President

Professor Kate Darian-Smith

Professor Kate Darian-Smith is Director of the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. She is the Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Arts. Kate has interests in Australian cultural and social history, particularly in the twentieth century; war and Australian society, with reference to gender; the relationship between memory and history; museum studies and forms of exhibiting histories and cultures; and colonial discourse and postcolonial studies. Her current project is a social and cultura l h istory of agricultural shows in Australia , funded by the Australian Research Council. She is a convenor of the 'Cultural Histories and Geographies' node of the ARC funded Cultural Research Network (2005-9); and a chief investigator in an ARC-funded special project in conjunction with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, ANU and Sydney University on 'Writing for Scholars' (2005).

Her many publications include: On the Home Front: Melbourne in wartime 1939-1945 (OUP, 1990), and the edited collections: Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia (OUP, 1994, 1997); Text, Theory, Space: land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia (Routledge, 1996); Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History (special issue of Australian Historical Studies, 2002); and Teaching Australian Studies: Thinking Across Cultures (Queensland University Press, 2004). Kate has recently co-edited, with Michael Cathcart, a major reference book: Stirring Australian Speeches: A Definitive Collection from Botany to Bali (MUP, 2004). She is a Research Associate at Museum Victoria , and serves on a number of editorial boards, including as Chair of the Board of Management of Meanjin journal.

Kate has been involved in Australian Studies activities in Britain , continental Europe and North America for many years. She has directed the government-funded 'Australian Studies in Taiwan' project (with Griffith University); since 2003 has been the director of the 'Australian Studies in Indonesia' project funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute; is a member of the consortia (headed by the University of Queensland) which manages, on behalf of the Australian-China Council, Australian Studies initiatives in China; and has worked with the Australia-Japan Foundation to assist the growth of Australian Studies in Japan.

Vice President

Dr Andrew Hassam

Andrew Hassam is Director of the Australian Studies graduate program at Monash University , having previously founded the Australian Studies program at the University of Wales , Lampeter. He has held a number of research fellowships within Australia , including a Harold White Fellowship (1992), an Australian Bicentennial Fellowship (1994), a C. H. Currey Memorial Fellowship (1995) and a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University , Canberra (1998). He has published widely on nineteenth-century migrant diaries, including Sailing to Australia ( 1994) and Through Australian Eyes (2000 ). He is currently writing 'Whingeing Poms and Whining Aussies', a study of the creation of the Whingeing Pom stereotype in Australia in the 1950s and its adaptation to serve the new social and political debates of the 1960s and 1970s.

Andrew also has research interests in Australian Studies teaching internationally and led two collaborative projects that investigated the teaching, learning and assessment of Australian Studies in the UK. He is an accredited practitioner of the UK Higher Education Academy, served as a member of the UK QAA Benchmark Group in Area Studies, and is a past member of the advisory board of the UK LTSN Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.

Secretary

Dr Marguerite Nolan

Maggie Nolan is a lecturer in Australian Studies at the Brisbane campus of Australian Catholic University. She completed her PhD on Indigenous Australian literatures at the University of Stirling in Scotland. as a Commonwealth Scholar to the UK. Her research interests include Indigenous Australian literatures and the representation of race and ethnic identities in Australian literature and culture. More specifically, she is interested in cases of mistaken identity, imposture and hoaxing in Australian cultural and literary history, and the range of issues, questions and debates they generate. She has published book chapters and articles on a number of such cases. In 2004, She co-edited (with Carrie Dawson) a special issue of Australian Literary Studies, Who's Who? Hoaxes, Imposture and Identity Crises in Australian Literature. She is presently working on a project titled 'Assuming Identity: Appropriation, Assimilation and Identification in Australian Literary Culture.' In 2005, she also co-editing a special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies (JAS) on 'Benevolence'.

Maggie has been the secretary of InASA since 2002. In June 2005, as an Executive member of InASA she convened, in collaboration with Weemala, the Indigenous support unit at ACU's Brisbane campus, a symposium on Indigenous Issues in Australian Universities: Teaching, Research, Support.

Treasurer

Dr Catriona Elder

Catriona Elder is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her research interests include race and ethnicity studies, racism and national identity and racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australia. Current research projects include work on the policy and practices of Reconciliation in Australia and an extension of her PhD work on assimilation, national identity and popular fiction. Other projects include a book on the idea of Australian national identity.

Executive Members

Associate Professor Stephen Alomes

Associate Professor Stephen Alomes is author of a number of publications on Australian cultural and intellectua l h istory and contemporary popular culture, including A Nation at Last? The Changing Character of Australian Nationalism 1880-1988 (1988). He has co-edited A Changing France in a Changing World (1994), Australian Nationalism: A Documentary History (1991), Post-Pop (1991), French Worlds Pacific Worlds: French Nuclear Testing in Australia 's Backyard (1998) and High Mark: Australian Football and Australian Culture (1998).

He was the co-founder of the Australian Studies Association in 1983 (now InASA) and from 1995-9 was co-convenor of the Australian Football seminars at Victoria University of Technology. He has also convened conferences on Australian Studies, contemporary popular culture, the Sixties and the transmission of cultural institutions to Australia. When London Calls: The Expatriation of Australian Creative Artists to Britain was published by Cambridge University Press in 1999.

