Annemarie McLaren

• Australian History
• Imperial History
• Indigenous Studies
• Historiography

• Empire and imperialism
• Aboriginal and cross-cultural history
• Australian history, especially New South Wales
• Exploration history and colonial knowledge
• Indigeneity, public history and heritage

I am very happy to speak to prospective HDR students in the following areas:

• Imperial history (especially the British Empire and the Oceanic world)
• Cross-cultural history
• Australian history
• Indigeneity, public history and heritage

I have supervised the following:

• Bethany Lilleyman, 'In the Heart of Leviathan: A Hobbesian Reading of Conrad's Heart of Darkness' (current)
• Stevie Cole, 'The Art of Fiction: Fact myth and new knowledge of the North Australian Expedition' (2021)

At present I am working on a monograph titled 'When the Strangers Came to Stay: Aboriginal-Colonial Exchange, 1800-1835'. This book developed out of my doctoral thesis, awarded by ANU in 2018.

With Shino Konishi (University of Western Australia), “Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Woman in Early New South Wales” in Samraghni Bonnerjee (ds), Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies: Subaltern Women’s Narratives, Routledge, 2021

• "No Fish, No House, No Melons: the Earliest Aboriginal Guides in Colonial New South Wales, Aboriginal History, vol. 43, 2020: 33-55, doi.org/10.22459/AH.43.2019.02
• With Bruce Buchan (Griffith University), "Trading Places: Alexander Berry's Navigation of Humanity as Physician, Merchant, Landowner and Natural Historian", Intellectual History Review, 2020, doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2020.1766807
• With Alison Clark (Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge): "Captain Cook Upon Changing Seas:  Indigenous Voices and Reimagining at the British Museum", 2020, Journal of Pacific History, 2019 DOI: 10.1080/00223344.2019.1663390
• "A Many-Sided Frontier: History and 'Shades of Grey' in Sweet Country", Australian Historical Studies, 50, (2019), DOI 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1593468
• "Reading the life of Goggey, an Aboriginal Man on the Fringes of Early Colonial Sydney,” Ethnohistory vol. 65, no. 3 (2018): 489-515.

• Workshop: ‘Knowledge Frontiers Forum: the Future’: The British Academy of the Humanity, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the Royal Society te Aparangi, 11-12 November, 2019 QUT, Brisbane
• “This was, they said, what the white man believed, but it was not for the black man’: Human Difference in the Writings of Brisbane’s German Missionaries, 1838-38”, Workshop: ‘Humanity on the Move: Race, Landscape and Mobility in the Ear of Enlightenment and Colonisation, 2-3 November 2019,  Griffith University
• “Trading Places: Alexander Berry's Navigation of Humanity as Physician, Merchant, Landowner and Natural Historian”, Paper with Bruce Buchan* (Griffith University) for ‘Enlightenment Identities’: International Congress on the Enlightenment (*Bruce delivered on my behalf), July, 2019, University of Edinburgh
• “Negotiating Education: The First School for Aboriginal Children and the Diplomatic World of Colonial New South Wales, 1814-1822”, Seminar paper for the Wolfson College Education Society, 23 February, 2019, University of Cambridge
• “History, Imagination, and ‘Shades of Grey’ in Sweet Country”, Keynote for a panel on Sweet Country
  “The Scale of History”: Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2018, Australian National University
• “‘No Melons Here’: Early Aboriginal Guides, the Guided, and the Politics of Encounter”, ‘Entangled Histories’: Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2017, University of Newcastle
• “Blackfellas and Whitefellas? Exploring Indigeneity at the Governor’s Native Feast near Sydney, 1816-1834”, “Indigeneities – Territories, Spaces and Conceptual Mappings”: Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture Conference, November, 2016 Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
• “The Politics of the Feast”, Colonial and Post-Colonial New Researcher’s Workshop, November 2016, Institute of Historical Research, London
• “IGHERT: Indigeneity in an Expanded Field”, “Area Studies in a Globalizing World: Past, Present and Future”, panellist at the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, July 2016, University of London
• “Dynamism and Dialogue: Re-Imagining Cross-Cultural Relations in Australia’s Colonial History”, “Landbody – Indigeneity’s Radical Commitments Conference”, May, 2016, Centre for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
• “Baubles and Beads? Re-thinking Brass Plates, Blankets, and Clothing Amongst Aboriginal People in Early Colonial Sydney and its Hinterland”, Seminar Series, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies April, 2016 Kings College London
• “‘Feasting, Gifting, Cheering and ‘Indiscriminate Shrindy’: Aboriginal-Colonial Relations at the Governor’s Annual Native Assembly near Sydney, 1816–1834” Social History Society Conference March, 2016, University of Lancaster
• “Contemplating the life of Goggey, an Aboriginal man on Colonial Sydney’s Western Fringes” Annual History Colloquium November, 2015, Northern Territory Library, Darwin

• Aboriginal History Inc, Board Member
• Aboriginal History (journal), Review Editor
• Australian Historical Association, General Member
• History Council of Western Australia, Board Member

• Australian Dictionary of Biography’s WA Working Group
• Mentor for Postgraduate with the Australian Historical Association, Jan 2021 – December 2021
• Postgraduate Representative, Australian Historical Association, 2016 – 2018

• Allan Martin Award, Australian Historical Association, 2021
• 2020 Serle Award for Best Post-Graduate Thesis in Australian History (national)
• 2017 Hakluyt Society Essay Prize (international)