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Diane Robin (Di) Bell (born 11 June 1943) is a pioneering Australian feminist anthropologist, author and activist with a particular focus on the Aboriginal people of Australia, Indigenous land rights, human rights, Indigenous religions, violence against women, and more recently on environmental issues. She is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D. C., and Writer and Editor in Residence at Flinders University, South Australia. Bell was born and grew up in Melbourne. In 2005, after 17 years in the United States, she returned to her native Australia and worked on a number of projects in South Australia. Diane Bell currently lives and writes in Canberra, ACT.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/diane-bell-1642 )〕 Her books include Daughters of the Dreaming (1983/93); Generations: Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters (1987); Law: The old and the new (1980); Religion in Aboriginal Australia (co-edited 1984); and Radically Speaking: Feminism reclaimed (co-edited 1996). Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A world that is, was, and will be (1998), which won a NSW Premier’s Literary Award and was short listed for the Age Book of the Year Award, the Queensland Premier’s History Award and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medallion; Evil: A novel (2005) (which was made into a play and performed in DC and Adelaide); Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan: Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking (2008).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/diane-bell-1642 )〕 == Work life as a teacher, researcher, consultant, writer and editor == Originally trained as a primary teacher in the 1960s in Victoria, Australia, Bell returned to study in the 1970s but first had to complete high school which she did by attending night school at Box Hill High School, Victoria. Bell continued onto university and received her BA (Hons) in Anthropology at Monash University in 1975, and a Ph.D. from Australian National University in 1981 which was based on field work with Aboriginal women in central Australia. During the 1980s, Bell held a range of positions in Australia. She worked for the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Protection Authority in the early 1980s, before establishing her own anthropological consultancy in Canberra. She consulted for the Central Land Council, the Northern Land Council, Aboriginal Legal Aid Services, the Australian Law Reform Commission, and the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. She subsequently held academic posts, first as a Research Fellow at the ANU, and then as the Chair of Australian Studies at Deakin University in Geelong where she was the first female Professor on staff. In 1989, Bell moved to the United States to take up the Chair of Religion, Economic Development and Social Justice endowed by the Henry R. Luce Foundation, at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1999 she moved to Washington DC where she was Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Anthropology at The George Washington University (GWU). As the recipient of a Fellowship in 2003-4, awarded by the peak educational body, the American Council on Education (ACE), Bell also worked closely with the senior administration of Virginia Tech as they revised their curriculum. Bell also served on the Board of Trustees for Hampshire College for eight years. On her retirement from GWU in 2005 she was awarded the title "Professor Emerita of Anthropology" by The George Washington University. On her return to Australia she was appointed Writer and Editor in Residence at Flinders University (South Australia) and Visiting Professor, School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide, (South Australia). Bell is the author/editor of 10 books, including several significant monographs on Australian Aboriginal culture and numerous articles and book chapters dealing with religion, land rights, law reform, art, history and social change.〔(Bell, Diane - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry )〕 She has served on the editorial boards of several journals (''Aboriginal History'' 1979-1988; ''Women's Studies International Forum'' 1990-) and was a contributing member of the Editorial Board for the ''Longmans Encyclopedia'' (1989) Macmillan, ''Encyclopedia of World Religions'' (2005) and the ''Encyclopedia of Religion in Australia'' (2009). Bell was also a contributing consultant to National Geographic on their ''Taboo'' TV series (2002-4). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diane Bell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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