Greg D. Anderson

Academic background and interests

Present Position

2007-

Head of Department of Mission, Moore Theological College

Qualifications

1985	B.A. Double Honours (1st plus medal in Music, 2A in Psychology) (Sydney)
1993	Ph.D. (Sydney)
1994	B.Th Honours 2A (ACT); Dip. Min. (MTC)
2001	Master of Professional Education and Training (Open and Distance Education specialism) (Deakin)
2001	Deaconed (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)
2002	Priested (Anglican Church of Australia, Diocese of the Northern Territory)

Previous Experience

1985	Research assistant, Department of Music, University of Sydney (half-time)
1985	Voluntary Ministry Training Scheme, St Barnabas’, Broadway (half-time)
1986–1990	Ph.D. studies, including fourteen months fieldwork in central Arnhem Land, Northern Territory; part-time tutoring and casual lecturing in Music and Aboriginal Performing Arts, University of Sydney
1991–1993	Student, Moore College
1994	Missionary-in-training, St Andrew’s Hall, Church Missionary Society
1995–2006	Missionary, Church Missionary Society in the Diocese of the Northern Territory
1995–2001	Theology Lecturer and Dean of Anglican Students, Nungalinya College, Darwin
1998	Academic Dean, Nungalinya College
1999	Acting Theology Co-ordinatory, Nungalinya College
2000–2001	Theology Co-ordinator, Nungalinya College
2002–2006	Aboriginal Ministry Development Officer, Diocese of the Northern Territory
2002–2006	Honorary Assistant Priest, Christ Church Cathedral, Darwin
2006	Honorary Locum Tenens, St Luke’s, Palmerston

Professional Activities

1998–2006	Diocesan Translation Committee, Northern Territory (Chair from 2004)
1998–2006	Diocesan Liturgical Committee, Northern Territory
2000–06	Examining Chaplain, Diocese of the Northern Territory
2002	Member, Accreditation Advisory Committee, Moore College
2003–06	Member, Diocesan Council, Northern Territory

Publications

‘Striking a Balance: Limited Variability in Performances of a Clan Song Series from Central Arnhem Land’, in The Essence of Singing and the Substance of Song: Recent Responses to the Aboriginal Performing Arts and Other Essays in Honour of Catherine Ellis, Oceania Monographs 41, 1995, 12-26.

Review of The Didjeridu: From Arnhem Land to Internet, Karl Neuenfeldt (ed.), John Libbey, Sydney, 1997, in Media Australia International, 1997.

Review of Allan Marett, Linda Barwick and Lysbeth Ford, Rak Badjalarr: Wangga Songs for North Peron Island by Bobby Lane, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2001, in Musicology Australia (26), 2003, 136-39.

‘Musical Times: The Interplay between Metrical Time and Real Time in a Central Arnhem Land Clan Song Series’, in Landscapes of Indigenous Performance: Music, Song and Dance of the Torres Strait and Arnhem Land, F. Magowan and K. Neuenfeldt (eds.). Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005.

Research

Murlarra: A Clan Song Series of Central Arnhem Land. Ph.D. Thesis accepted by the University of Sydney, 1993.

Arnhem Land Aboriginal Christian Dance. A research paper presented at the National Conference of the Australian Association of Liturgy, Adelaide, 1998.

Developing Theology Among Vernacular-Speaking Indigenous Australians. A research report by Greg Anderson and Peter J. Carroll funded by the Australian Research Theology Foundation, 2005.

Integrating Indigenous People with Diocesan Structures. A research project funded by Anglican Church of Australia General Synod Research Office, 2005.

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