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Dr Tracey Banivanua-Mar

Dr Tracey Banivanua-Mar 

Lecturer & Honours Coordinator
Room: David Myers Building E121
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2373
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: t.banivanuamar@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA (Hons) Melb., PhD Melb.

 

Tracey’s teaching and research interests include colonial and transnational Indigenous histories with a concentration on Australia and the western Pacific. She has published on race relations and the dynamics of violence in Queensland’s sugar districts during the era of the Queensland-Pacific indentured labour trade, and nineteenth-century histories of Australian South Sea Islanders. She is currently working on legal and ritual methods of land possession and dispossession in the western Pacific region, and a transnational history of decolonization. Current research interests include:Race formation and race relations; colonialism and colonial relations; Indigenous studies; Australian and Pacific colonial history.

Prizes: Shortlisted for 2007 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards Australian History Prize (Violence and Colonial Dialogue).

Shortlisted for 2007 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards John and Patricia Ward History Prize, (Violence and Colonial Dialogue).

Winner of Dennis Wettenhall Prize for Research in Australian History, University of Melbourne, 2002.

Research Projects

I am currently working on a history of Indigenous transnationalisms during the era of decolonization in Australia and the western Pacific (1962 to the present). I am also working on a project looking at the legal and social rituals of land dispossession in the Pacific basin from the 1830s to 1879, and co-editing a collection of essays with Dr. Penelope Edmonds on the control, management and marking of space in settler-colonies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.

Violence and Colonial Dialogue
Research Publications

Selected Publications include:

Books

  • Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australia-Pacific Labor Trade, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
  • Banivanua Mar, T. and Evans, J., (eds.), Writing Colonial History: Comparative Perspectives, Melbourne: RMIT Publishers, 2002.

Book Chapters

  • 'Stabilising Colonial Violence: Indentured Labour and Settlement in Colonial Quennsland', Writing Colonial History: Comparative Perspectives, Ed(s). Julie Evans and Tracey Banivanua Mar, Carlton, Dept. of History, University of Melbourne, 2002.
  • “Cannibalism in Fiji: A Study in Colonialism’s Discursive Atavism’, Grimshaw, P. and R. McGregor, (eds.), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006, pp. 155-75.
  • “Sugar and Labor: Tracking Empires”, Benjamin, T., (ed.), Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450, Detroit: McMillan Reference, USA 2007, pp. 1064-67.

Articles

  • Human Rights through the Lens of Critical Race Theory, Just Policy, Vol. 43 , 2007.
  • A thousand miles of cannibal lands: imagining away genocide in the re-colonization of West Papua, Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2008.
Current Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics
  • Issa Farrah, Ph.D, A history of the Somali diaspora to Australia.
  • Ben Silverstein, Ph.D,  Indirect Rule in a Settler Colony: the Australian Aboriginal Model State.
Research Grants
  • 2008. La Trobe University Central Grants Scheme for ‘Sailing the Winds of Change: genealogies of decolonization in the western Pacific’
  • 2006. Participant in Decolonization Seminar run by Library of Congress and American Historical Association.
  • 2002 Australian Research Council Early Career Initiative Grant, for project: ‘The Mission to Civilise: Colonialism, Race and Criminal Codes’.

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