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Professor Victoria Haskins

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School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (History)

Historian as Memory Custodian: Caring about the Past

The chance discovery of a personal family link to the history of the Stolen Generations led Professor Victoria Haskins to unearth and share compelling stories of cross-cultural interpersonal relationships in modern colonial histories around the world. A social and cultural historian, she elucidates the complex interplay of gender, race and labour relations in the home, to show how the contributions of forgotten people of the past are central to the shaping of our present.

Professor Victoria Haskins sitting at a desk.

Colonialism and Domesticity

Today, Victoria leads a major research project on the transcolonial history of Indian, Chinese, and other Asian nursemaids – known as ayahs and amahs – who travelled with white and elite Asian families around the networks of the British Empire, from the late 1700s to the 1940s. With her colleagues, Claire Lowrie of the University of Wollongong and Swapna Banerjee, City University of New York (CUNY), she has produced a unique online digital history exhibition Transcolonial Journeys. In February 2023, Victoria takes up a fellowship with the CUNY Graduate Center to continue her research on the global circulation of cultural representations of the ayah.

Victoria’s fascination with colonial domestic service histories began with the discovery of a photograph of her grandmother, as a child, with an Aboriginal nursemaid. The story that emerged, of her great-grandmother Joan Kingsley-Strack’s outspoken advocacy for the rights of Aboriginal domestic workers and the end of child removal in the 1930s, became the topic of Victoria’s acclaimed debut book, One Bright Spot. It also led to her desire for a deeper understanding of the meaning and significance of carework and domesticity in settler colonial and imperial histories.

In 2005, on a visiting fellowship to Harvard University, Victoria found archival evidence of the existence of a largely forgotten scheme in the United States known as Outing, that involved placing Native American girls with white families to work as maids during the early twentieth century. This became the foundation of a transnational study of state intervention and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and the US. In 2012 Victoria’s monograph on the Outing scheme, Matrons and Maids, marked the first book-length study to comprehensively explore this facet of American race relations.

Together with Claire Lowrie, Victoria published an interdisciplinary edited collection on Colonization and Domestic Service in 2012, that charted a new direction in this area of scholarship. Their collaboration continued with a project, led by Julia Martinez and including Frances Steel, on male domestic workers (known as “houseboys”) in the Asia-Pacific, that culminated in a 2018 co-authored monograph and inspired her current research project.

Fresh Insight

Victoria argues that labours of love and care in the home – sometimes called ‘reproductive labour’ – were essential not only to colonial economies but also to the social and cultural structures of colonization. Because of the significance of this work and its potential to both gird and subvert colonial regimes, patterns of regulation and cultural fixation emerge in colonial histories that leave powerful but complicated legacies in our present.

The rich human stories embedded in these histories drive Victoria’s passion for this research. As a founding co-director, with John Maynard, of the Purai Global Indigenous History Centre, Victoria always situates her approach to sharing these often marginalised histories within a broader framework of respect, collaboration, and reciprocity. “Part of my role as a historian is to be a memory custodian,” Victoria says. “Understanding and honouring the full range of experiences in our past is essential to building a positive future.”

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Historian as Memory Custodian: Caring about the Past

Professor Victoria Haskins' study of Indigenous domestic service policies across two countries is filling a gap in the historical narrative.

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Career Summary

Biography

Victoria Haskins FAHA is a Professor of History in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries, and Social Sciences. She is a member and former founding director of Purai Global Indigenous History Centre. As a historian of Indigenous and women's cross-cultural histories, her key research interests are in gender, domestic labour, and colonialism. She has held a number of awards and fellowships, including an ARC Future Fellowship (2009-13), the NSW Centenary of Anzac Commemoration History Fellowship (2014-18), the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Fellowship (2017), and a Distinguished Scholar fellowship at the Graduate Center, CUNY (2023). She served a member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2020-22) and is a member of the Council for the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2023-25).

Research Expertise
As a cultural and social historian, my main field of research interest is the history of colonialism and domestic labour, which grew out of my broader interest in cross-cultural relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in settler colonial histories. Methodologically, I am interested in personal narratives, visual and material culture, and the complex nature of the historical archive. I am currently working on an ARC Discovery project based at the University of Newcastle, "Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Asia and Britain 1780-1945" DP200100375.

Teaching Expertise
My teaching expertise is in Australian social, cultural and political history, with a particular focus on Indigenous cross-cultural histories and women's histories. With background professional experience as a history curator, I have also taught and supervised students in museum studies. 

Administrative Expertise
I have held various senior leadership roles since 2013, including serving as the President of the University's Academic Senate between 2020-2022.

Collaborations
My international research collaborations include working with scholars based in the UK, the US, and Asia on a variety of projects and initiatives. I am committed to the principles of collaborative research and teaching both within and between institutions of higher education and cultural resources. I am also deeply committed to collaborative research with Indigenous historians and community members.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Sydney
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney

Keywords

  • Aboriginal history
  • Australian history
  • Colonialism
  • Cross-cultural history
  • Dance history
  • Domestic labour
  • Domestic service
  • Gender history
  • Indigenous history (US, Asia)
  • Museum studies
  • Women's history

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
450107 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history 30
430313 History of empires, imperialism and colonialism 30
430309 Gender history 40

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Professor University of Newcastle
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
29/5/2023 - 26/6/2023 Visiting Scholar Trinity College, Cambridge
United Kingdom
6/2/2023 - 6/7/2023 Visiting Research Scholar City University of New York
United States
2/10/2017 - 3/11/2017 Visiting Research Fellow Birkbeck College, University of London
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
United Kingdom
1/1/2016 - 1/1/2030 Professor The University of Newcastle
School of Humanities and Social Science
Australia
1/1/2014 - 31/12/2016 Deputy Head of School, Teaching & Learning The University of Newcastle
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education and Arts
Australia
1/6/2010 - 1/2/2014 Associate Professor University of Newcastle
Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing
Australia
1/9/2009 - 1/11/2009 Visiting Fellow Monash University
Australia
1/3/2009 - 1/6/2010 Senior Lecturer University of Newcastle
Humanities & Social Science, FEDUA
Australia
1/1/2009 - 1/12/2013 Fellow ARC

ARC - Discovery - Future Fellowships

 University of Newcastle
Australia
1/1/2009 -  Membership - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)
Australia
1/4/2006 - 1/3/2009 Lecturer University of Newcastle
Humanities & Social Science, FEDUA
Australia
1/1/2006 -  Editorial Board - Australian Feminist Studies Australian Feminist Studies Journal
Australia
1/6/2005 - 1/9/2005 Visiting Scholar Harvard University
United States
1/1/2000 - 1/4/2006 Lecturer in Australian History Flinders University
History
Australia
1/3/1998 - 1/12/1999 Curator

Program Developer

(Curator)

 National Museum of Australia
Department of Australian Social History
Australia

Awards

Recipient

Year Award
2006 Unions NSW & ASSLH Best Article in Labour History 2005/06
Unions NSW, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) (joint)
2002 Mary Bennett Prize for Best Article on Women's History
Australian Women’s History Network

Recognition

Year Award
2011 ARC IntReader
Australian Research Council
1990 University Medal
University of Sydney

Research Award

Year Award
2020 ARC Discovery
ARC (Australian Research Council)
2019 ARC LIEF
Centre for 21st Century Humanities, University of Newcastle
2017 ARC LIEF
ARC (Australian Research Council)
2017 Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Fellowship
Birkbeck College, University of London
2015 ARC Discovery
ARC (Australian Research Council)
2015 ARC Discovery
ARC (Australian Research Council)
2013 NSW Centenary of Anzac Commemoration History Fellowship
Arts NSW
2011 ARC Discovery
Australian Research Council
2009 ARC Future Fellowship
Australian Research Council
2006 ARC Discovery
Australian Research Council
2006 Council of State Libraries Fellowship
State Library of NSW - Mitchell Library

