Professor Aaron Corn

Inaugural Director
Indigenous Knowledge Institute

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aaron.corn@unimelb.edu.au
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Aaron Corn is Professor and Inaugural Director of the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and Convenor of the Doctor of Philosophy - Indigenous Knowledge course at the University of Melbourne.

He works closely in co-designed research with Australian Indigenous colleagues and communities and serves as Director of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia. He instigated the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance Indigenous Study Group in 2022 and previously served on the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

His best-selling book, Law: The Way of the Ancestors (Thames and Hudson, 2023), was co-authored with the University of Melbourne’s Associate Provost, Distinguished Professor Marcia Langton AO. Together, they also co-host the podcast, The Deep End with Marcia Langton and Aaron Corn.