Emeritus Professor of History and Digital Humanities, University of Tasmania

Co-founder, Return, Reconcile, Renew: International Centre for Repatriation Training, Practice and Research, The Australian National University

Interests

  • History of Physical Anthropology
  • Western Biomedical Sciences and Indigenous Peoples
  • eResearch in Intellectual History and Heritage Studies

Education

  • PhD in History, 1985, James Cook University
  • BA Honours in History, 1978, James Cook University

Research

 
Mapping Frontier Violence and the Theft of the Ancestral Dead in Northern Australia
 
Return, Reconcile, Renew: International Centre for Repatriation Training, Practice and Research, Australian National University
 
Mapping Anthropological and Ethnographic Collecting in Colonial Australia
 
South Seas: Cross-cultural encounters during James Cook’s first Pacific voyage, 1768-1771
 
Australian First Peoples and Western Scientists
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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognise their connections to land, water and community. I pay my respects to them and their cultures, and to Elders past, present and emerging.