Invitations

Keynote Speaker

Year Title / Rationale
2003 No Place for a Lady? Reflections on the curious absence of women from the History Wars
Organisation: The Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University Description: Keynote address for RHD Conference: Contact Zone, Griffith University, Brisbane
2002 Shared Histories, Shared Futures? Representing Interracial Histories in the Museum
Organisation: Museums Australia Description: Keynote Opening Address, Museums Australia 2002 National Conference, Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide: the major professional museums organisation in Australia, shared address with prominent Indigenous spokesperson Lowitja O'Donoghue

Participant

Year Title / Rationale
2006 Book Launch, Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches
Organisation: RMIT/History Dept, University of Melbourne Description: Book Launch, Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches eds. Penelope Edmonds & Samuel Furphy, Melbourne: RMIT/History Dept, University of Melbourne, 2006
2006 Invited Opening Plenary Chair, Historicizing Whiteness Conference
Organisation: University of Melbourne Description: Invited Opening Plenary Chair, (Lillian Holt History, Honesty, Whiteness and Blackness and Marilyn Lake, The Discovery of Personal Whiteness is a Very Modern Thing: WEB DuBois on the Global and the Personal) Historicizing Whiteness Conference, The University of Melbourne, 22-24 November 2006
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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (7 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 Martínez J, Lowrie C, Steel F, Haskins V, Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 280 (2019) [A1]
Citations Scopus - 4
2016 Maynard JM, Haskins VK, Living with the Locals - Early Europeans' Experience of Indigenous Life, National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, 241 (2016) [A1]
Co-authors John Maynard
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, 365 (2015) [A3]
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York, 365 (2015) [A3]
2012 Haskins VK, Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914-1934, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 231 (2012) [A1]
Citations Scopus - 16
2005 Cole A, Haskins V, Paisley F, Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT (2005) [A3]
2005 Haskins VK, One bright spot (2005) [A1]

For every Aboriginal child taken away by the state governments in Australia, there was at least one white family intimately involved in their life. One Bright Spot is about one of... [more]

For every Aboriginal child taken away by the state governments in Australia, there was at least one white family intimately involved in their life. One Bright Spot is about one of these families - about 'Ming', a Sydney wife and mother who hired Aboriginal domestic servants in the 20s and 30s, and became an activist against the Stolen Generations policy. Her story, reconstructed by her great-granddaughter, tells of a remarkable, yet forgotten, shared history.

DOI 10.1057/9780230510593
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Chapter (39 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2019 'Creating the Houseboy: Early Asian Influences on European Cultures of Domestic Service', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-001
2019 'Indigenous Houseboys and Asian Ideals in Darwin and Suva', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-002
2019 'Intercultural Influences on American Domesticity in the Philippines', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-003
2019 'From India to Fiji: Cultures of Service in the Grand Hotel', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-006
2019 'Labour and Political Activism by Chinese and Vietnamese Male Domestic Workers', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-007
2019 'Colonial Patriarchy and Representations of Masculinity in Photographs of Domestic Workers', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-004
2019 Martinez J, Lowrie C, Steel F, Haskins V, 'Steamship Stewards: Encountering Asia on the High Seas', Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific, Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK 137-168 (2019) [B1]
DOI 10.5040/9781350056756.ch-005
2019 Maynard J, Haskins V, ''For the Record': A History of the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board', Contesting Australian History - Essays In Honour of Marilyn Lake, Monsh University Publishing, Melbourne 121-135 (2019) [B1]
Co-authors John Maynard
2018 Haskins VK, 'Women s Work and Cross-Cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836 1849', Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies 139-158 (2018)

This chapter compares the experiences of Barbara Thompson and Eliza Fraser, two white women who lived with Indigenous people on the other side of the frontier in colonial Queensla... [more]

This chapter compares the experiences of Barbara Thompson and Eliza Fraser, two white women who lived with Indigenous people on the other side of the frontier in colonial Queensland, to foreground their relationships with Indigenous women. It considers how they negotiated Indigenous women¿s worlds, and how Indigenous women negotiated their intrusion. It treats their meeting and adoption into Indigenous women¿s networks, speculates on the ways Indigenous women positioned the intruders, and details intimate relationships between white and Indigenous women. Through work, Thompson became a part of the Kaurareg community; through refusal to work, Fraser remained alienated from the Butchulla. This understanding provides a basis for a revised historical and reconciliation practice that both recognises Indigenous women¿s work and seeks to reciprocate.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9_7
2018 Haskins VK, ' Women s Work and Cross-cultural Relationships on Two Female Frontiers: Eliza Fraser and Barbara Thompson in Colonial Queensland, 1836-1849. In Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony: Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim.', Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony Economies of Dispossession around the Pacific Rim, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge 139-158 (2018) [B1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9
2017 Haskins VK, 'Australian nurses and the 1918 Deolali Inquiry: Transcolonial racial and gendered anxieties in a British Indian war hospital', Australians and the First World War, Palgrave Mcmillan, Cham 67-83 (2017)
2017 Haskins VK, 'Australian Nurses and the 1918 Deolali Inquiry: Transcolonial Racial and Gendered Anxieties in a British Indian War Hospital', Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts, Springer Link, Crew 67-83 (2017) [B1]
2017 Haskins VK, 'Decolonizing the archives: a transnational perspective', Sources and methods in histories of colonialism: Approaching the imperial archive, Routledge, Abingdon, UK 45-66 (2017) [B1]
2017 Haskins V, 'Decolonizing the archives: A transnational perspective', Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism: Approaching the Imperial Archive 47-68 (2017)
Citations Scopus - 2
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, 'Domination and Resistance', Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York 149-151 (2015)
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, 'Legacies and Dreams', Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York 235-238 (2015)
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, 'Anxieties and intimacies', Colonization and domestic service: Historical and contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York 41-43 (2015) [O1]
2015 Haskins VK, Lowrie C, 'Conclusion: Agency, Representation, and Subalternity: some Concluding Thoughts', Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York 348-350 (2015) [B2]
2015 Haskins VK, Lowie C, 'Introduction: Decolonizing Domestic Service: Introducing a New Agenda', Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge, New York 1-18 (2015) [B1]
2015 Haskins VK, '"The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material": Native American Domestic Workers' Wages Under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s-1930s', Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers, Brill, Leiden & Boston 323-345 (2015) [B1]
DOI 10.1163/9789004280144_016
Citations Scopus - 1
2014 Haskins VK, 'Beth Dean and the Transnational Circulation of Aboriginal Dance Culture: Gender, Authority and C. P. Mountford', Circulating Cultures: Exchanges of Australian Indigenous Music, Dance and Media, ANU Press, Canberra 19-44 (2014) [B1]
2013 Haskins VK, ''Plenty European ladies told me you should give me fair place same as everybody': Gender, race and Aboriginal domestic service', Women's Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon 153-167 (2013) [B1]
Citations Scopus - 1
2009 Haskins VK, 'Her old Ayah: The transcolonial significance of the Indian domestic worker in India and Australia', Responding to the West: Essays on Colonial Domination and Asian Agency, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands 103-115 (2009) [B1]
2008 Haskins VK, 'The smoking buggy', Off the Beaten Track: A Journey Across the Nation, National Motor Museum, Birdwood, SA 72-89 (2008) [B2]
2007 Haskins VK, 'Dancing in the Dust: A Gendered History of Indigenising Australian Cultural Identity', Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies, Prestige Books, Sydney, New South Wales 55-75 (2007) [B1]
2005 Haskins V, 'A Devotion I Hope I May Fully Repay: Joan Kingsley-Strack', Uncommon Ground: White women in Aboriginal history, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia 57-79 (2005) [B1]
2005 Haskins VK, 'You must not go against these people', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 116-127 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_10
2005 Haskins VK, 'It makes me rage', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 144-152 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_13
2005 Haskins VK, 'Just ordinary justice', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 167-178 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_15
2005 Haskins VK, 'She learnt her lessons well', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 243-246 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_21
2005 Haskins VK, 'If I am coming back to you all again', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 41-52 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_4
2005 Haskins VK, 'She loves pretty things and knows how to wear them', One Bright Spot, Palgrave Macmillan UK 105-115 (2005)
DOI 10.1057/9780230510593_9
2004 Haskins V, 'Fear the Bitch who Sheds No Tears: The Persistence of the Female Scapegoat in Cultural Representations of Frontier Violence and Stolen Generations', The Regenerative Spirit Volume 2: (Un)settling,(Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)Presentations Australian Post-Colonial Reflections, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, South Australia 150-159 (2004) [B1]
2002 Haskins V, 'Aboriginal Histories', The Wakefield Companion to South Australia, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, South Australia 28-30 (2002) [B1]
2002 Haskins V, Jacobs MD, 'Stolen Generations and Vanishing Indians: The Removal of Indigenous Children as a Weapon of War in the United States and Australia, 1870-1940', Children and War: An Anthology, New York University Presss, New York, New York 227-241 (2002) [B1]
2000 Haskins VK, 'The apprenticing of Aboriginal girls to domestic service in NSW: eugenic preoccupations and the feminist response', A Race for Place Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia, University of Newcastle, Newcastle 189-194 (2000)
1999 Haskins VK, 'The women's movement and Aboriginal citizenship, Sydney, 1937-1940', , UNIV MELBOURNE 43-51 (1999)
1998 Haskins VK, 'Servants in Suburban Sydney: the NSW Aborigines Protection Board and the policy of sending Aboriginal girls to Sydney, 1883 to 1940', Urban Life, Urban Culture Aboriginal/Indigenous Experiences, University of Western Sydney, Sydney 166-179 (1998)
1994 Clark VL, Bavoil PM, 'Preface', 15 (1994) [B2]
DOI 10.1016/0076-6879(94)35125-2
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Journal article (60 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Haskins VK, 'Exemption: A Gendered History', Australian Journal of Politics & History, 69 140-155 (2023) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/ajph.12868
2022 Haskins V, Sen S, 'Introduction: Regulation and Domestic Service in Colonial Histories', INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY, (2022)
DOI 10.1017/S0020859022000074
Citations Scopus - 1
2022 Haskins V, 'Sickness and Slavery: Reflecting upon Aboriginal Domestic Workers and Disease in Australian History', Labour History, 123 15-30 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.3828/labourhistory.2022.17
2022 Haskins V, 'Mrs Browne and the Bengalis: An Early Transcolonial Story of Domestic Service, 1816-1821.', Asian Studies Conference Series: The Twelfth International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS 12), 1 216-224 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.5117/9789048557820/ICAS.2022.026
2022 Haskins V, 'Testimonies of affect: Native American women s histories of violence on California s Pacific North Coast', Women's History Review, 31 953-974 (2022) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/09612025.2022.2090710
2021 Travis KAP, Haskins V, 'Feminist Research Ethics and First Nations Women s Life Narratives: A Conversation', Australian Feminist Studies, 36 126-141 (2021) [C1]

