Jan Critchett

Adjunct Professor: Faculty of Arts, Deakin University

Honorary Research Associate, University of Tasmania

Research Interests

  • Victorian Aboriginal history
  • Regional history, Western District of Victoria
  • Social history including race relations
  • Aboriginal Biographies

In terms of current research, I am involved in a project with Professor Lucy Frost to prepare a reading text for the presently unpublished 1844-1849 section of the journals of Anne Baxter Dawbin.

Recent Publications include

  • Untold Stories: Memories and Lives of Victorian Kooris. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1998.
  • Deputy-Editor, Biographical Dictionary of the Western District of Victoria. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1998.
  • "The Ethics of Writing Nineteenth Century Aboriginal Biographies." Tasmanian Historical Studies 5.2 (1997): 17-22.