Liam Brady
Assoc Professor
ARC Future Fellow, Monash Indigenous Studies Ctr
Phone+61 (03) 9905 5244
EmailLiam.Brady@monash.edu
20 Chancellors Walk
Liam M. Brady is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. His research is characterized by an innovative research program designed to challenge traditional, western-oriented approaches to interpreting and understanding the archaeological record, generate new insights into deep-time social interaction, and draw attention to new ways of thinking about partnership-based research practice with Indigenous people.
Since 2002 he has built an impressive record of scholarship that emphasizes his skills and expertise in the broad areas of Indigenous archaeology, anthropology and history, and quantitative and qualitative research methods. His research is published in some of the world's leading presses and featured in key handbooks and top-tier journals that encourage interdisciplinary approaches to studies of human culture.
After being awarded his DPhil from Monash University in 2006 (awarded the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for best doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Arts) he held two successive postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Western Australia (UWA), funded by UWA and the ARC. In 2012 he returned to Monash to take up a position at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre where he lectures on cultural heritage-related issues in a global context (repatriation, heritage management, politics of heritage) as well Indigenous archaeology, the archaeology and anthropology of art, and research methods. In 2014, he was awarded a Monash University Emerging Research Excellence Fellowship, and in 2015 a prestigious Bunting Fellowship from the School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, New Mexico) exploring contemporary Indigenous relationships with rock art.
He has carried out archaeological and anthropological research in partnership with Indigenous communities in northern Australia (Torres Strait islands, southwestern Gulf of Carpentaria region, inland Pilbara, and western Arnhem Land), USA (Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico), and Canada (Algonquin Park, Ontario). Liam has also been awarded over 2.5m AUD in external research funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant program), Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Department of the Environment and Water Resources, and the McArthur River Mine Community Benefits Trust.
His ARC Future Fellowship (2019-2022) project is a partnership with the Palyku Aboriginal community and aims to develop new insights into Australia's past by telling the story of Aboriginal people's extraordinary long-term connections and changing relationships with prominent places. The project builds on new deep-time discoveries in the northwest arid zone by conducting archaeological research at highly prominent and distinctive landforms in the eastern Pilbara region (Western Australia). The project aims to analyse rock art and excavated materials from key sites to learn how these places acted as beacons through time to structure and shape people's movements, encounters and connections with others.
Indigenous Archaeology , DPhil, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Anthropology, BA (Hons), Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada)
Indigenous Archaeology
Indigenous Australians - history
Ethnoarchaeology
Desert beacons: tracing connection and change in deep-time landscapes
Brady, L.
More than artefacts: contemporary Indigenous relationships to rock art
Brady, L., Kearney, A., Bradley, J. & Steelman, K.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Monash University, University of Central Arkansas
The Garrwa Stone Country Rock Art Project: collaborating to preserve and share knowledge
Bradley, J. & Brady, L.
McArthur River Mine
History Places: Wellington Range rock art in a global context
From Artefact to Agent: exploring rock art as contemporary phenomenon
The Wenner-Gren Foundation
3 Audio / Visual Recording
A Place of Substance: Stories of Indigenous Place Meaning in the Southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Australia
Kearney, A. J., Brady, L. M. & Bradley, J. J., 2018, In : Journal of Anthropological Research. 74, 3, p. 360-387 28 p.
New radiocarbon dates from Kirriri 4: extending the 2,500 BP signature for the onset of the Torres Strait Cultural Complex to south Western Torres Strait, Northeast Queensland
Brady, L. M. & Ash, J. E., 2018, In : Australian Archaeology. 84, 1, p. 98-104 7 p.
Rock art and ethnography in Australia
Brady, L. M., Gunn, R. G., Smith, C. & David, B., 2018, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. David, B. & McNiven, I. J. (eds.). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, p. 545-564 20 p.
Determining the age of paintings at JSARN–113/23, Jawoyn Country, central-western Arnhem Land plateau
David, B., Delannoy, J-J., Gunn, R. G., Brady, L. M., Petchey, F., Mialanes, J. J., Chalmin, E., Geneste, J-M., Moffat, I., Aplin, K. P. & Katherine, M., 2017, The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia. David, B., Taçon, P. S. C., Delannoy, J-J. & Geneste, J-M. (eds.). Acton ACT Australia: The Australian National University, Vol. 47. p. 371-422 52 p. (Terra Australis; vol. 47).
Recording rock art: Strategies, challenges, and embracing the digital revolution
Brady, L. M., Hampson, J. & Domingo Sanz, I., 2017, (Accepted/In press) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art. David, B. & McNiven, I. J. (eds.). Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, p. 1-26 26 p.
ARC Future Fellow
Liam Brady (Recipient), 2018
Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching
Emerging Research Excellence Fellow (Faculty of Arts, Monash University)
Ethel-Jane Westfeldt Bunting Fellow
27 Peer review responsibility
16 Collaboration on community projects
8 Grant review responsibilities
5 Thesis Examination
2 Editorial responsibility
The Cultural Significance of the Woodstock Abydos Protected Reserve
Liam Brady (Director)
Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Collaboration on community projects
Australian Archaeology (Journal)
Liam Brady (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
Liam Brady (Editorial board member)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
ARC LP Reviewer
Liam Brady (Reviewer)
Activity: External Academic Engagement › Grant review responsibilities
Liam Brady (Director), Paul Tacon (Contributor), Sally May (Contributor), Duncan Wright (Contributor), Ines Domingo Sanz (Contributor)