini Sur is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Sydney University and President of the Australian Anthropological Society. She is the author of many books, including her latest award-winning work “Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border.”

Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Science at Western Sydney University. He is a specialist in the anthropology of Insular Southeast Asia. He has been Editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA) and is a former Associate Editor of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology.

Paola Tiné is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide (SA) and a Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), commencing 2024. Over the last ten years, she has conducted ethnographic research in Australia, Italy, and Nepal with a focus on domestic relationships, moralities, and well-being, using both qualitative research methods and visual techniques. From her doctoral dissertation, she has produced the monograph Modern Dharma: Seeking Family Well-Being in Middle-Class Nepal and an art book entitled She Fell and Become a Horse: An Experiment in Ethnofiction.

Nikki recently graduated from an Advanced Diploma in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne, and is a member of ANSA’s 2023 executive committee. She owns a small coffee shop inside an art gallery, and has started to exhibit some photographic pieces this year. She is excited to continue exploring how creative practices and methodologies can be combined with anthropology.

Dr Kathleen Openshaw is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Kathleen’s research interests are local migrant lived religious expressions and material religion. Kathleen is a member of the research team for “The African Diaspora and Christianity in Australia” and is currently working on her forthcoming ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch UCKG in Australia. She is a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists’ Integrity Committee and was one of the founding members of the metooanthro collective (now on hiatus).

Emily is a cultural anthropologist with experience working as cultural heritage consultant in Western Australia. Her academic research has focused on exploring non-Indigenous discourses of Indigenous rights, indigeneity, and ethical practice in Indigenous Australian affairs. Her research is applied in the analysis of PBCs stakeholder networks and business operations and she now specialises in working directly with PBCs (Prescribed Bodies Corporate), most recently in north Queensland. Emily is currently working toward the completion of a Masters of Business Administration.

Laura is a multispecies ethnographer whose work focuses on the ontological and embodied practices that support generative connection—whether among humans or between humans and other-than-human beings. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University and a Visiting Princeton Scholar studying somatic approaches to anti-racist education and empathy as part of a larger John Templeton Foundation project.

Catherine Trundle is a medical anthropologist and senior lecturer in Public Health at La Trobe University. Her work engages with the anthropology of ethics, climate change and extreme heat, contested illness and creative ethnography. She also collaborates with diverse ethnographers across the health sciences to build interdisciplinary resources for ethnographic methods.