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Qualifications

• 1964:   B.A. Dip. Ed. (University of Sydney)
• 1976:   PhD (Macquarie University)
  

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Research

Books and Monographs

2002:  Who Is that Woman? The Australian Women's Weekly in the Postwar Years.  With Sue Sheridan, Barbara Baird and Kate Borritt, Kensington: University of New South Wales Press, pp. 250

1997:   An Information Paper on Services for Termination of Pregnancy in Australia. [with J.Dwyer, B.Buttfield, J.Need, C. Reynolds, M. Ripper and A.Watkins]. Prepared by an Expert Panel of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra: pp.67

1996:  The Aboriginal Tasmanians. Second edition, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards,  New South Wales, pp.380

1996:  Contributing editor, Journal of Australian Studies, No.48, special issue: Secret Women's Business: Hindmarsh Island Affair, pp.96

1994:   We Women Decide: Women's Experiences of Seeking Abortion in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania, 1985-1992. [with Margie Ripper and Barbara Buttfield] Women's Studies Unit, Flinders                 University of South Australia, Bedford Park: pp.214

1991:   A Bibliography of Australian Women's History [with Susan Magarey].  Australian Historical Association, Bibliographies in Women's History No.6, University of Melbourne, Melbourne: pp.70

1991:   Guest Editor, The Australian Universities Review, Special Issue, Women's Studies in Australia, vol.34, no.2,. pp.48

1981:    The Aboriginal Tasmanians.  University of British Columbia Press,  Vancouver and University of Queensland Press, St Lucia: pp.315

In Press:

2011:   ed. with Philip Dwyer, Theatres of Violence: Revisiting the Massacre in History.   Berghahn Books, New York 

In Preparation:

2011:    The Tasmanian Aborigines: A History, Allen & Unwin [manuscript due October 2010]

Book Chapters

2010:    'Remembering Massacre on the Colonial Frontier in Tasmania', in John Docker and Frances Peters-Little & Ann Curthoys (eds) Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia. Canberra.  Click here for ANU E Press version  

2008:     'Historians, Friendly Mission and the Contest for Robinson and Trukanini', in Anna Johnston and Mitchell Rolls (eds), Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to 'Friendly Mission'. Quintus Publishing, Hobart: pp.147-160

2004:     'Australian Studies - the Germinal Texts: 1978-1982', in David Carter et.al (eds), Thinking Australian Studies: teaching across cultures. University of Queensland Press, St Lucia: pp 42-59

2003:     'Who is the fabricator?' in Robert Manne (ed.) Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Black Inc. Press, Melbourne, pp.230-258

2003:    'Waterloo Creek, northern New South Wales, 1838', in Bain Attwood & S.G. Foster (eds.) Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience. National Museum of Australia, Canberra, pp.33-43

2002:   'Remembering the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1950s', in Susan Sheridan et.al., Who Was That Woman? The 'Australian Women's Weekly' in the Post War Years. UNSW Press, Sydney: 33-43

1996:    'The struggle for recognition: part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the nineteenth Century', in Valerie Chapman and Peter Read (eds) Terrible Hard Biscuits: A Reader in Aboriginal History. Allen & Unwin, Sydney:  94-122

1995:    'From Stridency to Silence: the policing of convict women, 1803-1853' in Dianne Kirkby (ed), Sex Power and Justice. Historical perspectives on Law In Australia. Oxford University Press, Melbourne: 94-122

1994:    'Women's Studies in Australia' [with Susan Magarey and Susan Sheridan] In N.Grieve and A. Burns (eds) Australian Women: Contemporary Feminist Thought. Oxford University Press, Melbourne: 285-295

1990:     'Aborigines and Islanders' in A. Patience and B. Heads (eds) From Fraser to Hawke. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne: 394-408

1990:     'Feminism and the Federal Bureaucracy 1973-1983', in S.Watson (ed) Playing  the State. Allen & Unwin, Sydney: 71-84

1987:    'At the boundaries' [with Marian Aveling], in A. Atkinson and M Aveling (eds) Australians in 1838. Fairfax, Syme & Weldon Associates, Sydney: 21-63

1986:    'The Nueonne of Bruny Island' [with Sandra Bowdler] in J.Mulvaney and J.P.White (eds) Australians in 1788. Fairfax, Syme &Weldon Associates, Sydney: 308-329

