Marcia Langton

Professor Marcia Langton AO, FASSA, AFTSE is a Yiman and Bidjara woman from Queensland. She is the Associate Provost and Foundation Chair of Australian Indigenous Studies at The University of Melbourne and Director of the Indigenous Studies Unit at Onemda in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at The University of Melbourne. In 2022 she was appointed as a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor.  

Widely recognised as a major figure in Indigenous Australian rights and advocacy, Langton was a key contributor to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1989), the Native Title Act (1993) and several policy initiatives. She is currently a chief investigator on numerous research projects concerned with Indigenous health, domestic and family violence, and Indigenous data and governance.

Professor Langton is widely published. Her most recent books include Welcome to Country: A Guide to Indigenous Australia (2021), Law: The Way of the Ancestors, co-authored with Professor Aaron Corn (2023), Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and The University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth (2024), and 65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art.