Associate ProfessorTanya King

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Associate Professor, Anthropology
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 72149 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

anthropology; political ecology; practice theory; corporeal knowledge / embodiment; marine environments, commercial wild-catch fishing; NRM conflict, gender, pedagogy, science communication, potable water.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS235: Cultures of Law and Disorder
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS205: Anthropology of Poverty and Development
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ASS234: Environmental Anthropology (retired)
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Blood Tests: The Anthropology of Menstruation in Melbourne Government Schools
    Erin Donnarumma - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Community Leaders: From Emotion to Action and Impact on Governance and Conservation
    Lilian Maria Peralta Gordon - School of Life and Environmental Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Perpetual Revolution: People and State in Socialist Cuba
    Marina Gold - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The rise of the anglican orthodox church in solomon islands
    Benjamin Russell Hall - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    South Australian Quakers and Unitarians: A Comparative Study in Modernity
    Jenny Norris-Green - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Comprehensive Health Index for India: Development, Validation, and Spatial Variation
    Meena Sehgal - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Investigating Community Attitudes to Alternative Water Sources
    Christina Semasingha - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Beneath the Surface of Marine Protected Areas: Management, Public Support, and Representation
    Nyree Lilianne Raabe - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2025