Dr. Garrick Hitchcock

Biography

Garrick Hitchcock is a social anthropologist and cultural heritage manager with significant experience in the field. His PhD research was conducted from 1995 to 1998 in the Torassi Bensbach River area of Papua New Guinea's Western Province, near the border of the Indonesian province of Papua. He has worked as an anthropologist at the Native Title Office of the Torres Strait Regional Authority from 1999 to 2003 and has continued collaborating in the Torres Strait and Papua New Guinea as a consultant. Garrick served as a Research Officer and Project Coordinator at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre and at the Institute of Social Science Research at the University of Queensland. Currently, he holds the position of Research Unit Manager and Principal Anthropologist at the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation in Melbourne. His career highlights include directing Arafura Consulting since 2005 and authoring several anthropological reports regarding native title determinations in the Torres Strait, as well as discoveries of new mammal species such as Lagorchestes conspicillatus and Xeromys myoides. He is actively involved in various professional societies, including the Australian Anthropological Society and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

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