Marcia Lynne Langton

Marcia Lynne Langton AM (born 31 October 1951, Brisbane, Australia) holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Medicine. In 2016 she became Distinguished Professor and in 2017, Associate Provost. -Life and career Marcia Langton was born in 1951 to Kathleen (née Waddy) and grew up in south-central Queensland and Brisbaneas a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations. Her father had no presence in her life. Her mother married Scots-born, ex-Korean War veteran Douglas Langton when Marcia was a year old. She enrolled at the University of Queensland, becoming an activist for Indigenous rights. Disillusioned with the conservative mainstream political reaction to these issues she then left Australia to travel, live and work in several countries including Papua New Guinea, Japan and North America. -While in Japan Langton learnt about Buddhism and later became a self-described "lazy Buddhist". Wiradjuri artist Brooke Andrew