Professor Bronwyn Carlson is an Aboriginal woman who was born on and lives on DharawalCountry in NSW Australia. Bronwyn has been awarded three consecutive AustralianResearch Council (ARC) Discovery Indigenous grants in 2013, 2016 & 2019 for research onAboriginal identity and community as it plays out on digital platforms such as social media.Bronwyn was recipient of the 2013 prestigious W.E.H Stanner award administered by theAustralian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and is the author of ThePolitics of Identity: Who Counts as Aboriginal Today? (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2016). In2019 Bronwyn was the keynote for the Cultural Studies Association of Australia conferenceBook Proposal - Scholarly/Academic 2where she delivered a keynote entitled: Breaking with the past, dis(re)membering themonuments. In 2020 she authored the Friday Essay for The Conversation entitled: Taking awrecking ball to monuments - contemporary art can ask what really needs tearing down.She is also the founding and managing editor of the Journal of Global Indigeneity and theconvenor of The Forum for Indigenous Research Excellence (FIRE).

Bronwyn is an activemember of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and a member of the editorialboard for the Journal of Sociology. In 2020 she was elected as a Fellow of the AustralianAcademy of the Humanities.