Kyllie Cripps

Kyllie Cripps is an Australian Aboriginal Tasmanian sociologist who specialises in Aboriginal domestic violence. Originally a professor at the UNSW Faculty of Law and Justice, she is currently Professor at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre at Monash University.

Biography Cripps was educated at the University of South Australia, where she received her BA in Aboriginal Affairs Administration in 1998 and BA with first-class honours in Aboriginal Studies in 1999, and at Monash University, where she received her PhD in arts in 2005.

After spending some time working at the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation's Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit, In 2022, she was promoted to associate professor, and in 2023, she moved to Monash University, where she became professor and the director of the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre.

As an academic, Cripps specialises in Aboriginal domestic violence, She uses intersectionality in her research, which otherwise has included identifying causes and solutions to domestic violence.

Cripps is an Aboriginal Tasmanian. She is married to John.