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About Diane Bell
- Diane Robin (Di) Bell (born 11 June 1943) is an Australian feminist anthropologist, author and activist.
- She has a particular focus on the Aboriginal people of Australia, Indigenous land rights, human rights, Indigenous religions, violence against women, and on environmental issues.
- She is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Writer and Editor in Residence at Flinders University, South Australia.
- Bell was born in and grew up in Melbourne.
- In 2005, after 17 years in the United States, she returned to Australia and worked on a number of projects in South Australia.
- Bell lives and writes in Canberra.Her books include Daughters of the Dreaming (1983/93); Generations: Grandmothers, mothers, and daughters (1987); Law: The old and the new (1980); Religion in Aboriginal Australia (co-edited 1984); and Radically Speaking: Feminism reclaimed (co-edited 1996).
- Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A world that is, was, and will be (1998) won a NSW Premier's Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award, the Queensland Premier's History Award and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medallion.
- Evil: A novel (2005) was made into a play and performed in DC and Adelaide.
- She also wrote Kungun Ngarrindjeri Miminar Yunnan: Listen to Ngarrindjeri Women Speaking (2008).
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