Professor Anne Pattel-Gray is the Academic Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies at the University of Queensland. Professor Pattel-Gray has an earned Ph.D. from the University of Sydney awarded in 1995 in the Studies of Religion with the major focus on Aboriginal Religion and Spirituality plus a Doctor of Divinity from India awarded in 1997. She is a recognized scholar, theologian, activist and prolific writer with many chapters and authored publications.
She is currently appointed Commissioner to the World Council of Churches (WCC), Commission for World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) and a member of the Ecumenical Indigenous Peoples Network. Professor Pattel-Gray is a recognised expert in de-colonising biblical narratives and developing Indigenous theology, reinterpreting biblical narratives through an Indigenous cultural lens, she brings significant insights into the cultural knowledge and religious life of Aboriginal people and Blak women’s perspective, exposing historical truth of colonisation and missionisation and its impact on Aboriginal Nations peoples of Australia.
