Research output per year
Research output per year
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Chief Investigator, Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, School of Culture, History & Language
Research activity per year
I am currently leading a major collaborative research project on multimodal aspects of children's language socialization in cross-cultural perspective. Other recent projects have included an interdisciplinary comparative one on verbal art which resulted in the volume Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands. (For further details including a CV and most of my publications in downloadable form, search me on academia.edu)
Career highlights
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, 1978-1995; Research Fellow (1996-2001) , Senior Research Fellow (2001-2010), Professor (2010-2019), and Professor Emeritus (2019-present), College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University; Co-editor; review editor and editorial board member, Oceania 1985-; Advisory Editor, Current Anthropology 2000-2002; Editorial board member, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 1999-2015, The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA), 2008-, American Ethnologist, 2016-2019; Anthropological Consultant to Northern Land Council, 1980-1993, and to the Kimberley, Kamali and Yamatji Land Councils, 1998-2002, 2010; elected to Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2004; Vice President of Australian Anthropology Society, 2007-9, President 2010-11; ARC DORA Professor, 2013-2016; Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, 2014-2022.
Melanesia; Aboriginal Australia; linguistic anthropology; intersubjectivity, child language socialization, sign languages, multimodal communication, comparative poetics
Anthropology, PhD, The University of Chicago
Award Date: 1 Sept 1978
Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities
1 Jun 2004 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
Rumsey, A., Green, J., Haviland, J., Merlan, F., Morgenstern, A. & Ochs, E.
10/07/23 → 9/07/26
Project: Research
Evans, N., Angwin, A., Bishop, J., Christiansen, M., Corbett, G. G., Cutler, A., Escudero, P., Evans, B., Fletcher, J., Gray, R. D., Jones, C., Kidd, E., Levinson, S. C., Lieven, E., Matthews, S., Meakins, F., Meyerhoff, M., Ng, B. C., Nordlinger, R., Rowland, C., Rumsey, A., Simpson, J., Sterelny, K., Thieberger, N. A., Torres Cacoullos, R., Travis, C., Wigglesworth, G., Wiles, J. & Yip, V.
15/08/14 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Rumsey, A. & Merlan, F.
8/02/13 → 31/12/16
Project: Research
6/04/06 → 30/09/06
Project: Research
Pawley, A., Bowden, F., Ross, M. & Rumsey, A.
1/01/05 → 31/12/11
Project: Research