1985:    'Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders' in Allan Patience (ed) The Bjelke-Petersen Premiership 1968-1983: Issues in Public Policy. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne: 114-130

1984:     'Griffith University, Land Rights and the Commonwealth Games', in Paul Reynolds (ed) Brisbane and the Commonwealth Games. Centre for  Australian Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane

1982:     'Federal policies on land rights; an overview of the Seventies', in Erik Olbrei (ed) Black Australians: the prospects for change. James Cook University, Townsville: 87-94

In Press:

 

2011:     'Settler Massacre on the colonial frontier in Victoria, Australia', in Philip Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan eds, Theatres of Violence: Revisiting the Massacre in History, Berghahn Books, New York

2011:    'Introduction', in Philip G. Dwyer and Lyndall Ryan eds. Theatres of Violence: Revisiting the Massacre in History Berghahn Books, New York

Refereed Journal Articles

2010:   'Settler Massacre on the colonial frontier in Port Phillip 1835-1851'  Journal of Australian Studies,  Vol. 34, No. 3: 257-273.   

2009:   ' "The long shadows of remembrance": Remembering the debate about massacre in the Black War in Tasmania', Coolabah,Vol.3 :51-59 online journal http:www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/welcome.html

2008:   'Massacre in the Black War in Tasmania 1823-1834: a case study of the Meander River Region, June 1827', Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 10, No.4: 479-499

2008:   'Irynej Skira (1950-2005): A Scientific Life", Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 142, no.1:1-12

2007:  'Abduction and Multiple Killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835':  Working Papers, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University,  http://www.yale.edu/gsp/colonial/Aborigines_in_Tasmania.doc

2006:   'Massacre in Tasmania: How do we know?'  Australia and New Zealand Law and History Journal,        http//www.anzlhsejournal.auckland.ac.nz/pdfs- 2006/Paper-6-:1-21

2005:  'Shopping Malls: Reading the Central Coast of NSW', Journal of Australian Studies, No.29, 153-60.

2004:  'Risdon Cove and the Massacre of 3 May 1804: Their Place in Tasmanian History', Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol.9: 107-123.

2004:   'Mother and Daughter Feminists, 1969-1973. Or why didn't Edna Ryan join Women's Liberation?', Australian Feminist Studies, vol.19, no.43: 75-86

2003:   'Reflection by a Target of a Media Witch Hunt', History Australia, Vol. I., No.1:105-109

2003:   'The Right Book for the Right Time?' Labour History, No.85:202-6

2002:   'The Dilemma of the Daughter Biographer. Notes towards writing a biography Of my mother, Edna Ryan (1904-1997)', School of Humanities Working Papers, Vol.1: 1-10

2001:   '1961: A Turning Point for Women? The Debate about Women and Universities in the Australian Women's Weekly', Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Vol.6, No.2:45-61

2001:   'Challenging Equality Masculinism: Edna Ryan's Struggle for Equal Pay: 1958-1973', in Phil Griffiths and Rosemary Webb (eds) Proceedings of the 7th National Labour History Conference, Australian National University, Canberra: 215-222

1998:   'The Role of the "Withdrawal Method" in the Control of Abortion' [with Margie Ripper], Australian Feminist Studies, Vol.13, and No.28: 313-321

1996:   'Origins of a Royal Commission', in Journal of Australian Studies, No, 48: 1-12

1995:   'From Handmaiden to Equal Partner: the Relationship between Women's Studies and the Women's Movement in Australia', Alam-e-Niswan:Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies, Vol.2, No.2: 1-10

1991:    'Writing a Short Feminist History of Australia: Structure and Methodology', Hecate, vol.17, No.1: 22-30

1988:     'Una Sociedad Nuera', Historica, Ano xiii, no.6: 52-57

1986:     'A.A. Morrison: An Appreciation', Journal of the Royal Historical Society Of Queensland, Vol. XII, No.3: 285-296

1987:     'Women and Home in Australia', Australian Feminist Studies, No.4:177-188

1986:     'Aboriginal Women and Agency in the Process of Conquest: A Review of Some Recent Work', Australian Feminist Studies, No.2:35-44.

