Martin Nakata (original) (raw)

Martin Nakata AM is an Australian academic, researcher and scholar in the field of Indigenous education, Indigenous knowledge, and Indigenous Studies. He is the first Indigenous person from the Torres Strait Islands to obtain a doctoral degree. He is also a proponent of indigenous standpoint theory. As of 2021, he is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University. In 2020 he was conferred with Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to tertiary education, and to learning outcomes for Indigenous students". An asteroid in the Koronis family has been named in his honour as 7547 Martinnakata for his contribution to Indigenous astronomy.