Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan (The William Jonas Award) Citation

The William Jonas Award recognises excellence in significant contributions made to Indigenous geographies; and/or excellence in significant contributions made to the discipline of geography by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander geographers.  Associate Professor Corrinne Sullivan is a Wiradjuri woman who has contributed ground-breaking geographic and Indigenous Studies scholarship on gender and sexual themes that has informed policy, practice, services and resources. She has received numerous awards. Although highly published, she was awarded the 2020 Wiley Award for best paper in Geographical Research, and is the most cited paper over the last three years.  Her work published elsewhere is in the top 10 cited papers for 2020. She was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence at Macquarie University and in 2021 was awarded the university’s highly competitive Humanities and Social Sciences Higher Degree Research. In 2021 she also received the IAG Award for Dissertation Excellence. She now holds an NHMRC grant, and is lead CI on an ARC Linkage grant, and co-investigator on another. She is a Councillor of the Geographical Society of NSW, and on the Editorial Board of Geographical Research and Australian Geographer.  We would like to congratulate Associate Professor Sullivan on being awarded the William Jonas Award.