This essay offers a reflection on conducting historical research relating to First Nations women¿s lives and cross-cultural relationships in ways that are ethical and informed by ... [more]

This essay offers a reflection on conducting historical research relating to First Nations women¿s lives and cross-cultural relationships in ways that are ethical and informed by feminist sensibilities. In dialogic mode, the authors work through issues and insights that have arisen in the process of researching the life story of Arrernte woman Minnie Undelya Apma, who was abducted as a child from her parents in Central Australia in 1920 by anthropologist Herbert Basedow and his wife Olive (Nell). The process of collaborative research between Kath and Victoria ignited a relationship of mutual understanding and empathy that yielded further enquiries. Fundamentally the process created a space for us to talk and think about the many ways we approach and understand the remarkable history of Minnie Apma¿s life, that includes how that story is told and by whom. We argue that there are meaningful ways for First Nations and Second Peoples researchers of First Nations¿ women¿s life narratives to work together, that will not only improve historical scholarship, but also help to build respectful relationships that counteract inequality and ongoing disempowerment of First Nations people in our society.

DOI 10.1080/08164649.2021.2004537
Citations Scopus - 2
2019 Haskins V, 'Domesticating Colonizers: Domesticity, Indigenous Domestic Labor, and the Modern Settler Colonial Nation', The American Historical Review, 124 1290-1301 (2019) [C1]
DOI 10.1093/ahr/rhz647
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 6
2018 Rowse T, 'The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors', Australian Historical Studies, 49 268-269 (2018)
DOI 10.1080/1031461x.2018.1454282
2017 Maynard JM, Haskins VK, 'Living with the Locals', Australian Geographic, September-October 64-71 (2017)
Co-authors John Maynard
2017 Haskins VK, '"A Troublesome Gin Like Annie": Masculinity, Race and Intimate Violence in Federation-Era North Queensland', law&history, 4 125-150 (2017) [C1]
2017 Haskins V, 'The girl who wanted to go to war: female patriotism and gender construction in Australia s Great War', History Australia, 14 169-186 (2017) [C1]

On the very first Anzac Day commemoration, a young coal miner¿s daughter from Kurri Kurri in regional NSW was arrested and charged for illegally wearing the Australian Imperial Fo... [more]

On the very first Anzac Day commemoration, a young coal miner¿s daughter from Kurri Kurri in regional NSW was arrested and charged for illegally wearing the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) uniform. This was the third time that Maud Butler had impersonated a soldier: on the first two occasions, she had actually managed to get aboard a troopship before being discovered by the authorities. Butler¿s ¿nonsensical escapades¿ (as one reporter termed them) offer an insight into the unstable constructions of gender difference and female patriotism during wartime. This article considers the controversies that surrounded her thwarted attempts to ¿pass¿ as a male soldier, in the wider context of patriotism, masculinity and militarism during the First World War. Dissent of anti-war women in Australia in this period challenged masculine control of public space, but it is clear that the activities of pro-war women could do the same. As the authorities¿ bemused interventions and the discussions that ensued highlighted, such female enthusiasm for the war effort that Butler displayed threatened existing gender norms and social order. Reframing Butler¿s actions to shame reluctant men into enlisting could only imperfectly resolve the challenge her transgressions posed to Australian society, at a time of profound social change and upheaval.

