Felicity Meakins (FASSA, FAHA) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Queensland. She is a non-Indigenous field linguist who specialises in the documentation of First Nations languages in northern Australia and the effect of English on these languages. Felicity Meakins has written 22 books with different Indigenous communities on their languages, including Bina: First Nations Languages Old and New. She has worked as a community linguist as well as an academic over the past 25 years, facilitating language revitalisation programs and conducting research into First Nations languages with Cassandra Algy. They were joint winners of the 2021 Australia Museum Eureka Award for Interdisciplinary Research, the 2018 Northern Territory Land Resource Management (NT LRM) award for the Gurindji ethnobiology poster series, the 2019 Language Section of the national ICTV awards for 15 short Gurindji sign language films, and the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country.
