Staff profile

Professor Richard Broome

Honorary Research Associate

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E104, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (UNSW), PhD (Sydney), FAHA.

Membership of professional associations

Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities

Area of study

Aboriginal Studies
Australian Studies
History

Brief profile

Professor 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. He is currently co-editor of a ranked journal Australian Historical Studies. Professor Broome recently received a La Trobe University Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2010. Professor Broome was also awarded an Australian Teaching and Learning Council award in 2010 for 'outstanding contributions to student learning'.

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'.

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History

- Aboriginal history

Australian History

- Colonial Australia

Migration

- Australian immigration

Recent publications

Books

  • Broome, R 2010, Aboriginal Australians:A history since 1788, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
  • Broome, R and Manning, C 2006, 'A Man of All Tribes': The Life of Alick Jackomos, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2006.
  • Broome, R 2005, Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800, Allen & Unwin, Sydney.
  • Broome, R and Jackomos, A 1998, Sideshow Alley, Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
  • Broome, R 2001, Aboriginal Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance, 1788-2001, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, revised 3rd edition.
  • Broome, R 2001, Coburg: Between Two Creeks, Moreland City Council and Coburg Historical Society, revised 2nd edition.
  • Broome, R 1986, The Victorians: Arriving, Sydney, Fairfax, Syme & Weldon.
  • Broome, R 1980, Treasure in Earthen Vessels: Protestant Christianity in New South Wales, 1900-1914, St. Lucia, University of Queensland Press.

Book Chapters

  • Broome, R 2003, ‘The Statistics of Frontier Conflict’, in Bain Attwood and S. G. Foster, Frontier Conflict. The Australian Experience, National Museum of Australia.
  • Broome, R 2002, '"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.

Research projects

Victorian Aborigines Advancement League is a project is being undertaken with the full cooperation of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organisation still extant in Australia. It will produce the first detailed history of the Victorian Advancement League, adding to the League’s short history Victims or Victors? (1985).