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William Lempert is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute (University of Notre Dame Australia) and a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on Indigenous media production in Australia’s Kimberley region, particularly through collaborations with PAKAM and Goolarri media organizations. He will join Bowdoin College as faculty in 2018.
Education: PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology (University of Colorado Boulder). Collaborative Media Production experiences span over a decade, including nearly two years (2014–2016) embedded in Kimberley communities.
Research interests center on the social lifecycles of Indigenous media projects, analyzing how self-representation in film intersects with systemic underfunding of Aboriginal communities. His dissertation, Broadcasting Indigenous Futures, explores how media production envisions hopeful Indigenous futures amid structural challenges.
Publications emphasize future-focused Indigenous media, decolonial methodologies, and the intersection of science fiction with Native American representation. Awards include the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2017) and National Indigenous Television Spirit Award (2016).
Grants and fellowships include Fulbright IIE (2014) and Wenner-Gren Fieldwork support (2014). Collaborative creative work includes film and podcast projects highlighted on williamlempert.com.
Labs/Teams: Active collaborator with PAKAM and Goolarri Media, two Indigenous-led organizations in Broome, Western Australia.
