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Key researchers Py-Z:
ARC Senior Research Fellow, School of History & ClassicsPostgraduate, School of English and European Languages and Literatures
I am a masters student writing on colonial women in Van Diemen’s Land, focusing on the work and life of Mary Morton Allport.
Lecturer, Riawunna, University of Tasmania, Launceston
Research Interests: My research over recent years focuses on the practice of non-material cultural appropriation. I'm examining the range of arguments exhorting the alleged need of Australians and other Westerners to appropriate Aboriginal religions, spirituality, and assorted cultural traits, and exploring the potential consequences of this. My current research is examining the issue of universal cosmopolitanism within an Australian context, and tangentially issues pertaining to Aboriginal cultural identity.
Relevant Recent Publications:
- 2000 'James Cowan and the White Quest for the Black Self', Australian Aboriginal Studies, (forthcoming) (12,000 words).
- 2000 'Robert Lawlor Tells a "White" Lie', Journal of Australian Studies, No.66, 211-18.
- 2000'Black Spice for White Lives -- A Review Essay'. Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism, Vol.1 No.1, February, pp.149-61.
- 2000 'A Reply to David Tacey's "What Are We Afraid Of?: Intellectualism, Aboriginality, and the Sacred" '. Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.26, (forthcoming).
- 1999 'The Making of "Our Place": Settler Australians, Cultural Appropriation, and the Quest for Home'. Antithesis, Vol.10, pp.117-33
- 1998 'The Black Path to Jesus: The Christian Appropriation of Aboriginal Culture'. Australian Studies (Britain -- BAJA), Vol.13, No.2, pp.23-40.
- 1998 'The Jungian Quest for the Aborigine Within: A Close Reading of David Tacey's Edge of the Sacred: Transformation in Australia'. Melbourne Journal of Politics, Vol.25, pp.171-87.
- 1998 'Monica Furlong and the Quest for Fulfilment'. Australian Feminist Law Journal, Vol.11, pp.46-64.
School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania
I have a Master of Arts (Archaeology) from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and am a part-time PhD in the period of Tasmanian history from 1824 until the 1890s. I am particularly interested in the transformations to the cultural landscape effected by the early settlers. I am a member (very inactive at present) of Cultural Heritage Practitioners of Tasmania, a professional group of archaeologists and other cultural heritage practitioners working in Tasmania. I have also been involved with the Mt Direction Restoration Committee, as an archaeological advisor, and have worked as both an field archaeologist and as an archaeological consultant for a number of projects in the state, notably the excavations of the Ross Female Factory and the recent refurbishment of the Launceston Custom House.
