Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Bain Attwood has published extensively in the history of colonialism. His sole authored books include The Making of the Aborigines (1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003), Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History (2005) and Possession: Batman's Treart and the Matter of History (2009). He has also done a jointly authored book with his colleague Andrew Markus on the 1967 Referendum (2007), and edited several collections of essays. He has held fellowships at the Australian National University (2001-03) and Cambridge University (2007-08), and the Harvard Chair of Australian Studies (2014-15), undertaken work for the National Museum of Australia, and has written occasionally on indigenous history for newspapers.
Supervision interests
I welcome students wishing to undertake theses in the fields of indigenous history, history and memory, and public history.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, La Trobe University
1981 → 1984
History, MPhil, The University of Auckland
1977 → 1978
BSocSc, University of Waikato
1974 → 1976
Keywords
- History and Memory
- Indigenous history
Network
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Projects 2005 2019
A History of the Pilbara Aboriginal Strike as Event, Experience and Myth
Australian Research Council (ARC)
7/01/13 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Dispossession, history and restorative justice: a comparative study of three settler societies
Australian Research Council (ARC)
2/01/08 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
A matter of history: possession, colonialism and Batman's treaties. ID: DP0557757
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/05 → 31/12/06
Project: Research
Research Output 1986 2018
Protection claims: The British, Maori and the islands of New Zealand, 1800–40
Attwood, B. M., 2018, Protection and Empire: A Global History. Benton, L., Clulow, A. & Attwood, B. (eds.). 1st ed. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, p. 153-174 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Denial in a settler society: The Australian case
Attwood, B., 1 Sep 2017, In : History Workshop Journal. 84, 1, p. 24-43 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Protection and Empire: A Global History
Benton, L., Clulow, A. & Attwood, B., 2017, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press (Anthem Press). 274 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors
Attwood, B. M., 2017, 1st ed. Clayton VIC Australia: Monash University Publishing. 225 p. (Australian History)Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
The international difficult histories boom, the democratization of history, and the National Museum of Australia
Attwood, B. M., 2015, The International Handbooks of Museum Studies; Volume 4: Museum Transformations. Coombes, A. E. & Phillips, R. B. (eds.). 1 ed. Chichester West Sussex UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 61 - 83 23 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review