Dr Alison Dundon
Senior Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
I am an anthropologist with long term field research in rural Papua New Guinea and recent research online.I hold an undergraduate degree from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University. I have written and published on sexual and gendered health and HIV/AIDS, the anthropology of Christianity, Israel and ancestral and environmental spirituality, community development and engagement with the state, art, material culture and cultural tourism, space, place and dance, embodiment, emotion and the senses. Gendered and family violence has become a more recent focus, particularly its relational and embodied, as well as legal and political, dimensions and impact. I have also initiated research on Papua New Guineans interacting online for the purpose of dating, finding love, and seeking sexual and emotional intimacy. Recent publications and presentations focus on global connections between Israel and PNG, figured in a localised Messianic Church; Ancestral women, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in rural PNG; the category and study of gender in the discipline of Anthropology, an edited collection on the ethnographic intersection of space, the senses and emotions, and a paper exploring the relational tensions underlying gender violence in PNG, the Family Protection Act and its implications, and the intimacy and intergenerational dynamics of violence in Western Province.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2008 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2015 Fellowship Barbara Kidman Fellowship The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Australia AUD $30,000 2012 Research Award Small Research Grant Faculty of Arts, University of Adelaide Australia - 2011 Research Award Fay Gale Centre Grant Fay Gale Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia - 2009 Research Award Small Research Grants Faculty of Arts Australia - 2003 Fellowship Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow The Australian National University Australia - 2002 Fellowship Visiting Research Fellow Sainsbury Research Unit, The University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK United Kingdom - -
Research Interests
Anthropology Anthropology of Development Consumption and Everyday Life Culture, Gender, Sexuality Dance Development Studies Feminist Theory Mobile Technologies Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies Pacific Peoples Performing Arts Religion and Society Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Journals
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Books
Year Citation 2020 Dundon, A., & Vokes, R. (2020). Shifting States New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure, and Political Affect. Routledge. 2016 Hemer, S. R., & Dundon, A. (Eds.) (2016). Emotions, senses, spaces: ethnographic engagements and intersections. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2023 Dundon, A. (2023). A Family Act: Power, Gendered Violence and the Living Legacy of Social Injustice in Papua New Guinea. In C. Beasley, & P. Papadelos (Eds.), Living Legacies of Social Injustice: Power, Time and Social Change (pp. 21-37). London: Routledge.
DOI2020 Dundon, A. (2020). 'Looking for a nice face': shifting states of marriage and intimate citizenship in Papua New Guinea. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect (pp. 187-202). New York: Routledge.
DOI2020 Dundon, A. (2020). 'Looking for a nice face': shifting states of marriage and intimate citizenship in Papua New Guinea. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect (pp. 187-202). New York: Routledge.
DOI2020 Dundon, A. (2020). Introduction. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect (pp. i-319). New York: Routledge. 2020 Dundon, A. (2020). Introduction. In A. Dundon, & R. Vokes (Eds.), Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect (pp. i-319). New York: Routledge. 2018 Dundon, A. (2018). Gender. In H. Callan, & S. Coleman (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (pp. 205-207). Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiles & Sons.
DOI2016 Dundon, A., & Hemer, S. (2016). Ethnographic Intersections: emotions, senses and spaces. In S. Hemer, & A. Dundon (Eds.), Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (pp. 1-16). Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press.
DOI2016 Dundon, A. (2016). 'Dancing for joy': gender and relational spaces in Papua New Guinea. In S. Hemer, & A. Dundon (Eds.), Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections (pp. 17-30). Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
DOI2016 Dundon, A. (2016). 'Christ was for Papuans': Gogodala pastors and the circulation of Evangelical Christianity in South Western Papua. In F. Magowan, & C. Schwarz (Eds.), Christianity, Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific (Vol. 26, pp. 232-254). Leiden/ Boston: Brill.
DOI2012 Dundon, A. (2012). The gateway to the fly: christianity, continuity, and spaces of conversion in Papua New Guinea. In L. Manderson, W. Smith, & M. Tomlinson (Eds.), Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific (Vol. 9789400729322, 1 ed., pp. 143-159). Netherlands: Springer.
DOI Scopus32007 Dundon, A. (2007). A Cultural Revival and the Custom of Christianity in Papua New Guinea. In Asian and Pacific cosmopolitans: self and subject in motion (pp. 128-144). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
DOI Scopus72007 Dundon, A. (2007). Moving the centre : Christianity, the longhouse and the Gogodala Cultural Centre. In Nick Stanley (Ed.), The future of indigenous museums: perspectives from the southwest Pacific (pp. 151-169). New York, USA: Berghahn Books.
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Curated or Produced Public Exhibition or Events
Year Citation 2020 Dundon, A. (2020). Bani’s Footstep and a Star of David in Papua New Guinea (No. Of Pieces: online) [Exhibition]. https://thechristiannationproject.net/dundon/.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2021 Co-Supervisor Grieving the Great Barrier Reef: Ecological Loss, Adaptation and the Hydrosocial in Far North Queensland Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Ella Chiara Vallelonga 2020 Principal Supervisor Towards a cashless economy: Exploring the concept of economic democracy through cashless monetary instruments in the lives of Adelaide's elderly during COVID-19. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Seenying Lau Meaney 2017 Principal Supervisor 'Natural' and 'Holistic' Mothering: an Ethnographic Case Study in Adelaide Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Jaye Louise Litherland-De Lara -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2019 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Time, Personhood and Sacrifice in the Ritual Pragmatics and Cosmological Dynamics of a Parbatiya Village, Nepal. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Glen Clarke Michalski 2013 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Wanbel: Conflict, Reconciliation and Personhood among the Sam People, Madang Province Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Eric Troolin 2012 - 2016 Principal Supervisor A Critical Evaluation of the Relationship between Microcredit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Bogra, Bangladesh Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Sultan Salah Uddin 2011 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Landscapes of Participation and Tradition: The Australian Folk Festival as Process and Public Event Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Rachel Massey 2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Fermenting place: wine production and terroir in McLaren Vale, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Bill Skinner 2009 - 2011 Principal Supervisor Bacchus on Tour: Tasting Wine and Sensing Place Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr John Claridge 2009 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Exile and Migration of Pontic Greeks The Experience of Loss as Presence of Absence Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Valerie Liddle 2009 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Living Hip Hop: Defining Authenticity in the Adelaide and Melbourne Hip Hop Scenes Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Dianne Rodger 2009 - 2012 Principal Supervisor Consuming Identities: Contemporary Japanese Foodways in a Global Locale Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Micah Peters 2009 - 2018 Principal Supervisor 'There's Always Bits of me in the Art'
An Exploration of the Artist as Cultural and Creative Worker, Social Facilitator and Meaning MakerDoctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Ms Sandra Howe-Piening 2009 - 2017 Principal Supervisor In the Name of 'Empowerment': Women and Development in Urban Nepal Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Margaret Becker 2008 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Rebirthing: the transformation of personhood through embodiment and emotion Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Elise Mary Carr 2008 - 2017 Principal Supervisor "You Can't be a Feminist and be a Daughter-In-Law": Negotiations of Honour and Womanhood in Urban Nepal Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Sarah Faye Eliza Homan
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Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2015 - ongoing Member ASA United Kingdom United Kingdom 2006 - ongoing Member Australian Anthropological Society Australia
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