Biographies
is Associate Professor of History at Monash University and Adjunct
Professor in the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, The Australian
National University. He is the author of The Making of the Aborigines
(1989), Rights for Aborigines (2003) and Telling the Truth About
Aboriginal History (forthcoming), the editor of In the Age of
Mabo: History, Aborigines and Australia (1996), and co-editor
of Power, Knowledge and Aborigines (1992), Telling Stories:
Indigenous History and Memory in Australia and New Zealand (2001),
and Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience (2003). He
is currently working on a collaborative book about treaty-making,
commemoration and remembrance in Australia. Bain Attwood has
participated in public debates about Aboriginal history in reference
to constitutional change, native title, the stolen generations
and frontier conflict
is Professor of History at the Centre for Historical Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the editor of
Forests, Fields and Pastures, a special issue of Studies in
History (1998), and the author of The Great (forthcoming). He
is the managing editor of Tracts for the Times, a series of
books published in India on issues of critical contemporary
concern and debate, which include The Archaeology of Ayodhya,
The Question of Faith, Dalit Visions, Hindi Nationalism, and
Who Wants Democracy. Bhattacharya has participated in public
debates on writings of history and the politics of Hindutwa,
and been involved in developing a critique of existing school
syllabi and text-books in history. At present he is chairing
the national committee that is reworking the school syllabus
and text books in India. His current research includes a project
on custom and customary law in colonial India that explores
the logic of colonial codification and the politics of ethnographic
knowledge and the way histories of property are linked to histories
of emotion and sentiment
is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research,
The Australian National University. He has taught history at
the University of the West Indies and the American University
of Paris. He has published on the collective memory of slavery
in the Caribbean and is currently finishing a monograph on Caribbean
Migrants in the Modern Atlantic World
is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of
History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University
of Chicago. Among his recent books is Provincializing History:
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2001). He is
a founding editor of Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Studies
and is a co-editor of Critical Inquiry
is
Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He is the
author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making
of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (1994) and Why Marriage? The
History Shaping Today’s Debate over Gay Equality (2004),
and the coeditor of Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay
and Lesbian Past (1989) and special journal issues on ‘Gender
Histories and Heresies’ for Radical History Review (1992)
and ‘Thinking Sexuality Transnationally’ for GLQ:
Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (1999). He is currently at
work on The Strange Career of the Closet: Gay Culture, Consciousness,
and Politics from the Second World War to the Gay Liberation
Era. He testified as an expert witness on the history of antigay
discrimination at the 1993 trial of Colorado’s Amendment
2, which resulted in the Supreme Court’s Romer v Evans
decision that gay people could not be excluded from the political
process, and was the organiser and lead author of the Historians’
Amicus Brief in Lawrence v Texas, which weighed heavily in the
Supreme Court’s landmark 2003 decision overturning the
nation’s sodomy laws. George Chauncey has also participated
in several cases challenging the ban on gay marriage and become
involved in the public debate over such marriages
is Associate Professor at University of Technology, Sydney.
She is the author of numerous articles and essays on public
memory and historical consciousness in Australia, and the co-author
of History in Australia Today: Australians and the Past (forthcoming),
which explores current Australian historical sensibilities and
which is based on a national survey into how Australians think
about and use the past in their everyday life. She is founding
co-editor of the journal Public History Review and the co-editor
of the journal of the International Oral History Association,
Words and Silences. She is working on a collaborative project
about the history of Australian television, and is researching
a history of non-war memorials in Australia, called ‘Places
of the Heart’. Paula Hamilton has worked in a range of
projects with community groups, museums, heritage agencies and
local councils
is Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Committee
on Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research
in New York. He is the author of a number of books on the cultural
and political history of Mexico, including Exits from the Labyrinth:
Culture and Ideology in Mexican National Space (1992), Deep
Mexico, Silent Mexico: An Anthropology of Nationalism (2001)
and Death and the Idea of Mexico (forthcoming). He is currently
the editor of Public Culture. In 1998 Claudio Lomnitz wrote
a review that initiated a heated public debate with historian
Enrique Krauze on the privatization of culture and history writing
in Mexico; and in 2005 he engaged Samuel Huntington’s
use of history to enshrine a new modality of American nationalism
in a widely discussed essay in the Boston Review
is precariously employed as a research fellow at Swinburne University’s
Institute for Social Research in Melbourne and works part-time
as a freelance historian. He is the author of four and the editor
of two books, including Not the Way It Really Was (1992) and
Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany (2000).