1986:     'Reading Aboriginal Histories', Meanjin, Vol. 45, No.1: 49-57

1985:     'Extinction Theorists and the Tasmanian Aborigines: Apologists for an Extermination Policy', Cultural Survival, no.18:47-54

1977:     'The Struggle for Recognition: Part-Aborigines in Bass Strait in the Nineteenth Century', Aboriginal History Vol. 1: Part 1: 27-51 Melbourne: 305

1972:     'Outcasts in White Tasmania', Mankind, Vol. 8, No. 4:249-54

Entries in Encyclopedias, Companions and Biographical Dictionaries

2008:   'Chronological Index: List of multiple killings of Aborigines in Tasmania: 1804-1835', Online Encyclopaedia of Mass Violence, edited by Jacques Semelin, http://www.massvioence.org/:List-of-multiple-killings-in-Tasmania-1804-cs- pp.1-15, Length: 11,103 words 

2004:  'George Augustus Robinson 1788-1866' Entry in Oxford Dictionary of  National Biography. Oxford University Press, Oxford Online: www.oxforddnb.com/articles/52/52427-article.html 2004

1998:  'Women's Studies' and 'Edna Ryan', Entries in Barbara Caine (ed) Australian Feminism: A companion. Oxford University Press, Melbourne: 365-369 and 483-4

1997:    'Trukanini', in S. Macintyre et.al (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Australian History. Oxford University Press, Melbourne: 651-2

1988:     'Truganini' in Heather Radi (ed) 200 Australian Women. Redress Press, Sydney, pp. 198-200

1976:     'Trugernanner' in G. Serle and Russel Ward (eds) Australian Dictionary of  Biography Vol.6:1851-1890. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne,

Non-refereed Journal Articles

2001:    'Aboriginal History Wars', Australian Historical Association  Bulletin, No.92:31-37

1997:    'The Struggle for Trukanini 1830-1997', in Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings, Vol.44, No.3:153-173

1995:      'Aboriginal Politics in Tasmania 1975-1995', Island, No. 64: 26-51

1992:      'Convict Women Reconsidered', The Australian History Teacher, No. 19: 15-25

1991:       'Women's Studies in Australian Higher Education: Introduction and Brief History', in L.Ryan (ed), The Australian Universities Review, Special Issue on Women's Studies in Australian Universities: 2-7

1991:        'The Governed: Convict Women in Tasmania 1803-1853', Bulletin for the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol.3, No.1: 37-51

1990:      'Patterns of Migration in Tasmania: The Aboriginal Experience', in Bulletin for the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 2, No.2: 4-14

1988:      'Australian Studies and Women's Studies', Australian Studies No.9: 63-72

1987:       'The Survivors: Tasmanian Aboriginals and the Bicentennial', in Island, No.32: 52-59

1982:       'The Museum of Australia Conference: An Attempt at Public History',  Australian Historical Association Bulletin No.31:15-20

1982:      'The Current Status of the Tasmanian Aborigines', Newsletter of the Royal Society of Tasmania, Launceston: 3-12

1980:        'Aboriginal Policy in Australia -1838- A Watershed', The Push from the Bush, No.8:25-34

1972:        'The Extinction of the Tasmanian Aborigines: Myth and Reality', Papers and Proceedings of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Vol.16:61-77

Public Lectures

2009:    'How Many? The doctrine of the self-exterminating and its influence on the historical debate about estimating the Aboriginal population in Tasmania in 1803'. Riawunna, University of Tasmaia, Hobart Campus, 2 April

2008:    'Massacre in Tasmania: How Do We Know?' University of Wollongong, May

2006:    'Massacre in Tasmania: How Do We Know?'   Barr Smith Library Research Lecture Series, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, November

2005:    'Feisty Women: Betty Pybus and Edna Ryan'. Inaugural Betty Pybus Memorial Lecture, Friends School, Hobart, October

2004:    'Risdon Cove: Contested Site in Tasmanian History', Plenary Address:  Australian Historical Association Conference, Newcastle, NSW, July

2003:     'Counting and Numbers: Estimating the Aboriginal Population in Tasmania in 1803'. Ken Elford Memorial Lecture, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, November

1998:    'Imagined Republics: Australia in the 21st Century'. Inaugural Lecture, Foundation Chair in Australian Studies, University of Newcastle 

1997:    'The Struggle for Trukanini', Peter Eldershaw Memorial Lecture, Tasmanian Historical Research Association, Hobart, April

1985:    'The Queensland Government and Aboriginal Policy Making 1859-1984'. Griffith University Research Lecture, Brisbane

Book Reviews (since 1998)

2009:      Review of John Mulvaney, "The axe had never sounded": Place, People and Heritage of Recherche Bay, in Australian Archaeology, No 68, June: 74-6

