Adam Shoemaker

Professor Adam Maximilian Shoemaker (born 1957) is a Canadian-Australian academic and higher education administrator, and a scholarly authority within the field of Indigenous Australian literature. [1] He currently serves as Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University. [2]

Education

Shoemaker was born in Canada, and holds a BA Honours degree from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada (1979), and a PhD from the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia (1986). [3]

Professional career

Shoemaker has held several positions in higher education administration in Australia, including at Griffith University, Monash University, and the Australian National University. In 2016 Shoemaker was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Southern Cross University. [4]

Honours and awards

Shoemaker is a Commonwealth Scholar. [5] He also has received a number of literary awards, including being highly commended for the Human Rights Awards, and winner of the Walter McRae Russell Award. [6]

Select publications
  • Shoemaker, A.M. 1993. Mudrooroo: A Critical Study. Pymble: Angus and Robertson.
  • Shoemaker, A.M. (ed.) 1998. A Sea Change: Australian Writing and Photography. Sydney: Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
  • Shoemaker, A.M. 2004. Black Words, White Page: Aboriginal Literature 1929-1988. Canberra: ANU Press.
  • Muecke, S. and Shoemaker, A.M. 2002. Les Aborigènes d'Australie, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 428), série Culture et société. Paris: Éditions Gallimard.
  • Muecke, S. and Shoemaker, A.M. 2004. Aboriginal Australians: First Nations of an Ancient Continent, 'New Horizons' series. London: Thames and Hudson.

Online articles: https://theconversation.com/profiles/adam-shoemaker-10833

References
  1. See SCU summary of professional career. https://www.scu.edu.au/about/vice-chancellor/about-professor-shoemaker/
  2. Powell, Sian. 2018. Everywhere man Adam Shoemaker carves a diversity niche for Southern Cross. The Australian. 19 April, 2018. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/everywhere-man-adam-shoemaker-carves-a-diversity-niche-for-southern-cross/news-story/95f14633e329fd74b4f9bdfce4568cd5?csp=be7150067b051a3dc70e4ec745888399
  3. See ANU Annual Report 2001. https://studylib.net/doc/18730030/annual-report-2001---australian-national-university; and see also Profile at The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/profiles/adam-shoemaker-10833
  4. Powell, Sian. 2018. Everywhere man Adam Shoemaker carves a diversity niche for Southern Cross. The Australian. 19 April, 2018. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/everywhere-man-adam-shoemaker-carves-a-diversity-niche-for-southern-cross/news-story/95f14633e329fd74b4f9bdfce4568cd5?csp=be7150067b051a3dc70e4ec745888399
  5. See SCU summary of professional career. https://www.scu.edu.au/about/vice-chancellor/about-professor-shoemaker/
  6. See profile: https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A1136?mainTabTemplate=agentAwards
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