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History Program
Staff Profiles
Dr Richard Broome
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Associate Professor
Room: David Myers Building E114
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2367
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: r.broome@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA UNSW, PhD Syd. FAHA |
Richard Broome lectured at La Trobe 1977-1981 before becoming a commissioned historian, writing Arriving (1984) and Coburg between Two Creeks (1987). He returned to La Trobe in 1987, being appointed Associate Professor in 1992.
He served on the History Institute of Victoria for ten years, being President 1995-1996; was journal editor for the Victorian Historical Journal for two years; consultant to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1991); authored brochures for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, and for Year 12 students in partnership with the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria. He was appointed Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in 2006
Richard’s teaching interests include Aboriginal History, Australian History, Australian migration and environmental history. His research interests currently focus on Aboriginal history.
Prizes include
- Coburg: Between two Creeks (1987)
Winner, Fellowship of Australian Writers Local History Prize (1987).
- Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800 (2005)
Short listed, HREOC non-fiction prize (2005)
Short listed, Victorian Premier’s Nettie Palmer non-fiction prize (2006)
Winner, NSW Premier’s Australian history prize (2006)
Winner, Victorian Community History Awards (2007) for the section 'Print publications'.
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Selected Publications include:
Books
- with Corinne Manning, 'A Man of All Tribes': The Life of Alick Jackomos, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.
- Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005.
- with Alick Jackomos, Sideshow Alley, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1998.
- Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance, 1788-2001, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 2001, revised 3rd edition.
- Coburg: Between Two Creeks, Moreland City Council and Coburg Historical Society, 2001, revised 2nd edition.
- The Victorians: Arriving, Sydney, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon, 1984.
- Treasure in Earthen Vessels: Protestant Christianity in New South Wales, 1900-1914, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1980.
Book Chapters
- Broome, R. ‘The Statistics of Frontier Conflict’, in Bain Attwood and S. G. Foster, Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience, National Museum of Australia, 2003, pp. 88-98.
- '"No One thinks of Us": The Framlingham Aboriginal Community in the Great Depression’, in P. Bastien and R. Bell (eds), Through Depression and War: The United States and Australia, Australian and American Fulbright Commission & Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, 2002, pp. 62-81.
- 'The Australian Reaction to Jack Johnson, Black Pugilist, 1907-9', reprinted in abridged form in David Headon (ed.), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2001, pp. 532-45.
Major Articles
- "The Politics and Ethics of Writing Indigenous Histories", Melbourne Historical Journal, vol. 33, 2005, pp. 6-10.
- ‘”There were Greens Every Year Mr Green was Here”: Right Behaviour and the Struggle for Autonomy at Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve’, History Australia, vol. 3, no. 2, December 2006.
- ‘Windows on Other Worlds. The Rise and Fall of Sideshow Alley’ Australian Historical Studies, vol. 30, no. 112: 1-22, April 1999.
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- Chris Fifos (PhD) a History the Greek Community Organisation of Melbourne
- Jennifer Gerrand (MA) Sectarian Violence in Ireland and 1840s Port Phillip
- David Henderson PhD) German-Australian interments in the Second World War
- Janine Rizzetti (MA) the Amoval of Judge Willis in Port Phillip
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