2009:     'Affectionate Intensity'. Review of Roslyn Russell, ed., Ever Yours, Manning Clark. Allen & Unwin, 2008, in Overland 194: 84-6

2008:     'Race, Nation, History: A Conference in Honour of Henry Reynolds, Canberra, 29-30 August 2008', Labour History, No.95: 247-9

2008:     'Assimilating Australia'. Review of Jennifer Clark, Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the Sixties to Australia; Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970; and Sally Morgan (eds), Heartsick for Country: Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation, in Overland, 193: 91-2

2008:     'Forged by War', Review of James Boyce, Van Diemen's Land, in Overland, 191: 83-4

2008:     Review of John Mulvaney & Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe (eds), Rediscovering Recherche Bay and John Mulvaney, 'The axe had never sounded': place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania, in Historical Records of Australian Science, Vol.19: 104-8

2007:       A. Dirk Moses (ed) 2004: Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History.  Holocaust And Genocide Studies: 166-169.

2007:       'States of Play'. Review of Raymond Evans, A History of Queensland, and Beverley Kingston, A History of New South Wales, in Overland, 189: 45-6

2003:       'Culture of Forgetting'. Review of Ross Gibson, Seven Versions of an Australian Badland, Mark McKenna, Looking for Blackfellas' Point, and Rebe Taylor, Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, In Australian Book Review, February, pp.18-19

2002:       'New Perspectives on Frontier Wars', Review of John Connor, The Australian Frontier Wars, in Australian Book Review, November: p.38.

1998:       'Eliza Fraser Revisited', Southern Review, Vol.31, and No.3:362-367 

In Press:

2010:       Review of Richard Broome, Aboriginal Australians, in History Australia, Nov.

Grants and Funding

RESEARCH GRANTS

Total Grants: A$248,300

Massacre project:
2010:  $2,500: Faculty of Education & Arts, University of Newcastle
2008:  $2,850: Faculty of Education & Arts, University of Newcastle 
2007:  $1,500:  Faculty of Education &Arts, University of Newcastle

2004: History of the Demography of the Tasmanian Aborigines
$5000   University of Newcastle Research Infrastructure Block Grant

1999:  Shopping Mall Project
$5,000   Research Infrastructure Grant, University of Newcastle

Edna Ryan Biography Project
1997       $       600   Flinders University Research Branch
1998       $   5, 000   Transworld Publishers
1999       $ 15, 000    New Staff Grant, University of Newcastle
2004       $   6,000     University of Newcastle Research Grant
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Total      $ 26,600     

The Australian Women's Weekly Project
1994       $20,000    Australian Research Council
1995       $30,000    Australian Consolidated Press
1996       $10,000    Flinders University Research Branch
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Total      $60,000   

The Abortion Project       
1989.      $23,000     Section 16 Grants, South Australian Health Commission
1990.      $15,000     Australian Research Council
1991-2  $115,000     Research and Development Grants, Commonwealth Department of
                                  Human Services and Health, Canberra
1993       $  5,000      Flinders University Research Branch
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Total   $158,000

Research Supervision

Supervision of completed postgraduates

University of Newcastle

2008:   Jill Bough, 'The Donkey in Australia'.   PhD, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
2007:   Lynn Brunet, 'Trauma, Childhood Sexual Abuse and Artistic Practice'. PhD, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
2006:   Ibtihal Samarayi, 'Experiences of Iraqi Asylum Seeker Artists in Detention Centres in Australia'. PhD, School of Humanities & Social Sciences  
2005:   Gail Hennessy, 'My Mother as Aboriginal Biography', School of Humanities                  
2004:   Wendy Paterson, 'Desire for Social Justice: Equal Pay, the International Labour Organization and Australian Government Policy, 1919-1974'. PhD School of Humanities
2004:   Wendy Hanlen, 'Let's Talk Gaayingal Business - Literacy the Koori/Murray Way'. School of Humanities

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Other

Appointments

1998-2005: Foundation Professor of Australian Studies, Faculty of Education &  Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia
1986-1998: Reader/ Professor of Women's Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia
1977-1986: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Australian Studies, School of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland

 

