Samuel Curkpatrick

Samuel Curkpatrick is a researcher specialising in Australian Indigenous music and philosophical issues of language, epistemology and religion. He has collaborated on music performance and teaching with Yolŋu and Warlpiri ceremonial leaders, exploring creativity and understanding across diverse knowledge traditions. Curkpatrick is a research associate at the Indigenous Knowledge Institute and the Indigenous Studies Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. He completed doctoral studies in ethnomusicology at the National Centre for Indigenous Studies, ANU, and postdoctoral research in theology and philosophy at the University of Divinity.