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DR SARA WILLS



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: SENIOR LECTURER
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Homepage: http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/people/wills.html
Work: 8344 9975
Fax: 9347 7731
Room: 201
Level: 02
Building: 139 Barry St. Carlton
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
migration, multiculturalism, identity Australia, United Kingdom

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1989
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1999

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize University of Melbourne Dwight Prize 31-Dec-1989
Medal Queens College Wyvern Medal 31-Dec-1989

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
"Hostels, Hosts and Hospitality: A Social and Cultural History of Migrant Temporary Accommodation in Australia Since the Second World War" Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

  • Between the hostel and the detention centre: possible trajectories of migrant pain and shame in Australia
    Year: 2009
    Book: Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Publications in 2008

Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • 'Losing the right to country: the memory of loss and the loss of memory in claiming the nation as space'
    Year: 2007
    Book: Australian Studies Now
    Publisher: Indialog(New Delhi)
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Journal Articles

  • How to work together: adapting to an intercultural workplace
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Mosaic
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    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: http://www.fecca.org.au/Book_Reviews_004.cfm
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  • Warm and Fuzzy Multiculture: Fantasies of Terminological Supremacy in an Integrationist Society?; Review of Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll, Boderderwork in Multicultural Australia, 2006.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Southern Review
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 103-106
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • The Greening of William Morris
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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Book Chapters

  • 'There's so much in looking at those barks': Dja Dja Wurrung Etchings 2004-05
    Year: 2006
    Book: South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture
    Publisher: Monash University Press(Clayton)
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Journal Articles

  • Introduction: The Enchantment of Learning With Space
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Crossings
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 11-21
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • History('s) Re-turns; Review of K. Neumann's Refuge Australia


    Year: 2005
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 208-211
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  • Passengers of Memory: Constructions of British Immigrants in Post-Imperial Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: 51
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 94-107
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The Long-accustomed Yoke? Review of J. Jupp's The English in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: Autumn 2005
    Issue: 178
    Page numbers: 19-20
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Major Reference Works

  • Migrant Hostels:The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Migrant Hostels
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Teaching (a) Migrant Nation: From Anxious Managers and Curious Victims to Learning Identities
    Year: 2004
    Book: Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press(St Lucia)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Beauty contest for British bulldogs? negotiating (trans)national identities in suburban Melbourne
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 65-83
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  • Learning identities: teaching (a) migrant nation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Crossings
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: International Australian Studies Association(Brisbane)
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  • Losing the Right to Country: the Memory of Loss and the Loss of Memory in Claiming the Nation as Space
    Year: 2003
    Journal: New Formations
    Volume: winter
    Issue: 51
    Page numbers: 50-65
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  • Nature, socialism, livelihood: the greening of William Morris?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Melbourne Historical Journal
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 74-92
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Flora's Box: Empty Spaces, Memory and Migration
    Year: 2003
    Event name: History and the Meaning of Things, 2003 Seminar Series on History & Material Culture
    Conference Publication: History and the Meaning of Things, 2003 Seminar Series on History & Material Culture
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: Museum Victoria(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Un-stitching the Lips of a Migrant Nation
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 118
    Page numbers: 71-89
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Finding Room for Loss
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: 2001
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 73-78
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  • From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl: Embodying Rurality in Twentieth-Century Australia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Australian Studies
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 17-32
    Publisher: University of Queensland Press
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  • Woods Beyond Worlds? The Greening of William Morris
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australasian Victorian Studies Journal
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 137-149
    Publisher: University of New England(Armidale)
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