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DR PENELOPE EDMONDS



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: ARC POST DOCTORAL FELLOW
Email:
Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/edmonds.html
Work: 8344 7496
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 345E
Level: 03
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Colonial and postcolonial history, Australian and Pacific-region contact history Australia, Pacific, colonial Australia, Canada

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
AUSTRALIAN HISTORY University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2002
HISTORY University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000
HERITAGE CONSERVATION University of Canberra 31-Dec-1989

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne Dennis Wettenhall prize for best PhD in Australian History 30-May-2006

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
Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies Chief Investigator TAS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY,
MUSEUM VIC,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2007

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 2008

Book Chapters

  • 'We think that this subject of the native races should be thoroughly gone into at the forthcoming Exhibition' The 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition
    Year: 2008
    Book: Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World
    Publisher: Monash University ePress(Monash)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • White Spaces? Racialised Geographies, Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism and the Location of Empire in Britain's Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim Colonies.
    Year: 2007
    Event name: Historicising Whiteness Conference
    Conference Publication: Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity
    Page numbers: 363-374
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • Rethinking Colonial Histories : New & Alternative Approaches
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Book Chapters

  • 'The Inconvenience and Immorality of Aborigines in the Town' : Racialised Space in Colonial Melbourne, 1836 - 1860
    Year: 2006
    Book: Sharing Spaces : Indigenous and Non - Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Rights
    Publisher: API Network(Perth)
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  • Dual Mandate, Double Work: Land, Labour and the Transformation of Native Subjectivity in Papua 1908-1940
    Year: 2006
    Book: Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • Imperial Objects, Truths and Fictions: Reading Nineteenth-Century Australian Colonial Objects as Historical Sources
    Year: 2006
    Book: Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • The Le Souef Box: Reflections on Imperial Nostalgia, Material Culture and Exhibitionary practice in Colonial Victoria
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 127
    Page numbers: 117-139
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • The Coalition's Straightjacket: the Diminuation of Australian Public Culture
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Socialist Objective
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 1
    Publisher: Senator Kim Carr(Carlton South)
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Major Reference Works

  • Batman's Hill:The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Batman's Hill
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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  • Founding Myths:The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: Founding Myths
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • From Bedlam to Incorporation: Whiteness and the Racialisation of Settler-Colonial Urban Space in Victoria, British Columbia, 1840s-1880s
    Year: 2004
    Book: Exploring the British World: Identity-Cultural Production-Institutions
    Publisher: RMIT Publishing(Melbourne)
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  • The Le Souef Box and the Proclamation Board
    Year: 2004
    Book: Treasures of the Museum
    Publisher: Museum Victoria(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia, by John Gascoigne
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Melbourne Historical Journal
    Volume: 31
    Page numbers: 94-96
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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