DOI 10.1080/14490854.2017.1319737
Citations Scopus - 1
2016 Haskins VK, '"Maud Butler's Anzac Day"', The Last Post Magazine, 24-25 (2016)
2015 Haskins VK, '"It's a trap! It's a trap!"', Women and Research Newsletter, 2-3 (2015)
2015 Haskins VK, 'The White Woman s Burden: Encounters between White and Indigenous Women in Australian Domestic Service.', Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues: Special Issue Maps, Dreams, History Revisited: Power & Pastmindedness in (Post)Colonial Australia, 18 38-53 (2015) [C1]
2015 Haskins VK, 'Stories of broken dreams', The Herald newspaper (Newcastle, NSW), 21-21 (2015) [O1]
2015 Haskins VK, Scrimgeour A, ' Strike Strike, We Strike : Making Aboriginal Domestic Labor Visible in the Pilbara Pastoral Workers Strike, Western Australia, 1946-1952. ', International Labor and Working-Class History, Fall 87-108 (2015) [C1]
DOI 10.1017/S0147547915000228
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 6
2013 Haskins VK, 'Domestic Geographies: The Place of the Outing Matron in Early Twentieth Century Tucson', Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS), 32 1-26 (2013) [C1]
2013 Haskins VK, '"Down in the gully & just outside the garden walk": White women and the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women on a colonial Australian frontier', History Australia, 10 11-34 (2013) [C1]
Citations Scopus - 5
2012 Haskins VK, ' The beautiful boys Aboriginal houseboys in Darwin.', Stories from the Archives, Northern Territory Archives Service, Northern Territory Government Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sport website, http://www.nretas.nt.gov.au/knowledge-and-history/ntas/stories/aboriginal-houseboys-in-darwin, np-np (2012)
2012 Haskins VK, 'The chaplain's wife and the native girl: re-envisaging a cross-cultural female relationship in the contact zone', Australian Feminist Studies, 27 259-268 (2012) [C1]
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 2
2012 Haskins VK, 'A sense of absence, restored', History Australia, 9 247-249 (2012) [C3]
2011 Haskins V, 'The Protectors: a Journey through Whitefella Past', TRANSNATIONAL LITERATURE, 4 (2011)
2011 Haskins VK, ''The privilege of employing natives': the Quan Sing affair and Chinese-Aboriginal employment in Western Australia, 1889-1934', Aboriginal History, 35 145-160 (2011) [C1]
2011 Haskins VK, 'To touch the infinity of a far horizon: A transnational history of transcultural appropriation in Beth Dean's Corroboree (1954)', Australasian Drama Studies, 59 23-38 (2011) [C1]
Citations Scopus - 4
2011 Haskins V, 'Aboriginal family and the state: The conditions of history', ANTHROPOLOGICAL FORUM, 21 200-203 (2011)
2010 Haskins VK, Schedlich-Day S, 'My mate Ellen: Cross-cultural friendship between women in a 'pioneer memoir'', La Trobe Journal, 85 70-192 (2010) [C1]
2009 Haskins VK, 'A significant step', The Herald newspaper (Newcastle, NSW), 9-9 (2009)
2009 Haskins VK, 'From the centre to the city: Modernity, mobility and mixed-descent Aboriginal domestic workers from central Australia', Womens History Review, 18 155-175 (2009) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/09612020802608108
Citations Scopus - 7Web of Science - 12
2008 Haskins VK, ''Give to us the people we would love to be amongst us': The Aboriginal campaign against Caroline Bulmer's eviction from Lake Tyers Aboriginal Station, 1913-14', Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria, 1-12 (2008) [C1]
2008 Haskins VK, 'Memsahib and missus: Transcolonial constructions of the white mistress in India and Australia', Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, 39/40 221-235 (2008) [C1]
2007 Haskins VKVK, Jacobs MD, 'Introduction', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 28 (2007)
DOI 10.1353/fro.2007.0026
2007 Haskins V, Jacobs MD, 'Frontiers: Introduction', Frontiers, 28 (2007)
Citations Scopus - 2
2007 Haskins V, 'Domestic service and frontier feminism: The call for a woman visitor to "half-caste" girls and women in domestic service, Adelaide, 1925-1928', Frontiers, 28 124-164 (2007)
Citations Scopus - 12
2007 Haskins VK, 'One bright spot', PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 76 501-502 (2007)
2007 Haskins V, Jacobs MD, 'Special issue: Domestic frontiers: The home and colonization - Introduction', FRONTIERS-A JOURNAL OF WOMEN STUDIES, 28 IX-XVI (2007)
Citations Web of Science - 3
2007 Haskins VK, 'Domestic service and frontier feminism - The call for a woman visitor to 'half-caste' girls and women in domestic service, Adelaide, 1925-1928', Frontiers - A Journal of Women Studies, 28 124-164 (2007) [C1]
DOI 10.1353/fro.2007.0027
Citations Web of Science - 9
2007 Haskins VK, Jacobs M, 'Introduction', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 28 ix-xvi (2007) [C3]
2007 Haskins VK, Jacobs M, 'Editor - Special Issue', Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 28 (2007) [C2]
2006 Haskins VK, 'Isabel Flick: The many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman', Australian Historical Studies, 37 144-145 (2006) [C3]
DOI 10.1080/10314610608601224
2006 Haskins VK, 'Beyond Complicity: questions and issues for white women in Aboriginal history', Australian Humanities Review, 39-40 (2006) [C1]
2006 Haskins V, 'Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle by Roslyn Poignant', API Review of Books, 44 - (2006) [C3]
2005 Haskins V, ''& so we are "Slave owners"!': Employers and the NSW Aborigines Protection Board Trust Funds', Labour History, 88 147-164 (2005)

The issue of the 'Stolen Wages' - earnings withheld from Aboriginal workers throughout the twentieth century - has made prominent headlines in the last few years. The qu... [more]

The issue of the 'Stolen Wages' - earnings withheld from Aboriginal workers throughout the twentieth century - has made prominent headlines in the last few years. The questions surrounding these disappearing monies will undoubtedly continue to be vexed, given the history of state control over Aboriginal labour, and the concomitant practice of governments withholding the wages of Aboriginal workers in trust funds. The following discussion of the trust fund system as it operated in New South Wales under the Aborigines Protection Board's regime (1883-1940), is intended to illuminate the context and the complexities of the issue and its significance for racial interrelations then, and indeed now. By interrogating the role of white employers in particular, this article makes a contribution to a deeper comprehension of the white experience and involvement in this history of wage withholding, an understanding critical in achieving the support of non-Aboriginal Australians in the Aboriginal workers' cause today.

DOI 10.3828/27516042
Citations Scopus - 11
2005 Haskins V, '& so we are "Slave owners"!'': Employers and the NSW Aborigines Protection Board Trust Funds', Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 88 147-164 (2005) [C1]
2005 Haskins V, Maynard J, 'Sex, race and power - Aboriginal men and white women in Australian history', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 36 191-216 (2005) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/10314610508682920
Citations Web of Science - 21
2004 Haskins V, 'A better chance? sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board', Aboriginal History, 28 33-58 (2004) [C1]
2004 Haskins V, 'Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 35 182-183 (2004)
2004 Haskins V, 'Mixed matches: Interracial marriage in Australia.', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 36 408-410 (2004)
2003 Haskins V, ''Could you see to the return of my daughter': Fathers and daughters under the New South Wales Aborigines protection board child removal policy', Australian Historical Studies, 34 106-121 (2003) [C1]

In 1939 an Aboriginal father approached the secretary of a Sydney-based organization agitating for Aboriginal citizenship rights, to seek her assistance in locating his daughter w... [more]

In 1939 an Aboriginal father approached the secretary of a Sydney-based organization agitating for Aboriginal citizenship rights, to seek her assistance in locating his daughter who had been taken from his care by the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board. He was not alone, but one of a number of concerned parents who sought the return of their daughters through the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship. The fact that Aboriginal fathers were involved in this campaign challenges the stereotype of the 'fatherless' mixed-race child that underpinned the state's presumption of a patriarchal authority over Aboriginal girls and unmarried womena stereotype that endures. The following article exposes the maladministration of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board and highlights the assumptions about race and gender that are embedded in the history of the Stolen Generations.

