Annette Hamilton

Professor Annette Hamilton (PhD Sydney University) is a distinguished academic in Film Studies and Media Anthropology at the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales (UNSW). Her career spans cultural anthropology in Indigenous Australian communities (1968–1985) and later focuses on media anthropology in Southeast Asia, with significant contributions to Cambodian cinema history and post-socialist states.

Her research interests include:

• Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Cinema Studies
• Media Anthropology
• Asian Cultural Studies
• Indigenous Australian Societies
• Southeast Asian Media
• Post-Socialist Cinema

Scientific accolades:

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences
• Senior Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society
• Member of the Asian Studies Association (US)

She has supervised numerous PhD students, including Dr. Ae-Gyung Shim Yecies on South Korean Cinema (2010), and co-edited landmark publications like *The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O'Rourke's “The Good Woman of Bangkok”* (1997). Her current project explores the intersection of politics, cinema, and history in Cambodia, with a forthcoming book on *Film and the Khmer Rouge*.