In 2001/01 he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. He teaches Australian Studies at Deakin University , Melbourne and Geelong. His research interests include: nationalism and multiculturalism/political ideology/populism in a globalising world; cultura l h istory, intellectua l h istory, popular culture and sport and globalisation; overseas images of Australia , Australian Studies overseas and expatriates; and the colonial cultural cringe.

Dr David Carter (editor Crossings)

David Carter is Director of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland. He has wide experience in teaching Australian studies and in building Australian studies programs internationally. He has worked on Australian studies projects in Thailand and Taiwan, is Project Manager of the Australia-China Council's Australian Studies in China programme, was a Board Member of the Australia-Japan Foundation from 1998-2004, overseeing the introduction of a new Australian studies programme, and is on the steering committees of Australian Studies developments in Indonesia and India.

David's most recent book is Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity: Issues in Australian Studies (Pearson Education, forthcoming, 2005). He is the author of A Career in Writing: Judah Waten and the Cultural Politics of a Literary Career (1998), which was awarded the Walter McCrae Russell Award for Australian literary scholarship, and the editor or co-editor of The Ideas Market: An Alternative Take on Australia's Intellectual Life (2004), Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures (2004), Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs (2001), The Republicanism Debate (1993), and Images of Australia (1992).

He is currently researching a history of middlebrow culture in Australia , a topic on which he has published in Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World, eds Ryan and Wallace-Crabbe, Harvard UP, 2004.

Dr Christy Collis

Christy Collis lectures in Media and Communication in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Her primary research interests are the Australian Antarctic Territory , Australian 4WD cultures, and the cultural geographies of creative industries. Christy is also an executive member of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia.

Professor Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys is Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. Current Project : Historical Experts and Indigenous Litigants. ARC funded project with Larissa Behrendt, Ted Wright, Ann Genovese, and Alex Reilly. Honours and Awards : Visiting Professor in Australian Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2003-4; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2003- ; Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1997 – ; Doctor of the University (honoris causa), University of Technology, Sydney, 1995

Books

• With John Docker, Is History Fiction? UNSW Press, 2005
• Palgrave, 2005
• 2002 Freedom Ride: A Freedomrider Remembers, Allen and Unwin, Sydney. (Winner of the Stanner Prize, AIATSIS, 2003; 'Highly Commended' at Human Rights Awards, HREOC, Australia, December 2002; short-listed for the non-fiction prize by the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2003, the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2002.)
• 1988 For and Against Feminism: A Personal Journey into Feminist Theory and History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney

Edited books

• 2005 With Mary Spongberg and Barbara Caine, eds, A Companion to Women's Historical Writing, Palgrave.
• 2001 with Henry Chan and Nora Chiang (eds), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, Monograph 3, Interdisciplinary Group for Australian Studies, National Taiwan University.
• 1999 with Julianne Schultz (eds), Journalism: Print, Politics, and Popular Culture, University of Queensland Press.
• 1987 with Allan Martin and Tim Rowse (eds), Australians Since 1939, Fairfax, Syme, and Weldon. Volume 10 in the series Australians: A Historical Library.
• 1986 with John Merritt (eds), Better Dead than Red: Australia 's First Cold War, vol. 2 . Allen and Unwin.
• 1985 with John Merritt, eds, Australia 's First Cold War: Volume I: Society, Communism and Culture , Allen and Unwin.
• 1982 Labour History Group, eds, What Rough Beast? The State and Social Order in Australian History, Allen and Unwin.
• 1978 with Andrew Markus, eds, Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Working Class in Australia , Hale and Iremonger.
• 1975 with Susan Eade and Peter Spearritt , eds Women at Work, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History

Andrea Gaynor

Andrea Gaynor lectures in Australian history at The University of Western Australia. She was attracted to history as a discipline that looks to the past for engaging and explanatory stories about people, and now has teaching and research interests in Australian environmenta l h istory and the history of technology, heritage and history, Australian cultura l h istory, gender in history, and Australian studies. She has published on topics as diverse as landscape art and feral cats, and in 2002 co-edited (with Mathew Trinca and Anna Haebich ) Country: Visions of Land and People in Western Australia ( W.A. Museum , 2002). Her latest book is Harvest of the Suburbs: An environmenta l h istory of growing food in Australian cities (UWA Press, 2005).

Steve Hemming

Steve Hemming is the Program Co-ordinator of Australian Studies at Flinders University in South Australia. He was a curator in anthropology and history at the South Australian Museum for a number of years and has taught Australian Studies and Indigenous Studies at the University of South Australia. He has published across a broad range of disciplinary areas with a current research focus in cultura l h eritage, cultural landscapes and Indigenous archaeology.
Steve Hemming has worked for a number of Indigenous organisations as a native title anthropologist, a cultura l h eritage researcher and an exhibition development officer. With Dr Doreen Kartinyeri, he established the South Australian Museum 's national Aboriginal Family History Project and has conducted a number of collaborative research projects with Indigenous nations on the River Murray. He is a member of Australian Insititute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and has worked with the South Australian Education Department on circulum development in Australian Studies and Indigenous Studies. He also has research interests in cultural studies, development studies and policy development. He is presently working on a number of government-based and community research projects focussing on water and natural resources management.
Recent publications include:

Hemming, Steve & Trevorrow, Tom (2005) 'Kungun Ngarrindjeri Yunnan : archaeology, colonialism and re-claiming the future', In Smith, Claire & Martin Wobst, H. (eds.) Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Theory and Practice, Routlege, London , 243-261.

