Rate My Professor Catherine Martin

Catherine Martin holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology from the University of Western Australia, where her doctoral thesis explored the queue-jumping metaphor in contemporary Australian political discourse on asylum seekers. She also earned a Master of Arts in Migration and Diaspora Studies from SOAS University of London in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths University of London in 2002. Her academic career includes serving as Lecturer and Tutor in Asian Studies at Murdoch University from February 2021 to December 2022, during which she contributed to thesis supervision in social sciences, including collaborative oversight on topics like the role of YouTube in Ainu cultural resurgence alongside colleagues such as Associate Professor Carol Warren and Dr. Takeshi Moriyama. Martin has also held positions at the University of Western Australia, including Lecturer and Tutor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology from 2019 to 2020, and currently serves as Academic Coordinator at the McCusker Centre for Citizenship, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate service-learning units on social justice and civic engagement.

Martin's research specializations focus on critical discourse analysis of media representations, particularly metaphors framing immigration, race, nationalism, asylum seekers, and national identity in Australia. Her peer-reviewed publications demonstrate this expertise, including 'Constructing the postnational citizen?: Civics and citizenship education in the Australian National Curriculum' (Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2020, co-authored with Farida Fozdar); 'Jumping the queue? The queue-jumping metaphor in Australian press discourse on asylum seekers' (Journal of Sociology, 2021); 'The master’s tools: Media repurposing of exclusionary metaphors to challenge racist constructions of migrants' (Discourse & Society, 2022, co-authored with Farida Fozdar); 'Making history: The Australian history curriculum and national identity' (Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2021, co-authored with Farida Fozdar); 'The Chinese Invasion: Settler colonialism and the metaphoric construction of race' (Journal of Australian Studies, 2021); 'Protecting national sovereignty: The ‘Australian model’ and the exclusion of asylum seekers' (Sociology, 2025); 'Influxes and invaders: the intersections between the metaphoric construction of immigrant otherness and ethnonationalism' (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2023); and 'The backward stock of the south: The metaphoric structuring of Italian racial difference in 1920s Australia' (Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2021). She employs methods such as qualitative analysis, archival research, and historical analysis. Currently, Martin is Lecturer in Anthropology and Sociology at Curtin University in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry.