Professor Amanda Nettelbeck
Professor
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
My research in colonial history addresses: race and governance in settler colonial state-building; the application of colonial law to Indigenous people, including through policing and the courts; the history and memory of Australia's frontier wars; and the ongoing legacies of colonialism in the present.
I am current Chair of the Editorial Board of Australian Historical Studies, Australia's oldest history journal; an Adjunct member of the Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and the Research Centre for the Study of Violence, both at University of Newcastle; and am completing a 5 year term on the ARC College of Experts. I am a past member of the Executive Committees for the Australian Historical Association, the Australian & New Zealand Law and History Society, and the International Association of Australian Studies.
My last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the 19th Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2019) won the 2020 Australian and New Zealand Law & History Society Legal History Prize. My current book project, Unsettled Subjects: Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship, is contracted to Cambridge University Press.
I was a member of the research teams that, in collaboration with collecting institutions from the GLAM sector, have produced recent digital public resources on 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' and 'The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History'.
I am available to supervise projects on Australian colonial history, comparative settler colonial histories, Indigenous/settler colonial relations, the relationship of Indigenous people to colonial law and policing, the history and memory of frontier violence, and cultures of historical memory and memorialisation.
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My research on Australian Indigenous/settler colonial relations, comparative settler colonialism, and the history and memory of frontier violence has produced 4 books co-authored with Rob Foster and others:
Fatal Collisions: The South Australian Frontier and the Violence of Memory (2001), shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Awards; In the Name of the Law: William Willshire and the Policing of the Australian Frontier (2007, shortlisted for the Chief Minister's NT History Book Award); Out of the Silence: South Australia's Frontier Wars in History and Memory (2012); and Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law and Resistance in Southwest Australia and Prairie Canada (2016).
My 5th and latest book, Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) explored how histories of 'protection' sat within a larger set of legally empowered policies for regulating new or newly-mobile colonised peoples. This project explores how ‘humanitarian’ policies designed to protect the civil rights of indigenous peoples in the British Empire worked within a larger field of policies to extend the authority of law, manage colonial labour needs and control mobility.
I am editor or co-editor of several volumes on the relationship between colonialism, empire and violence: A Cultural History of Violence in the Age of Empire (forthcoming Bloomsbury), Aboriginal Protection and its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies (Routledge 2020, with Sam Furphy), Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony (Palgrave, 2018, with Penny Edmonds), and Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (Palgrave 2017, with Philip Dwyer).
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2020 - ongoing Fellow Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2020 - 2022 General Assessor ARC College of Experts 2018 - ongoing Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History University College Dublin 2015 - ongoing Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities 2011 - ongoing Professor University of Adelaide 1998 - 2011 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor University of Adelaide 1995 - 1995 Visiting Lecturer University of Missouri–St. Louis 1993 - 1998 Lecturer Flinders University 1991 - 1993 Associate Lecturer University of Western Australia -
Awards and Achievements
Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount 2020 Award 2020 ANZLHS Annual Prize for Legal History Australian & NZ Law & History Society Australia - 2019 Fellowship Tom Stannage Fellowship University of Western Australia Australia - 2018 Award Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Publication Prize for outstanding contribution to law and society Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Australia - 2018 Nomination Australian Historical Studies Patricia Grimshaw Prize for significant contribution to Australian history Australian Historical Studies Australia - 2008 Distinction Shortlisted, Chief Minister's Northern Territory History Book Award for In the Name of the Law (Wakefield Press, 2007) - - - 2008 Distinction Honourable Mention, John Barrett Awards for Australian Studies, 'Practices of Violence/Myths of Creation', Journal of Australian Studies vol 32 - - - 2005 Teaching Award Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences' Award for Teaching Excellence - - - 2002 Distinction High Commendation, Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching - - - 2002 Award Winner, John Tragenza National Community History Award for Fatal Collisions (Wakefield Press, 2001) - - - 2002 Distinction Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Award for Fatal Collisions (Wakefield Press, 2001) - - - -
Research Interests
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Conference Papers
Date | Project Number | Investigators | Funding Body | Amount |
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2020 - 2023 | DP200100088 |
Jane Lydon, Amanda Nettelbeck, Melissa Miles & Fay Anderson, 'Envisioning Australian Citizenship: Australian Histories & Global Connections' |
ARC | $501,000 |
2020 - 2023 | LP190100561 |
Robert Foster, Amanda Nettelbeck, John Carty, SA Museum, History Trust SA, State Library of South Australia, State Records SA, Reconciliation SA, 'Reconciling with the Frontier' |
ARC | $353,000 |
2015 - 2018 | DP150100914 |
Lyndall Ryan, Amanda Nettelbeck, Anna Johnston, Penelope Edmonds, Victoria Haskins, PI Angela Wanhalla, 'Intimacy and Violence in Anglo Pacific Rim Settler Colonial Societies' |
ARC | $500,137 |
