Ian J McNiven is Professor of Indigenous Archaeology in Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, and a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the
Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Professor Lynette Russell AM is one of Australia's leading historians and an award-winning internationally recognised expert on Indigenous histories. She has published books on museums and museum displays, Aboriginal faunal knowledge, colonial history, and the early Australian whaling industry. She is a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor, and was deputy director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage.
