Amanda Kearney
Short-term Researcher, SCAS.
Professor of Anthropology, San Diego State University.
Honorary Professor, Australian National University
Dr. Amanda Kearney is an Australian anthropologist whose work centres on human resilience, kinship and future security for Indigenous communities and the environments they care for. For nearly three decades she has partnered with Yanyuwa families in the Gulf of Carpentaria, co-developing research to safeguard Indigenous Law, language and cultural memory. Her broader research program addresses kincentric ecology, cultural and environmental wounding and healing, plural science, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the defence of land and sea rights in a time of ecological precarity. Kearney advances ‘post-conventional anthropology’: an approach that explicitly ties anthropology to a broader social contract; integrating praxis, diplomacy, ethics, reflexivity and creativity to expand the discipline’s social responsiveness and practical engagement.
Amanda Kearney is in residence late April - early May 2026.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2025-26.