Dr Samuel Curkpatrick
Research Associate (Research Capability)
Indigenous Knowledge Institute
samuel.curkpatrick@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Samuel Curkpatrick is a Research Associate of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute. He specialises in Australian Indigenous music and philosophical issues of language, epistemology and religion.
Sam has collaborated on music performance and teaching with Yolŋu and Warlpiri ceremonial leaders, exploring creativity and understanding across diverse knowledge traditions. He completed doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, the Australian National University, and postdoctoral research in theology and philosophy at the University of Divinity. He co-teaches with Wägilak singers annually at the Australian Art Orchestra's Creative Music Intensive.