Dr Anna Johnston

Anna Johnston teaches Australian and postcolonial literature at the University of Tasmania , where she is also the co-Associate Director of the Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath. She is the author of Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 (CUP 2003) and the co-editor of In Transit: Travel, Text, Empire (Peter Lang 2002). Her research has focused on colonial and postcolonial literary cultures, and contemporary autobiography. She is currently engaged in an ARC project entitled 'The "Paper War": Missionary Textuality and Early Nineteenth Century Australian Colonial Culture' and is also working on the links between travel writing, anthropology, and colonialism.

Dr Tseen Khoo

Dr Tseen Khoo is a Monash University Research Fellow (2004-9), based in Sociology , School of Political and Social Inquiry. Previous to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2001-4) in the School of Languages & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Queensland . She has published on Asian-Australian cultural production and politics, multicultural/race issues in Australia , and Asian-Canadian literature. Her monograph, Banana Bending: Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian Literatures , was published in 2003 by McGill-Queens University Press and Hong Kong University Press. Tseen is co-editor of Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia (University of Queensland Press, 2000; with Helen Gilbert [UQ] and Jacqueline Lo [ANU]) and Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English ( Hong Kong UP, 2005; with Kam Louie [ANU]). She manages the academic e-list, asian-australian , and is a committee member, e-list and web-manager for the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand ( ACSANZ ). Most recently, Tseen edited the refereed conference proceedings for The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (2005).

Professor Marilyn Lake

Professor Marilyn Lake holds an Australian Professorial Fellowship based at Latrobe University. She is also an Adjunct-Professor at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU. Her current project focuses on the emergence of white men's countries between 1890 and 1920 in South Africa , North America and Australasia. She has recently co-edited two books, one a collection of essays in trans-nationa l h istory, co-edited with Ann Curthoys , to be published by ANU Press in 2005; one called Memory, Monuments and Museums based on the Academy of Humanities Symposium held in Hobart in 2004, to be published by MUP in 2006.

Dr Josephine May

Jo May was born in 1950 in Eora country, at Annandale New South Wales, but she has lived most of her life on Awabakal lands around Newcastle. After working at various paid and unpaid jobs including theatre booking assistant, nurse, seasonal worker, bar attendant, high school teacher, full time parent and student, Jo trained as an historian and became an academic. Since 1991 she has taught Australian history and society at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests include the history of Australian education, and childhood and youth histories encompassing gender, race, class and age perspectives. Recently she has been focusing on Australian feature film representations of childhood and youth. Her research has been published in international and national scholarly journals, including Histoire de l'éducation, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and History of Education Review.

Dr Nicole Moore

Dr Nicole Moore is a lecturer in Australian Studies in the Department of English at Macquarie University in Sydney. She lectures in the core undergraduate Australian Studies Program at Macquarie as well as in Australian literature. She has published studies of twentieth century Australian women's writing, and is currently working on an ARC funded project on the history of literary censorship in Australia. Nicole is the reviews editor of Australian Feminist Studies.

Professor Richard Nile (editor Journal of Australian Studies)

Richard Nile is professor of Australian Studies at Curtin University of Technology. The editor since 1996 of InASA 's Journal of Australian Studies, Richard has held appointments: at the University of Queensland as director of the Australian Studies Centre (1993-2000); at the University of London as deputy director of the Menzies Centre (1989-1992); and as a lecturer in Australian history at the Universities of New South Wales and Western Australia. The creator of the Australian Public Intellectual Network, Richard Nile has edited and published the work of close to 1000 research scholars across more than 800 fully referred publications, including eighty scholarly volumes, books and journals. A founding executive member of InASA (secretary 1996-98) and one of the association's architects, Richard also served on the founding executive of the European Association for Studies on Australia and, as membership secretary and treasurer, of the British Australian Studies Association (1989-1992).

Dr Peta Stphensen

Peta Stephenson specialises in the study of cross-cultural alliances between non-white migrant and Indigenous people. In 2004 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne , where she is currently working on two projects. The first is to translate her PhD thesis into a manuscript for publication. Her forthcoming book 'The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story' will discuss the varying ways in which Indigenous/Asian histories and identities are being creatively explored in cross-cultural artistic and theatrical production. Her second project explores why an increasing number of Indigenous Australians are identifying with Islam. Peta's research will forge new ways of understanding the long but largely unknown history of Islamisication in Indigenous communities, a history that questions the validity of dominant nationalist constructions and necessitates alternative notions of belonging, space and place.