DOI 10.1080/10314610308596239
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 6
2003 Haskins V, 'Civilising subjects: Metropole and colony in the English imagination', AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES, 18 217-218 (2003)
DOI 10.1080/0816464032000102292
2003 Haskins V, 'Faith: Faith Bandler, gentle activist.', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 34 406-408 (2003)
2003 Haskins V, 'Fear the bitch who sheds no tears: The cultural depiction of the white female scapegoat in Australian historical drama', Lilith: a feminist history journal, 12 50-64 (2003) [C1]
2002 Haskins V, 'Merriwinga, "Place of Dreaming": History and the Stories of Place', Locality: Journal of the ACPH, 2002 123-456 (2002) [C2]
2002 Haskins V, 'Turning magpies into canaries: the stories behind the Jedda portraits of the 1950s', The World of Antiques and Art, Dec 2001-June 2002 98-101 (2002) [C3]
2002 Haskins V, 'Shared Histories, Shared Futures? (2002) [C3]
2001 Haskins V, 'On the Doorstep: Aboriginal Domestic Service as a 'Contact Zone'', Australian Feminist Studies, 16 (2001) [C1]
DOI 10.1080/08164640120038881
Citations Scopus - 29Web of Science - 22
2001 Haskins V, 'Loving protection? Australian feminism and Aboriginal women's rights 1919-1939', AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES, 16 248-250 (2001)
2000 Haskins VK, 'Family histories, personal narratives and race relations history in Australia', Canberra Historical Society Journal, 45 25-29 (2000)
2000 Haskins VK, 'Aboriginal Representations in the Ceramics of Brownie Downing and the Martin Boyd Pottery', The World of Antiques and Art, 68-72 (2000)
1998 Haskins VK, '"Lovable Natives and Tribal Sisters : Feminism, Maternalism, and the Campaign for Aboriginal Citizenship in New South Wales in the Late 1930s.', Hecate: an interdisciplinary journal of women's liberation, 14 8-21 (1998)
1998 Haskins VK, 'Skeletons in Our Closet: family history, personal narratives and race relations history in Australia', The Olive Pink Society Bulletin, 10 15-22 (1998)
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Review (22 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2021 Haskins V, 'Kama Maclean on Australia and India under Empire
DOI 10.1080/14490854.2021.1880286
2021 Haskins V, 'White Women, Aboriginal Missions and Australian Settler Governments: Maternal Contradictions', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY (2021)
DOI 10.1111/1467-9809.12751
2019 Haskins V, 'Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century', JOURNAL OF THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA (2019)
DOI 10.1017/S1537781419000124
2018 Haskins V, 'The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors', ABORIGINAL HISTORY (2018)
2018 Haskins V, 'The girl who wanted to go to war: Maud Butler (2018)
2014 Haskins VK, 'The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue: Voices and Images from Sherman Institute', PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW (2014) [C3]
DOI 10.1525/phr.2014.83.1.150
2012 Haskins VK, 'Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780s-1890s, by Gregory D Smithers (New York: Routledge, 2009)', Australasian Journal of American Studies (2012) [C3]
2011 Haskins VK, 'Stephen Gray, The Protectors: a Journey through Whitefella Past (Allen & Unwin, 2011) [Book Review]', Transnational Literature (2011) [C3]
2011 Haskins VK, 'Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World 1783-1939. By James Belich [Book Review]', Western Historical Quarterly (2011) [C3]
DOI 10.2307/westhistquar.42.3.0379
2011 Haskins VK, 'Book review: Aboriginal family and the state: The conditions of history, by Sally Babidge', Anthropological Forum (2011) [C3]
DOI 10.1080/00664677.2011.582837
2007 Haskins VK, 'Review of In Living Memory, State Records Gallery', History Australia (2007) [C3]
DOI 10.2104/ha070018
2007 Haskins VK, 'Stolen generations', International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2007) [D2]
2004 Haskins V, '''Mixed Marriages: Interracial Marriage in Australia'' by June Duncan Owen [Book review]', Australian Historical Studies (2004) [D2]
2004 Haskins V, 'Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island by Rebe Taylor (Wakefield: 2002) [Book Review]', Australian Historical Studies (2004) [D2]
2003 Haskins V, 'Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867 by Catherine Hall (Polity Press: 2002) [Book Review]', Australian Feminist Studies (2003) [D2]
2003 Haskins V, 'Faith: Faith Bandler, Gentle Activist by Marilyn Lake (Allen & Unwin: 2002) [Book Review]', Australian Historical Studies (2003) [D2]
2003 Haskins V, 'Stories of Freedom in Black New York by Shane White (Harvard University Press: 2002) [Book Review]', Labour History (2003) [D2]
2003 Haskins V, 'Settlers, Servants and Slaves: Aboriginal and European Children in Nineteenth-Century Western Australia by Penelope Hetherington (UWA: 2002) [Book Review]', Lilith (2003) [D2]
2003 Haskins V, 'A Little Bird Told Me: family secrets, necessary lies, by Lynette Russell (Allen & Unwin, 2002) [Book review]', The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History (2003) [D2]
2002 Haskins V, 'Confronting Cruelty: Historical Perspectives on Child Protection in Australia, by Dorothy Scott & Shurlee Swain (MUP, 2002) [Book review]', Lilith (2002) [D2]
2001 Haskins V, 'Kangushot: The Life of Nyamal Lawman Peter Coppin by J Read & P Coppin (Aboriginal Studies Press: 1999) [Book review]', Studies in Western Australian history (2001) [D2]
2001 Haskins V, '''Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and Australian Aboriginal Women''s Rights 1919-1939 [Book review]', Australian Feminist Studies (2001) [D2]
Show 19 more reviews

Conference (4 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2020 Arthur PL, Champion E, Craig H, Gu N, Harvey M, Haskins V, et al., 'Time-layered cultural map of Australia', CEUR Workshop Proceedings (2020) [E1]

This paper reports on an Australian project that is developing an online system to deliver researcher-driven national-scale infrastructure for the humanities, focused on mapping, ... [more]

This paper reports on an Australian project that is developing an online system to deliver researcher-driven national-scale infrastructure for the humanities, focused on mapping, time series, and data integration. Australian scholars and scholars of Australia worldwide are well served with digital resources and tools to deepen the understanding of Australia and its historical and cultural heritage. There are, however, significant barriers to use. The Time Layered Cultural Map of Australia (TLCMap) will provide an umbrella infrastructure related to time and space, helping to activate and draw together existing high-quality resources. TLCMap expands the use of Australian cultural and historical data for research through sharply defined and powerful discovery mechanisms. See https://tlcmap.newcastle.edu.au/.

Citations Scopus - 1
Co-authors Mark Harvey, Bill Pascoe, Lyndall Ryan, Hugh Craig
2012 Haskins VK, 'They shew no signs of resistance: Indigenous domestic work in early colonial Australia, 1789 to 1820', Women and Gender in Colonial Contexts (19th-20th centuries), Paris, France (2012) [E3]
2011 Haskins VK, ''She might kill the baby I know': Sexuality, infanticide, and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and the USA', Histories of Sexuality, Newcastle, Australia (2011) [E3]
2007 Haskins VK, 'Memsahib to Missus: Transcolonial constructions of the female domestic service relationships in India and Australia', ICAS5: International Convention of Asia Scholars 5th Convention. Abstracts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007) [E3]
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Creative Work (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2022 Haskins V, Samuelsson L, Lowrie C, Banerjee S, Guha S, Transcolonial Journeys: Ayahs and Amahs, online, Newcastle (2022)
2022 Haskins V, Samuelsson L, Lowrie C, Banerjee S, Guha S, Transcolonial Journeys: Ayahs and Amahs, online, Newcastle (2022)

Other (3 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2018 Maynard JM, Haskins V, 'Living with the locals: Six extraordinary first contact stories of friendship and survival', . Sydney: ABC (2018)
Co-authors John Maynard
2016 Maynard JM, Haskins VH, 'Living with the Locals in 19th-century Australia', . Canberra: National Library of Australia (2016)
Co-authors John Maynard
2014 Haskins VK, 'World War I: Teenage girl Maud Butler cut hair, dressed as soldier and stowed away on troopship', ( pp.np-np) (2014) [O1]
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants 39
Total funding $3,836,018

Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.

