Gretchen Stolte
Dr Stolte is a Nimi’ipuu Native American and current chair of anthropology at the University of Western Australia. They have degrees in art history and anthropology focusing on the material culture of First Nations peoples both on Turtle Island (North America) and so-called Australia. Dr Stolte’s research areas focus on the relationship between cultural objects and identity and has published extensively about practice-based research, cultural protocols, the responsibility of western institutions in Indigenous cultural spaces and critically unpacking the ongoing colonial project. Dr Stolte's teaching specialises in First Nations curation, research design and the ethics of research, the history of anthropology and colonialism, global material culture research and First Nations Studies.
Dr Stolte has taught across a range of area studies including Indigenous studies, museum studies, material culture studies, anthropology and research methodologies. They have taught at the University of Canberra in their Cultural Heritage and Preservation department, at the Australian National University in their Masters of Applied Anthropology Program and Indigenous Studies at the University of Canberra and the University of Western Australia. Dr Stolte is well-published on anticolonial approaches to First Nation material culture research and Indigenous anthropology and is also a practicing bead artist, weaver and ribbon-skirt maker.