Staff profile

Dr Jennifer Anne Jones

Lecturer in Australian Indigenous Studies

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

Art 207, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

PhD, University of Adelaide

Membership of professional Associations

International Australian Studies Association

Area of study

Aboriginal Studies
Australian Studies
History

Brief Profile

Jennifer joined La Trobe University in July 2011.  Her ARC Post Doctoral research, examining Aboriginal Branches of the Country Women’s Association of NSW 1956-1972, was conducted at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis, completed in 2002, examined the communities of commitment that supported foundational Aboriginal women writers during the construction of their life stories, and the textual impact of these mentors and editors upon the published work.

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History

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Australian History

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Teaching Units

  • ABS1IIA- Introduction to Indigenous Australia
  • ABS2/3GAS- Governing Aborigines?
  • ABS2/3 RAB- Reading Aboriginality

Recent Publications

Books

  • Jones, Jennifer, Black Writers and White Editors: Episodes of collaboration and compromise in Australian publishing history, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.

Book Chapters

  • Jones, Jennifer, ‘Perpetuating white Australia: Aboriginal self-representation, white editing and preferred stereotypes’. Creating White Australia, Carey, J and McLinsky, C (eds.) Sydney University Press, Sydney, 2009.
  • Jones, Jennifer, ‘Cross-Racial Collaboration in the Country Women’s Association’, Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, Boucher, L, Carey, J, Ellinghaus, K (eds.) RMIT Publishing in association with the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2007, Available

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Jones, Jennifer, ‘Dancing with the Prime Minister’, Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia, 3, 1, 2012: 101-113, ISSN 2013-6897, available http://www.ub.edu/dpfilsa/jeasaiindexvol3no1.html

Research projects

  • Saving Aboriginal Children, a history of Save the Children Fund Aboriginal Preschools in Australia.
  • Disparate Housewives: Rural women, cross-racial collaboration and life writing in the Country Women’s Association of NSW 1956-1996.