20231 grants / $631,532

Truth Telling Research$631,532

Funding body: NSW Department of Education

Funding body NSW Department of Education
Project Team Professor Kate Senior, Professor Kate Senior, Professor Kathleen Clapham, Prof Valerie Harwood, Professor Victoria Haskins, Doctor Raymond Kelly, Doctor Jacqui Wright
Scheme RFT - Truth Telling Research
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2023
Funding Finish 2024
GNo G2300979
Type Of Funding C2300 – Aust StateTerritoryLocal – Own Purpose
Category 2300
UON Y

20221 grants / $14,000

From Ngukurr to Newcastle. Exploring the activism, impacts and legacy of Dexter Daniels$14,000

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Project Team

A/Prof Kate Senior (lead), Prof Victoria Haskins, Mr Nicholas Orr, Ms Daphne Daniels (Ngukurr community)
Scheme CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2022
Funding Finish 2022
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20204 grants / $252,485

Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain 1780-1945$200,485

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins, Dr Claire Lowrie, Professor Swapna Banerjee, Dr Claire Lowrie
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2022
GNo G1801472
Type Of Funding C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC
Category 1200
UON Y

Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Servants in Australia and Britain 1780-1945 – Faculty/College cash contribution$30,000

Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle

Funding body College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Scheme FEDUA / CHSF
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2022
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Faculty funding for external engagement in 2020 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$20,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr J McIntyre (Director); Dr K Ariotti; A/Prof G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Dr J Coffey; A/Prof N Cushing; E/Prof H Craig; Prof V Haskins et al.
Scheme Faculty funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

American Historical Association 134th Annual Meeting, USA, 3 - 6 January 2020$2,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme FEDUA Conference Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2020
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20197 grants / $583,205

Time-layered cultural map of Australia$416,963

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig, Deb Verhoeven, Paul Arthur, Andrew May, Professor Rosalind Smith, Prof Ning Gu, Erik Champion, Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Professor Victoria Haskins, Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan
Scheme Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2022
GNo G1800235
Type Of Funding Scheme excluded from IGS
Category EXCL
UON Y

Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2019 - Centre for 21st century Humanities$100,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Project Team

Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig; Prof P Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins (Director); Prof M Johnson; A/Prof B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan
Scheme Faculty Funding
Role Lead
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2020
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Time-layered cultural map of Australia$30,000

Funding body: Edith Cowan University

Funding body Edith Cowan University
Project Team Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig, Deb Verhoeven, Paul Arthur, Andrew May, Professor Rosalind Smith, Prof Ning Gu, Erik Champion, Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Professor Victoria Haskins, Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan
Scheme Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner Funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo G1901231
Type Of Funding Scheme excluded from IGS
Category EXCL
UON Y

Faculty ARC LIEF Support$20,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Professor Hugh Craig; Professor Deb Verhoeven; Professor Paul Arthur; Professor Andrew May; Professor Rosalind Smith; Professor Ning Gu; Professor Erik Champion; Associate Professor Mark Harvey; Professor Victoria Haskins; Professor Lyndall Ryan.
Scheme Faculty funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Time-layered cultural map of Australia$10,000

Funding body: University of Alberta

Funding body University of Alberta
Project Team Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig, Deb Verhoeven, Paul Arthur, Andrew May, Professor Rosalind Smith, Prof Ning Gu, Erik Champion, Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Professor Victoria Haskins, Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan
Scheme Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner Funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo G1901233
Type Of Funding Scheme excluded from IGS
Category EXCL
UON Y

2019 International Research Collaboration Scheme$6,000

International Visitor Dr Devaleena Das

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme FEDUA IRCS
Role Lead
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Time-layered Cultural Map of Australia$242

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Emeritus Professor Hugh Craig, Professor Victoria Haskins, Associate Professor Mark Harvey, Professor Rosalind Smith, Verhoeven, Deb, May, Andy, Turnbull, Paul, Walter, Maggie, Arthur, Paul, Dr Laura Kostanski
Scheme ARC LIEF Support
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2019
Funding Finish 2019
GNo G1800236
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20182 grants / $101,000

Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$100,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team

Dr G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Prof H Craig (Director); Prof P Dwyer; A/Prof J Gulddal; A/Prof M Harvey; Prof V Haskins; Prof M Johnson; Dr B Palmer; A/Prof T Pender; Prof L Ryan; Prof R Smith (Deputy Director).
Scheme Faculty funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2018
Funding Finish 2018
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Unsettling Australia: InASA Biennial Conference, Brisbane, 3 - 5 December 2018$1,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Scheme FEDUA Conference Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2018
Funding Finish 2018
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20172 grants / $19,915

The Aboriginal History Archive$10,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Gary Foley, Dr Anthony Birch, Dr Edwina Howell, Associate Professor Gavan McCarthy, Professor Nikos Papastergiadis, Emeritus Professor John Maynard, Professor Victoria Haskins, Professor Jon Alterman, Professor Larissa Behrendt, Associate Professor Melinda Hinkson, Ms Margo Neale, ms Libby Steward, Dr Andrew Schaap, Professor Linda Smith, Professor Graham Smith
Scheme Equipment Grant
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2017
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1600500
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

Blood and Ochre: Interpreting East Kimberley Aboriginal Art as Evidence of Massacre$9,915

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins, Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, Emeritus Professor John Boulton
Scheme Linkage Pilot Research Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2017
Funding Finish 2017
GNo G1701116
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20161 grants / $200,000

Faculty matching funding for UON PRC Scheme 2016/17 - Centre for 21st century Humanities$200,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team

Prof Hugh Craig; Prof Lisa Adkins; A/Prof Ros Smith; Prof Roland Boer; Prof Philip Dwyer; Dr Bill Palmer; A/Prof Mark Harvey; Prof Victoria Haskins; Prof Lyndall Ryan; Dr Trisha Pender.
Scheme Faculty funding
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2016
Funding Finish 2017
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

20152 grants / $1,152,110

The NSW Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board 1883-1969: A History$629,896

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Emeritus Professor John Maynard, Professor Victoria Haskins, Dr Lawrence Bamblett, Ms Lorina Barker, Professor Jakelin Troy, Barker, Lorina, Troy, Jakelin, Bamblett, Lawrence
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2018
GNo G1400067
Type Of Funding C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC
Category 1200
UON Y

Intimacy and Violence in Anglo Pacific Rim settler colonial societies$522,214

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Emeritus Professor Lyndall Ryan, Professor Amanda Nettelbeck, Associate Professor Anna Johnston, Associate Professor Penelope Edmonds, Professor Victoria Haskins, Dr Angela Wanhalla, Wanhalla, Angela, Nettelbeck, Amanda, Johnston, Anna, Edmonds, Penelope, Dr Angela Wanhalla
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Investigator
Funding Start 2015
Funding Finish 2023
GNo G1400095
Type Of Funding C1200 - Aust Competitive - ARC
Category 1200
UON Y

20131 grants / $20,000

NSW Centenary of Anzac Commemoration History Fellowship$20,000

Funding body: NSW Trade & Investment

Funding body NSW Trade & Investment
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme NSW Centenary of Anzac Commemoration (2014-2018) History Fellowship
Role Lead
Funding Start 2013
Funding Finish 2015
GNo G1300889
Type Of Funding Other Public Sector - State
Category 2OPS
UON Y

20113 grants / $63,429

Houseboys: A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific$46,929

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Dr Julia Martinez, Professor Victoria Haskins, Dr Claire Lowrie
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Lead
Funding Start 2011
Funding Finish 2013
GNo G1001073
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON Y

Emerging Research Leaders Program 2011$15,000

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Emerging Research Leaders Program
Role Lead
Funding Start 2011
Funding Finish 2011
GNo G1101094
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

2011 Bershire Conference on the History of Women, University of Massachusetts, Amhert, 9 - 11 June 2011$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2011
Funding Finish 2012
GNo G1100655
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20101 grants / $1,500

21st International Congress of Historical Sciences , Amsterdam, 22 - 28 August 2010$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2010
Funding Finish 2011
GNo G1000098
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20092 grants / $650,602

In Her Place: state intervention and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and United States, 1880-1945$649,102

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Future Fellowships
Role Lead
Funding Start 2009
Funding Finish 2013
GNo G0189703
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON Y

Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Conference 2009, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 6-8 August 2009.$1,500

Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts

Funding body University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2009
Funding Finish 2009
GNo G0190447
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20082 grants / $7,779

2007 Research Development Fellowship$6,079

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Research Development Fellowship
Role Lead
Funding Start 2008
Funding Finish 2008
GNo G0188229
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

19th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, West Bank Campus, Twin Cities, 12/6/2008 - 15/6/2008$1,700

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2008
Funding Finish 2008
GNo G0188228
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20072 grants / $10,886

Out on the domestic frontier: An historical study of American Indian domestic service under the US federal outing system$9,489

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Pilot Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2007
Funding Finish 2007
GNo G0186677
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

