A/Prof. Victoria Haskins

Biography

Associate Professor Haskins holds an ARC Future Fellowship (2009-2014), to undertake research into the history of state intervention in Indigenous women's labour and employment in Australia and the United States, between 1880 and 1945. Her key research interests are in gender and cross-cultural relationships in history, and she has published widely in the area of Australian histories of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships. Her work focuses on cross-cultural relationships in the period of modern colonialism and post-colonialism, and utilizes comparative and transnational approaches to history, drawing upon a range of traditional and unorthodox sources and methods.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Sydney, 1999
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Sydney, 1991

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Research

Research keywords

• Aboriginal history
• Australian history
• Colonialism
• Cross-cultural history
• Dance history
• Gender history
• Indigenous history (US, Asia)
• Women's history

Research expertise

As a cultural and social historian, my main field of research interest is the history of cross-cultural relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, incorporating class and gender analyses into my examination of race and colonialism. Methodologically, I am interested in personal narratives, visual and material culture, and the interactions between popular culture and everyday experience, as well as traditional archival research. I focus particularly on Australian histories and the engagement of white Australian women with Aboriginal people and issues. I am highly committed to collaborative research with Indigenous historians, as I believe that shared histories require shared perspectives and research initiatives. I have held a number of research grants including a current ARC and have published widely in my field.

Collaboration

A member of the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Wellbeing and an associate member of the Umulliko Indigenous Research Institute, Assoc. Prof. Haskins has held Visiting Fellowships with Harvard University and Monash University. She is committed to the principle of collaborative engagement and research with Indigenous communities, colleagues and advisory bodies, and is currently working on a collaborative research project on Indigenous employers with Professor Lynette Russell at Monash University. She is also part of a collaborative ARC research project (2011-2013) with colleagues from the University of Wollongong, on transcolonial cultures of domestic service.

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
210300	Historical Studies	75
219900	Other History And Archaeology	15
169900	Other Studies In Human Society	10

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Research Institute of Social Inclusion & Wellbeing

Memberships

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Member - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Editorial Board.

• Member - Australian Feminist Studies

Appointments

Visiting Fellow Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University (Australia)	01/09/2009 - 01/11/2009
Fellowship Australian Research Council (Australia)	01/01/2010
Visiting Scholar Harvard University, History Department (United States)	01/06/2005 - 01/09/2005

Awards

Publication Award.

2006	Unions NSW & ASSLH Best Article in Labour History 2005/06 Unions NSW & the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (Australia) Research article prize
2002	Mary Bennett Prize for Best Article on Women's History Australian Network for Research in Women's History (Australia) Research article prize

Recognition.

2011	ARC IntReader Australian Research Council (Australia) International Reader
1990	University Medal University of Sydney (Australia) University Medal, University of Sydney

Research Award.

2010	ARC Discovery Australian Research Council (Australia) Houseboys: A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific (with Julia Martinez, Claire Lowrie, and Frances Steel)
2009	ARC Future Fellowship Australian Research Council (Australia) In Her Place: state intervention and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and the United States, 1880-1945
2006	Council of State Libraries Fellowship Mitchell Library (Australia) Dancing in the Dust: white women and Aboriginal cultural appropriation
2006	ARC Discovery Australian Research Council (Australia) Domestic Subversions: maternalism and cross-cultural histories

Invitations

Shared Histories, Shared Futures? Representing Interracial Histories in the Museum Museums Australia, Australia (Keynote Address)	2002
Book Launch, Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches RMIT/History Dept, University of Melbourne, Australia (Book Launch address)	2006
Invited Opening Plenary Chair, Historicizing Whiteness Conference University of Melbourne, Australia (Conference Presentation - non published.)	2006
No Place for a Lady? Reflections on the curious absence of women from the History Wars The Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University, Australia (Keynote Address)	2003

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Aboriginal history
• Australian history
• Museum studies
• Women's history

Teaching expertise

I teach Australian social, cultural and political history, with a particular focus on cross-cultural histories (between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people) and women's histories. With background professional experience as a history curator, I have also taught and supervised students in museum studies.