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Personal profile
Research interests
Native title; social mapping and landowner identification; cultural heritage; maritime frontier history; political ecology; ethnotaxonomy; Papua New Guinea; Torres Strait
Biography
I am a social anthropologist and cultural heritage manager. My PhD research (1995-1998) was undertaken on the Torassi or Bensbach River area of Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, near the border with the Indonesian province of Papua. From 1999-2003 I was Anthropologist in the Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA). Since that time I have continued to work in Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea as a consultant. I have also been a Research Officer/Project Coordinator at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University (2017, 2021-2023) and Research Officer at the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland (PNG-Australia Borderlands Project, 2018). Currently I am Acting Manager, Research Unit and Senior Anthropologist at the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation (2022-2023).
Career Highlights
Anthropologist, Native Title Office, Torres Strait Regional Authority (1999-2003)
Director, Arafura Consulting (2005-present)
Author of anthropological reports for seven native title determinations in Torres Strait
Discovery of mammal species Lagorchestes conspicillatus and Xeromys myoides in New Guinea
Memberships
- Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society
- Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Member, Australian Archaeological Association
- Fellow, The Linnean Society of London
Qualifications
BA (Hons) PhD (Qld) FLS
Expertise Areas
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge
- Agricultural Land Management
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology
- Archaeology of New Guinea and Pacific Islands (excl. New Zealand)
- Pacific History (excl. New Zealand and Maori)
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David Charles Hyndman (1947-2021)
Hitchcock, G. & Hyndman-Rizik, N., 2021, In: The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. 23, 1, p. 135-137Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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WWF's 'Gift to the Earth'
Hitchcock, G., 2020, Too Close to Ignore: Australia's Borderland with PNG and Indonesia. Mark Moran and Jodie Curth-Bibb (ed.). 1st ed. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), p. 245-266Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Manuscript XXXII The Final Fate of the La Perouse Expedition? The 1818 Account of Shaik Jumaul, A Lascar Castaway in Torres Strait
Hitchcock, G., 2017, In: Journal of Pacific History. p. 1-19ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article
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From Missionaries to Mabo: Place-Based Heritage Management and Native Title in Torres Strait
McNiven, I. J. & Hitchcock, G., 2016, The Right to Protect Sites: Indigenous Heritage Management in the Era of Native Title. Pamela Faye McGrath (ed.). 1 ed. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), p. 159-186Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Avifauna of Deliverance Island (Warul Kawa) and Kerr Islet (Awaiyal Kawa), North-Western Torres Strait
Watson, J. J. & Hitchcock, G., 2015, In: The Sunbird. 45, 2, p. 65-77Research output: Contribution to journal › Article