ICAS5 (International Convention of Asia Scholars, Fitth Convention), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2/8/2007 - 5/8/2007$1,397

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2007
Funding Finish 2007
GNo G0187768
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20063 grants / $103,475

Domestic subversions:maternalism and cross-cultural histories$100,000

Funding body: ARC (Australian Research Council)

Funding body ARC (Australian Research Council)
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Discovery Projects
Role Lead
Funding Start 2006
Funding Finish 2008
GNo G0186586
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON Y

Dancing in the Dust: transgressions of gender and race in the ballet Corroboree 1954$2,725

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme New Staff Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2006
Funding Finish 2006
GNo G0186870
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

50th Anniversary Conference of the Oriental Society of Australia, The Womens Collee, The University of Sydney, 4/12/2006 - 7/12/2006$750

Funding body: University of Newcastle

Funding body University of Newcastle
Project Team Professor Victoria Haskins
Scheme Travel Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2006
Funding Finish 2006
GNo G0187050
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON Y

20052 grants / $7,100

Research travel USA American Indian domestic service$3,600

Funding body: Flinders University

Funding body Flinders University
Project Team

Victoria Haskins
Scheme Unknown
Role Lead
Funding Start 2005
Funding Finish 2005
GNo
Type Of Funding Internal
Category INTE
UON N

Domestic Frontiers: white mistress and Aboriginal servant in Australian history$3,500

Funding body: Flinders University

Funding body Flinders University
Project Team

Victoria Haskins
Scheme Unknown
Role Lead
Funding Start 2005
Funding Finish 2005
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON N

20042 grants / $16,000

Marriages of Inconvenience: Relationships between Aboriginal Men and White Women$11,000

Funding body: Flinders University

Funding body Flinders University
Project Team

Victoria Haskins
Scheme Research Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2004
Funding Finish 2004
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON N

Domestic Frontier: white mistresses and Aboriginal domestic workers in South Australian history$5,000

Funding body: Flinders University

Funding body Flinders University
Scheme Unknown
Role Lead
Funding Start 2004
Funding Finish 2004
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON N

20021 grants / $1,000

Marriages of Inconvenience: Relationships between Aboriginal Men and White Women$1,000

Funding body: Flinders University

Funding body Flinders University
Project Team

Victoria Haskins
Scheme Research Grant
Role Lead
Funding Start 2002
Funding Finish 2002
GNo
Type Of Funding Aust Competitive - Commonwealth
Category 1CS
UON N
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Research Supervision

Number of supervisions

Completed13
Current3

Current Supervision

Commenced Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2022 PhD The Heart of Country - A History of the Worimi Nation and the Myall Lakes Region PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2020 PhD Gaze Returned: The Politics of Colonial Visual Culture and Iconography in India and Australia 1860 – 1950 PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2017 PhD 'The Early History of Civilisation at Brisbane Water has Been, to a Considerable Extent, Forgotten by Even its Oldest European Inhabitants' Henry Kendall, 1875. Remembering Contact History on the Central Coast of New South Wales. PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor

Past Supervision

Year Level of Study Research Title Program Supervisor Type
2023 PhD Our Country, Our Healer: Exploring the Traditional Lithotherapeutics of the Aboriginal Pharmacopoeia PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2023 PhD Visible and Vocal: Black Women in Eighteenth Century Britain c. 1707-1834 PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2022 PhD The Kidnapping of Aboriginal People in Colonial Queensland 1859-1897: Labour, Violence and Government Inaction PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2021 PhD From Protection to Welfare: Orchestrated Disadvantage in NSW 1937–1943 PhD (Aboriginal Studies), The Wollotuka Institute, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2021 PhD ‘Stop the War on Aborigines’: The Communist Party of Australia and the Fight for Aboriginal Rights 1920-1934 PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2020 PhD An ‘Army of Superfluous Women’: Australian Single Women and the First World War PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2019 PhD The Politics of Gendered Memory of Japanese "Comfort Women" PhD (Politics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Co-Supervisor
2019 PhD Early Seamen's Missions in the British World PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2009 PhD Pioneer Women and Social Memory: Shifting Energies, Changing Tensions PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle Principal Supervisor
2007 PhD The Moravian Missionaries in Australia History, Flinders University Sole Supervisor
2006 PhD Annie Heloise Abel History, Flinders University Principal Supervisor
2005 PhD Farm Archaeology Ruins Archaeology, Flinders University Co-Supervisor
2004 Masters Representing women's histories in museums Archaeology, Flinders University Co-Supervisor
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Research Collaborations

The map is a representation of a researchers co-authorship with collaborators across the globe. The map displays the number of publications against a country, where there is at least one co-author based in that country. Data is sourced from the University of Newcastle research publication management system (NURO) and may not fully represent the authors complete body of work.

Country Count of Publications
Australia 37
United States 4
United Kingdom 2
Canada 1
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News

A woman and a man engaged in a conversation

News • 1 Mar 2023

Papers of Newcastle Aboriginal activist to see the light of day: Stan Masterson Collection

Newcastle is well-known for its energetic trade unionism dating back to the 1870s, more obscure is their support for Indigenous activists fighting injustice, but all this is about to change with the digitising of the papers of the late Stan Masterson through the University of Newcastle’s Special Collections Services.

Four beautiful women in formal dress holding award certificates and smiling

News • 7 Dec 2022

A trove of extraordinary stories: Collaborative project wins top multicultural history award

An online exhibition documenting the lives, experiences and histories of the intrepid Indian and Chinese nursemaids who travelled the circuits of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries won the 2022 Addi Road Multicultural History Award at the History Council NSW (HCNSW) award’s ceremony last night .

A black& white head& shoulder shot of a nursemaid

News • 31 Aug 2022

Ayahs and Amahs project: Online exhibition goes live

The Ayahs and Amahs online exhibition brings to life the stories, memories and histories of the intrepid Indian and Chinese nursemaids who travelled the circuits of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A drawing from the 1800s on a boat showing a tiger breaking out of a wooden cage and frightened crew members, including an Ayah protecting a baby

News • 13 Apr 2022

An Ayah in New York: Professor Haskins awarded Distinguished Visiting Scholar Fellowship at New York’s City University

Known as ayahs, South Asian nursemaids were the mainstay of child-care for British families in India during the Raj (1757-1947), and they travelled the world, accompanying European and elite Indian families on shipboard travel along the circuits of empire.

woman with VR headset and hand controls

News • 11 Jan 2022

Making history virtually real: Purai to work with expert to recreate First Nations histories

A trip to a 19th century tomb and the oldest theatre in NSW were just two of the places Purai Global Indigenous History Centre staff and affiliates visited without having to leave their office.

Woman smiling in front of Aboriginal artwork and University banner

News • 24 Nov 2021

15-year milestone for Professor Victoria Haskins

This year marks a 15-year milestone for Professor Victoria Haskins and to celebrate, the College of Human and Social Futures (CHSF) presented Professor Haskins with a Service Award at the College’s 2021 Excellence & Recognition Awards evening.

Mature-aged students sitting around a table looking at a screen saying,

News • 31 May 2021

Archive fever – Archive phobia: A seminar on archival research for students researching Indigenous histories

Professor Victoria Haskins’ journey into archival research began with a box of diaries, letters and photographs found in her aunty’s garage in Woolgoolga, NSW.

older man in cap standing close to woman with long hair smiling

News • 23 Mar 2021

Bringing unheard voices back into collective memory

Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt AO delivered the inaugural John Maynard Aboriginal History Lecture at University House to an on-line and face-to-face audience of over 180, on 17 March 2021 as part of the Purai Global Indigenous History Centre showcase.

Professor Maynard sitting holding a book in front of a cabinet of memorabilia collected as an historian

News • 8 Mar 2021

Reclaiming History: the unconventional legacies of a leading Aboriginal historian

Emeritus Professor John Maynard’s reputation as a trailblazer is well-deserved so it is only fitting that this historian, whose journey began with researching his own family’s history, is honoured in the InauguralJohn Maynard Aboriginal History Lecture.

