Rate My Professor Sue Anderson

Dr Sue Anderson is a researcher in the School of Society and Culture within the College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences at Adelaide University. She holds a BA, an M.Litt. in Anthropology and Paleoarchaeology, and a PhD in Cultural Studies. Her research specializations include oral history, Indigenous culture and history, and Australian history. Her current research focuses on Australian and Aboriginal oral and archival history. She has worked for 25 years with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities as an oral historian, archaeologist, and cultural consultant. Anderson teaches courses such as HUMS 3044 Oral History Workshop: People and Place, HUMS 1035 Aboriginal Cultures, ABT 15 Aboriginal People, History and Colonialism, PHIL 3008 Aboriginal Philosophy: Contesting Knowledge in Social Science, SOCU 3035 Aboriginal Rights and Interculturality, and HUMS 3045 Things that Matter: The Material Culture of Australia's Past. She is the immediate past President of Oral History Australia, served as Editor of its Journal from 2011 to 2018, and is the current President of the International Oral History Association.

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students, Dr Anderson is principal supervisor for doctoral candidates including Dante DeBono on increasing fictional queer representation through textual intervention and Carly Heinrich on re-imagining fat and disrupting Australian fatphobia using Aboriginal oral histories. Her major publications include the co-authored book Doreen Kartinyeri: My Ngarrindjeri Calling (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2008); journal articles "Aboriginal Task Force: Australia's first national program dedicated to transitioning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people into university education" (Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2015), "Putting black words on white paper: collaborative life writing - some processes" (Oral History Association of Australia Journal, 2011), and "The theory and practice of 21st century pedagogies in the oral history classroom" (Our Schools/Our Selves, 2016 Winter Special Issue); and the book chapter "Yarning up oral history: an Indigenous feminist analysis" in Beyond Women's Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2018).