Governance

2004- :  Research Grant Assessor, Australian Research Council, Canberra
2000-2002:  Chair, Central Coast Professional Education Consultancy Committee 
1994-1998:  Member, Steering Group, A Social History of Women's Health in South Australia.  South Australian Health Commission, Adelaide
1992-1997: Member, Expert Panel on Services for Termination of Pregnancy, National Health and Medical Research Council, Canberra
1987-1988: Chairperson, Social Justice Advisory Committee, South Australia, Adelaide
1984-1990: Part-time member, Council of the National Museum of Australia, Canberra
1984-1986: Chairperson, Australian Government: Queensland Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation, Brisbane
1975-:  Member, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra

Community Involvement

1998 - : Member, Women's Electoral Lobby, New South Wales
1995-1998:  Member of the South Australian Committee, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, Adelaide
1992-2000:  Member, Evatt Foundation, Sydney
1990-:  Member, National Foundation for Australian Women, Canberra
1988-1998: Spokesperson, Steering Group, Coalition for Women's Right to Choose, Adelaide
1982-1984: President, Griffith University Faculty Staff Association, Brisbane
1973-1974: Founding Member, Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre, Sydney
1967-1968: Elected Member, A.C.T. Advisory Council, Canberra

Visiting Fellowships and Awards

2007: Oct-Nov:  Visiting Fellow, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University
2005-2007: Honorary Research Professor, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania
2003: Sept-Nov: Visiting Fellow, Writing Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
2003: May-July:  Sabbatical Fellow, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra
1999: D. Univ. (University of South Australia)
1995: Feb-June: Visiting Fellow, Department of History, University of Tasmania
1991: Oct-Nov: Canadian Government Enrichment Award - Canadian Studies/ Women's Studies Program, University of Alberta
1991: Aug-Sept: Visiting Fellow, History Department, University of Melbourne
1982: Feb-May: Visiting Fellow, School of History, Politics and Sociology, Macquarie University

Editorial Work

1991-1994: General Editor, Studies in Australian History, University of Queensland Press, 1991-1994 (13 titles published)

Media Presentations

2009: 'Trukanini in Victoria', Hindsight, ABC Radio National, February 8 
2008: 'Tasmania'. The First Australians, SBS TV, October 14
2007: 'Women in the Public Service and the Private Sector'. Life Matters, ABC Radio National, March 8
2003: 'History Wars', Sunday Program, Channel 9 TV, Sydney, May 17.
2003: 'Aboriginal History Wars', Late Night Lineup, BBC Radio, London, February 17. 
2001: 'Parents and adult daughters: Edna and Lyndall Ryan'. Life Matters, ABCRadio National, October 10
2001: 'Women and labour in the 20th Century', Federation Stories. ABC Radio National, April 1
1996: 'The Tasmanian Aborigines in the late 20th Century', Away, ABC Radio National, June 22.
1995: 'The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair', Background Briefing, ABC Radio National, September 16
1995: 'Fate of a Free People', Lateline, ABC TV, April 12
1991: Black Man's Houses. Documentary Film, directed by Steve Thomas, Open Channel, Melbourne
1990: 'Aboriginal Bones and Museums.'  Talking History, ABC Radio National, December 29
1982: 'Whose Bones?' Lateline, ABC Radio National, November 22
1978: 'The Last Tasmanian', Monday Conference, ABC TV, September 4

 

Consultancies

2008: Documentary, The First Australians.  Directors: Rachel Perkins and Darren Dale, SBSTV, Sydney  6 October - 2 November
2002:  Indigenous Advisory Committee for Tasmanian Electoral Roll, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, Tasmania
1995:   Documentary Six Part Series, Frontier, ABC TV, Director, Bruce Belsham
1991:   Documentary Film:  Black Man's Houses. Director, Steve Thomas, Open Channel, Melbourne
1986:  'Aboriginal Land in Tasmania'. Report to the Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Canberra 
1974:   'Report on the present position of the Skeleton of Truganini', Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra

Editorial Boards of Academic Journals

2002-:  Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
2000 -: Journal of Australian Studies
1999-2002: Tasmanian Historical Studies 
1999-:  Labour History 
1997-:  Hecate
1985-:  Australian Feminist Studies,
1997 -: Corresponding member, Aboriginal History 
1972-1975:  Refractory Girl
1971-973:  Mejane

Professional Associations

1988-: Australian Women's Studies Association, Interim Convenor: May 1988-December 1991: Secretary: October 1992-1998
1986-: Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand
1985-: International Association of Australian Studies, Executive Member, 2000-2005
1979-: Australian Historical Association