In the past, he has written (about) postcolonial history in
Papua New Guinea, about postwar Germany, about histories and
memories of settler-indigenous conflict in Australia, about
World War II internment in Australia, about Pakeha-settler relations
in Aotearoa New Zealand (for the Waitangi Tribunal), and about
German literature. Currently he is working on two books about
Australian immigration and refugee policies. Forthcoming work
includes a biography, and a project about the memorialisation
of victims, bystanders and perpetrators. He contributes to academic
and non-academic journals and to newspapers, and also writes
creative non-fiction (or is it fiction?) for radio. Klaus Neumann
has contributed to debates about the historicisation and memorialisation
of the past in Papua New Guinea, Australia and Germany
is professor of sociology and founding director of the
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the
University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author
of The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961 (1991), and a coeditor
of Apartheid’s Genesis (1994) and Commissioning the Past:
Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(2003). Her current research comprises work on the politics
of sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa. This includes a
collaborative project on life and death in Agincourt, which
explores meanings and practices of death and dying in rural
Limpopo province in the midst of AIDS. Posel was one of a group
of historians/social researchers who produced the permanent
exhibition at the Apartheid Museum. One of WISER’s objectives
as a research institute is to promote public debate, and many
of their events are ‘public’ in the sense of drawing
audiences which extend beyond the academy
is a Reader in the School of English and Drama, Queen
Mary, University of London. He is the editor/co-editor of On
Ideology (1978), Making Histories. Studies in History-writing
and Politics (1982), Crises in the British State, 1880-1930
(1985), The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural
History (1996) and West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (2003).
Forthcoming volumes include: Memories of Empire (3 vols, 2006);
The Locations of George Lamming (2006); Mapping Memory (with
Susannah Radstone, 2007); and Conversations with Stuart Hall
(2007). He is on the editorial boards of History Workshop Journal,
New Formations and Visual Culture in Britain
is a former Professor of History from the University of Auckland.
He is the author of Land Reform in the Kikuyu Country (1967),
Origins of European Settlement in Kenya (1968), Maori Origins
and Migrations (1979) and Manifest Duty: The Polynesian Society
over a Hundred Years (1992). He is the editor of Na To Hoa Aroha
(From Your Dear Friend): the Correspondence between Sir Apirana
Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-1950 (3 vols, 1986-88). He was
the Associate Editor of The New Zealand Journal of History 1967-87
and co-editor from 1987-95. He was a Member of the Waitangi
Tribunal from 1986 to 2004, sat on several of the Tribunal’s
major historical inquiries and has co-authored thirteen of the
Tribunal’s reports. He is currently working on the Tribunal’s
Te Tau Ihu (Northern South Island) report and remains a senior
historical adviser to the Tribunal. Several of his more recent
essays discuss the Tribunal and its reports
is Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington.
He is the author of The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism
in Wisconsin, 1885-1900 (1972), Paths of Resistance: Tradition
and Dignity in Industrialising Missouri (1986) and Becoming
Citizens in the Age of Television: How Americans Challenged
the Media and Seized Political Initiative During the Iran-Contra
Debate (1996), co-author of The Presence of the Past: Popular
Uses of History in American Life (1998), and the editor of Memory
and American History (1990). He has been the editor of the Journal
of American History, and has been the chair of the National
Committee on History-Making in America since 1990
