Dianne Rodger Interview
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Dr. Dianne Rodger is a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She has a new 33 1/3 book on Hilltop Hoods' The Calling, which is "a major event on the timeline of hip-hop in Australia."
How did you get to where you are today, professionally?
I am currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Adelaide. This role includes both teaching and research. It’s not a professional career that I imagined when I was younger. When I started University in 2002, I was initially studying a combined Bachelor of Arts and Law. As my degree went on, I found that I was really enjoying the Arts subjects (in particular, Anthropology) and decided to drop Law. I got a major in Anthropology and went on to do an Honours year. At that time, there were some big shifts happening in the discipline with people increasingly doing research in their own communities and with cultural groups that they were a part of.