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Prof Anna Haebich

PhD (Murdoch University), BA (Fine Arts, Curtin University), BA (Hons, University of Western Australia)

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    • Role:
    • John Curtin Distinguished Professor
    • Department:
    • Centre for Human Rights Education
    • Location:
    • Humanities 430, Level 4
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 7169

Anna Haebich is a multi-award winning scholar of international repute, known for her leadership in interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research. Her career combines university teaching, research, centre directorship, curatorship, visual arts practice, and work with Indigenous communities.

Anna is a Vice President of the Council of the Australian Academy of Humanities and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and member of the AIATSIS Research Advisory Committee.

 

Research Interests

  • Aboriginal history
  • Forced removal of Indigenous children 
  • Visual and performing arts 
  • Immigration and assimilation  
  • Cultural history (body, environment, crime) 
  • New ways of representing the past

 

 

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Memberships

 

  • Vice President, Council for the Australian Academy for the Humanities
  • Research Advisory Committee, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • Studies in Western Australian History Editorial Committee 
  • Griffith Review Advisory Committee

  • Centre for Human Rights Education
  • Australia-Asia-Pacific-Institute (AAPI), Curtin University
  •  Alumni, DAAD
  • Research Associate, Somatechnics Project, Macquarie University
  • Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
  • Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
  • Australian Society of Authors
  • Independent Society of Authors
  • Australian Historical Association
  • Museums Australia
  • National Association for the Visual Arts

 

 

 

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Publications

Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

  • Haebich , A. 2011. A Potent Space: Australia's Stolen Generations and the Visual Arts. In Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Australia, 1st Edition, eds Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward, 104-124. 2 Brookside Dundrum Road Dublin 14 Ireland: Irish Academic Press.
  • Cole, A, and Haebich , A. 2010. Re-markable Bodies. In A Cultural History of the Human Body In the Modern Age, 1st Edition, eds Ivan Crozier, 147-164. 1st floor , Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford UK: Berg Publishers.

Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

  • Haebich , A. 2011. Forgetting Indigenous histories: cases from Australia's Stolen Generations,. Journal of social history Societies and Culture 4(4): 1033-1046.
  • Haebich , A. 2010. Revisiting the Trial of Martha Rendell. The New Critic 1(13): 1-14.