Frances Morphy

Frances Morphy is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at the Australian National University. In her working life she has moved between academia and publishing, having been a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, Oxford in the 1970s and 1980s. Her academic background is in anthropology and linguistics, and she was an expert witness in the Blue Mud Bay native title-land rights case (Gawirrin Gumana v Northern Territory of Australia (No. 2) [2005]). With Bill Arthur, she is general editor of the Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia (2005; 2nd edn 2019).