Dr Max Harwood is a sessional lecturer, unit convenor and adjunct fellow with the Department of Anthropology (Macquarie School of Social Sciences), and a Senior Associate with the NSW Premier's Department Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program.

As an anthropologist, Max specialises in ethnographic filmmaking, and was based in Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Ottawa from 2011-2019 as he completed both his honours and doctoral fieldwork. His PhD studied Turkish and Israeli masculinity, nationalism and militarism, producing both a feature length documentary film and a written dissertation. 

His doctoral thesis was examined by Dr Ahron Bregman (King's College London), Prof Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) and Assoc. Prof Jennifer Deger (James Cook University). His doctoral supervisor was Prof Christopher Houston (Macquarie University).

Before commencing his PhD, Max’s professional background was in Australian native title, where he worked as an applied visual anthropologist, remote community fieldworker and ethnographic film consultant. He remains a partnered consultant with the Indigenous Desert Alliance (Perth).

Since returning to Sydney, Max's research focus is on modern white nationalism and far-right extremism - specifically the online subculture, politics and phenomenology of Australian white nationalists - as well as the globalised phenomenon of Replacement Theory violent extremists.

Max is currently writing a book on the phenomenology of Replacement Theory violent extremists. It is tentatively titled 'Living Death'. 

• Turkish and Israeli nationalism and militarism

• Conscription and state crafted masculinity

• Australian white nationalism and ideology

• White nationalist phenomenology and digital subculture

• Ethnographic film production and the visual mode of anthropology

Primary Lecturer/Unit Convenor:

ANTH3002: The Anthropology of Politics and Power (S2, 2020)

ANTH3021: Globalisation, Conflict & Religion (S1, 2020; S1, 2021; S1 2022)

ANTH2004: Art & Culture (S2, 2019)

ANTH1006: Drugs Across Cultures (S3, 2019/2020; S3, 2020/2021)

ANTH1051: Human Evolution & Diversity (S3, 2020/2021)

Guest Lecturer:

ANTH3021: Globalisation, Conflict & Religion (S1, 2023; S1, 2024)

ANTH3024: Doing Ethnography (S1/S2, 2017- present)

ANTH2024: Mad, Bad, Sad: Cross Cultural Perspectives (S1, 2022; S1, 2023; S1, 2024)

ANTH2003: Food Across Cultures (S1, 2019; S1, 2021; S1 2022; S1, 2023; S1 2024)

ANTH1007: The Anthropology of Religions (S1, 2019)

Head Tutor/Unit Administrator:

ANTH2003: Food Across Cultures (S1, 2019; S2, 2020)

ANTH1050: Introduction to Anthropology (S2, 2019) 

ANTH1007: The Anthropology of Religions (S1, 2019; S2, 2020)

Tutor/Marker:

ARTS1000: Humanities & The World (S1, 2020)

ANTH1051: Human Evolution & Diversity (S1, 2020)

ANTH2004: Art & Culture (S1, 2019)

ANTH1050: Introduction to Anthropology (S2, 2019; S2, 2021) 

ANTH1007: The Anthropology of Contemporary Religions (S1, 2019)

ANTH2003: Food Across Cultures (S1, 2018; S1, 2019; S1, 2021)

Postgraduate Supervision:

MRes co-supervisor (2022-present)

MRes internship supervisor (S2, 2020)

Max is the founder and festival co-director of the Macquarie University International Ethnographic Film Festival (MUIEFF), hosted within the Department of Anthropology.

Since 2017, Max has organised and hosted a two week annual ethnographic filmmaking workshop for undergraduate anthropology students in both ANTH2004 and ANTH3024.