Staff profile

Dr Gwenda Tavan

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 320, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MA (Melbourne), PhD (La Trobe).

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Political Science Association. International Association of Australian Studies. Australian Historical Association.

Area of study

Politics
International Relations
Australian Studies

Research interests

International Relations

- Australia-Asia relations

Migration

- Immigration and nationalism

Political Theory and Political Philosophy

- History and politics of race

Teaching Units

POL1AUP - Australian Politics: Government and Society. POL1RAP - Representation and Participation in Australian Politics.

Recent Publications

Neumann, K and Tavan, G (ed.) 2009, How history matters in immigration and citizenship policy: The past in the present in Australian and New Zealand policy-making, Canberra, ANU E Press, ANZSOG series.

 

Tavan, G 2009, ‘Testing times: the problem of "history" in the Howard Government’s Australian citizenship test’, in K Neumann and G Tavan (eds), Does History Matter? Making and debating citizenship, immigration and refugee policy in Australia and New Zealand, Canberra, ANU E Press, ANZSOG series.

 

Tavan, G 2007, ‘Back to the Future? What the Howard Government’s citizenship reforms owe to past policies and practices – and what we can learn from this”, paper presented to ‘Governing By Looking Backwards: How History Matters in Society, Politics and Government, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 12-14 December.

 

Tavan, G 2007, ‘Politics or pragmatism’: Assessing the Howard Government’s new Citizenship regime’, paper presented to the 9th biennial European Australian Studies Association Conference, Universities of Roskilde and Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September.

 

Tavan, G 2007, ‘John Howard’s Multicultural Paradox’, paper presented to John Howard’s Decade conference, School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 3-4 March.

 

Tavan, G 2006, ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Australian Mutliculturalism during the Howard Years’, in G Willett (ed.), Thinking Down Under: Australian politics, Society and Culture in Transition, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier.

 

Tavan, G 2005, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia, Scribe Publications.

 

Tavan, G 2005, ‘The limits of discretion: the role of the Liberal Party in the dismantling of the White Australia policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51(3): 418-28.

 

Tavan, G 2004, ‘The Abolition of the White Australia Policy: Elite Conspiracy or Will of the Australian People?’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39(1): 109-25.

 

Gurry. M and Tavan, G 2004, ‘Too Soft and Long-Haired?: The Department of External Affairs and the Dismantling of the White Australia Policy’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 58(1): 127–42