Diane Austin-Broos

Diane Joyce Austin-Broos (born 1946) is an anthropologist from Australia. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney; her major research areas are Jamaica and Central Australia.

Early life and education Austin-Broos was born in Melbourne in 1946, and attended Hartwell State School and the Methodist Ladies' College in Kew. She won a scholarship to the Australian National University, where she studied philosophy and oriental studies. She also complete a master's degree in philosophy, followed by a short time in a research position for Professor Henry Mayer at the University of Sydney. In 1969 she won a scholarship to the University of Chicago and completed a doctorate in anthropology there in 1974. Austin-Broos returned to Australia the same year. and a past president of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Australian Caribbean Scholars Association. Her 2011 book A Different Inequality was a finalist in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Human Rights Award for Literature (non-fiction).

Publications

Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders, (1997) The University of Chicago Press Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia, (2009) The University of Chicago Press A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia (2011) Allen & Unwin