SABRA THORNER
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Dr Sabra Thorner is an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) from the Mount Holyoke College.
Sabra Thorner is a cultural anthropologist who has worked with Indigenous Australians for more than 25 years, focusing on photography, digital technologies and archiving as forms of cultural activism. In the past few years, her work has increasingly turned towards collaborative and decolonizing methodologies in both research/writing and in teaching/learning.
She is especially interested in contemporary arts and cultural production, matriarchal forms of knowledge transmission, and storytelling as an expression of Indigenous sovereignty. She’s held fellowships from the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Fulbright, Mellon, the Smithsonian and Wenner-Gren, and has published her work in Museum Anthropology, AnthroVision, The Journal of Material Culture, Oceania and Visual Anthropology Review. She is a co-editor of the field-defining volume, ngargee // coming together to celebrate: Southeast Australian Aboriginal Art (2024).