Handwritten family history tree showing five plus generations

News • 24 Feb 2021

More than a story: Family History webinar series

It was the 1920 abduction and enslavement of Kath Apma Travis Penangke’s 11-year-old grandmother from Alice Springs by anthropologist, Dr Herbert Basedow and Professor Haskins’ discovery of her great grandmother's diaries which bought these two women together.

man iand woman in togas with torso of roman soldier

News • 9 Feb 2021

Academy Excellence: Nomination of Purai Members to Humanities Academy Highlights Importance of Global Indigenous History

With the election of Purai’s joint Directors, Emeritus Professor John Maynard and Professor Victoria Haskins, to the Australian Academy of the Humanities late last year, the University of Newcastle’s Purai Indigenous Global History Centre now boasts four historians championing the contribution that humanities, arts and culture can make to national life.

Lady with ayah

News • 14 Aug 2020

Research uncovers the historical experiences of the earliest global domestic workers

A new research project will bring to life the experiences and histories of the world’s first travelling global domestic workers, the Indian Ayahs and the Chinese Amahs who were employed by colonial families during the period of British colonialism.

Professor Victoria Haskins smiling and holding her book, 'Colonialism and Domestic Service.'

News • 28 Apr 2020

History of Domestic Service Podcast

This episode of the HASS School Human Experience podcast features Professor Victoria Haskins who shares an intriguing family history discovery that sparked her wonderful academic journey.

News • 9 Dec 2019

Discovery Project grant success for Centre for 21st Century Humanities researchers

Centre for 21st Century Humanities members Professor Victoria Haskins and Associate Professor Bill Palmer have both been awarded ARC Discovery Project grants.

News • 25 Oct 2019

Centre fosters important discussion on artificial intelligence and the future of humanity

Understanding the impact artificial intelligence is having on humanity now and into the future.

Cubist style artwork in warm tones with two dark figures and white square boxes representing houses.

News • 22 Aug 2019

Chief investigators meet: history of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board (1883-1969) project

A digital map, touring exhibition, inclusion of research material in the Australian National University's Indigenous Studies major and the painstaking copying, by hand, of minutes from archives are just some of the many outcomes produced by researchers involved in the History of the Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board (AP/WB) 1883-1969 project.

Alana Piper workshop

News • 11 Aug 2019

Digital Humanities workshop up skills FEDUA researchers

Dr Alana Piper, visiting digital humanities specialist recently hosted a workshop for the Faculty of Education and Arts.

News • 21 Jun 2019

Humanities highlighted at regional conference

50 humanities centre academics and postgraduate students from Newcastle and around the country came together to discuss strategies and developments in humanities research in the regions.

News • 15 Apr 2019

Centre for 21st Century Humanities leads development of ground breaking software platform

The University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities (C21CH) is leading the development of a powerful software platform called the ‘Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia’ (TLCMap).

News • 28 Mar 2019

Centre projects focus on creating new knowledge in the 21st Century

The Centre for 21st Century Humanities is hosting eleven new projects this year that connect with the theme ‘Knowledge Creation in the 21st Century’.

Authors of Colonialism and Male Domestic service

News • 4 Mar 2019

New historical book reveals the cultural influence of ‘houseboys’ in the Asia Pacific

A new book co-authored by Centre for 21st Century Humanities Director, Professor Victoria Haskins, examines the role of Asian and Indigenous male servants across the Asia Pacific from the late-nineteenth century to the 1930s.

Inside the Shetland Museum and Archives: Display of uniform and devices used by domestic servants

News • 1 Apr 2018

Servants Past

Professor Haskins attended the 2018 European Social Science History Conference in Belfast being one of three panel members on a roundtable discussion centred on the idea of regulating domestic work in both historical/contemporary contexts, and colonial/non-colonial contexts.

News • 5 Mar 2018

Haskins Birkbeck fellowship spawns international collaborations

A successful fellowship to London inspires an MOU with Birkbeck.

News • 29 Aug 2017

Professor Haskins to take up Visiting Fellowship at Birkbeck

Member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities and Co-Director of Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre, Professor Victoria Haskins has been successful in an application for a Visiting Research Fellowship position at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.

News • 10 Jul 2017

New book reveals a fresh Australian perspective on the First World War

University of Newcastle historians have published a new book that explores race, gender, culture, politics and Australian society during the First World War.

Professor Hugh Craig

News • 9 May 2017

Centre for 21st Century Humanities leads funding bid to develop ground breaking software platform

The University of Newcastle’s Centre for 21st Century Humanities (C21CH) is leading a bid for funding to build a powerful software platform called the ‘Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia’ (TLCMap). TLCMap will allow humanities researchers to search the data held in different Australian repositories by location and time and compile new data sets. They could then add their own data and visualise the combinations through a map and a time series chart. A module to detect place names and time references in official records, diaries, newspaper articles and books is also part of the plan.

Remarkable advocate for the Yurok tribe, Ruth Kellett Roberts

News • 6 Apr 2017

UON researcher presents at University of California

Professor Victoria Haskins, Co-director of Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and a member of the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, recently presented a paper at the University of California, which drew on her latest research into Native American women in the 1920-30s.

Living with the Locals book cover

News • 1 Nov 2016

Living with the Locals

Without the generosity of Australian Indigenous people, the chances of an early European surviving a shipwreck or a penal escape were slim in the nineteenth century.

Photo of Prof John Maynard and members of research team

News • 7 Aug 2015

LANDMARK RESEARCH INTO ABORIGINES PROTECTION BOARD

First comprehensive study into the activities of the NSW Aborigines Protection Board begins.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

News • 19 Nov 2014

ARC Discovery Project funding success

Professor John Maynard and Associate Professor Victoria Haskins have been awarded more than $610,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for their research project The NSW Aborigines Protection/Welfare Board 1883-1969: A History.

ARC Discovery Projects 2015

News • 5 Nov 2014

ARC Discovery Projects 2015

The Faculty of Education and Arts at the University of Newcastle has secured six Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Program grants for 2015.

Black and white image of Indian woman in glasses looking to right of frame

News • 27 Oct 2014

Domestic workers, social security and gender politics in India

Purai Global Indigenous History Centre in association with the University of Newcastle Politics Discipline hosted a seminar with Professor Rajeshwari Deshpande based on her case study of domestic workers in two Indian states.

Victoria Haskins, blonde hair smiling in front of trees wearing dark green shirt

News • 22 Sep 2014

Anzac Commemoration Fellowship project highlighted

Professor Victoria Haskins' work on women in the First World War highlighted in an essay series for the ABC.

a womn on stage looking contemplative and three workshop participants listening and taking notes

News • 12 Jul 2014

Unlocking the chains of oppression: education is key

Over the last two months, Directors and Internal and External Affiliates of the Purai Indigenous Global History Centre have been working hard, in different ways to open educational pathways designed to unlock the keys of oppression.

A mass of swirling colour

News • 18 Jul 2012

Colonisation and domestic service: historical and contemporary perspectives research symposium

Professor Victoria Haskin’s Future Fellowship has bought together history, anthropology, gender studies, geography, fine art and law scholars from around the world to share insights about the connections between domestic service and colonisation.

Professor Victoria Haskins

Position

Professor
History
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures

Focus area

History

Contact Details

Email victoria.haskins@newcastle.edu.au
Phone (02) 4921 5221
Link UoN Blogs

Office

Room HCISS Office
Building University House (Purai)
Location Callaghan Newcastle City
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
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Research Networks

Victoria Haskins on ABC's Radio National Big Ideas program

Victoria Haskins on Radio National's Big Ideas

Listen to Victoria Haskins on ABC's talk about The Great War: Service and patriotism

Living with the locals

Living with the locals

Professors Victoria Haskins and John Maynard write about European castaways and escapees who lived with Indigenous communities in colonial Australia.