2015 | LE150100051 | G.Greenleaf; M.Finnane; J. Nielsen; W Swain; AWells; AGenovese; T Josev; R.Reynolds; S. Dorsett; S.Ailwood; M. Sainsbury; A.Mowbray; C Bond; A Stuhmcke ; L. Ford; M.Stuckey; L Certoma; J Williams; G Appleby; B Kercher; C Kelly; P.Handford; M. Lunney; A.Twomey; M. Adams; J.Jones;A.Nettelbeck; SPetrow; W.Prest, 'Australasian Legal History Library' | ARC | $410,000 |
2014 - 2016 | DP140103049 | Amanda Nettelbeck, 'Protection & Punishment: the Legal Reform of Indigenous People, Australia 1837-1911' | ARC | $164,130 |
2012 | LE150100051 |
A.Mowbray, G.Greenleaf, L.Ford, A. Nettelbeck, R. Grantham, A.Twomey, M.Finnane, J.Williams, A.Buck, B.Kercher, M. Adams, R.Foster, S. Petrow, C.Bond, S. Dorsett, M.Lunney, P McDermott, W.Prest, J. Jones, H.Irving, M. Otlowski, N.Peterson, 'Australasian Legal History Library' |
ARC | $330,000 |
2010 - 2012 | DP1095363 | Amanda Nettelbeck & Robert Foster, PIs Russell Smandych & Louis Knafla, 'The Rule of Law in History and Memory: Australian and Canadian Settler Frontiers' | ARC | $195,000 |
2005 - 2007 |
LP0560550 | Robert Foster, Amanda Nettelbeck, SA Museum, State Records SA, 'Frontier Conflict in History and Memory' | ARC | $210,00 |
Date | Course Title | Course Level / Code |
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2020 | Protecting the Peace | Level 3 HIST3055 |
2019 | Violence in the Modern Western World | Level 2 HIST2090 |
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2024 Co-Supervisor Remembering the Makassar in western and northwestern Arnhem Land, Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Oscar Chadwick-Pask 2024 Co-Supervisor Reconceptualising the History of Human-Saltwater Crocodile relations in Arnhem Land Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Kerri Elisabeth Meehan -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor ‘This subject will not go away’: Memorialising frontier conflict in South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Charles Milazzo 2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Indigenous Civic Literacy: A Comparative History of Education in Australia and New Zealand Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Julian Rawiri Kusabs 2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Fashion Diplomacy at the Court of Henry VIII Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Grace Waye-Harris 2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Antichrist in the Indies: Anti-Catholic Discourse and English responses to Roman Catholic Missions in the Americas and East Asia, c. 1558-1660 Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Alexander Timothy Pring 2015 - 2018 Co-Supervisor The Administration of Justice in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands: A Front Line in Tensions between Traditional Aboriginal Culture and the Criminal Law Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Peter Gilbert Whellum 2015 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: Belly of the Beast
Volume 2: The Road to Nowhere: Myths of Homeland and Expulsion in Australian Road StoriesDoctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Liz Allan 2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Volume 1: 'Irrelevant Bodies'. Volume 2: 'Violent, Antagonistic, Morally Ambiguous: Anti-Heroines and the Female Gothic' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Michelle Caroline Jager 2013 - 2015 Co-Supervisor The interplay of trauma and the sublime in four fictions by Ian McEwan Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Steven Thomas James Havis 2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor The Life and Work of George Isaacs Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Anne Elizabeth Black 2013 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Representations of Belonging in Asian Australian Writing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Wan Nur Madiha Ramlan 2013 - 2021 Co-Supervisor The Violet Hours Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Annabel Edwina Evitts 2012 - 2018 Co-Supervisor More than Just a Roof over Their Heads: Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of "New Australians" 1947-1960 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Karen Agutter 2012 - 2018 Co-Supervisor For The Sentiment: Emotions as Practice in the Development of Eighteenth-Century British Abolitionism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Stefania Chiro 2011 - 2014 Co-Supervisor The Writer as Mapmaker - Volume One: The Journeyman Years - Volume Two: Mapping a Postmodern World Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Benjamin Alexander Crisp 2011 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Self-Writing in the Age of the Internet: A Novel and Exegesis Vol 1 & Vol 2 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Connor Tomas O'Brien 2010 - 2015 Principal Supervisor The Many Lives of Douglas Mawson & Negotiating Biographical Boundaries Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Dr Emma Louise McEwin 2009 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Unintelligible: A Memoir of Unassumable Inheritance
Volume 1 Creative work
Volume 2 Exegesis After-words: Postmemory and writing perpetrationMaster of Arts Master Part Time Dr Anna Szorenyi 2007 - 2008 Co-Supervisor 'The White Distance', a Novel and Reframing the Past for the Present: Writing 'The White Distance' Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Susan Errington 2003 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Gifts from Catherine Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Kaye Cleave 2002 - 2007 Co-Supervisor Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques: Angela Carter and Decadent Iconographies of Woman Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Maggie Tonkin 2000 - 2005 Principal Supervisor A Critical Edition Of William Cawthorne's The Kangaroo Islanders Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Richard Hosking 1999 - 2004 Principal Supervisor SIGNIFICANT SHADOWS Ethics and Affect in Australian Cross-Cultural Research Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Robyn Dunlop
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2020 - ongoing Member Australian Historical Association Executive Committee University of Adelaide Australia 2018 - ongoing Vice-President Australian & New Zealand Law and History Society - Australia 2015 - 2017 Chair School of Humanities research committee University of Adelaide Australia 2015 - ongoing Member Barbara Kidman Women’s Fellowship selection committee University of Adelaide Australia 2015 - 2017 Representative Faculty of Arts Research Committee University of Adelaide Australia 2015 - ongoing Member Research Centre for the History of Violence University of Newcastle Australia 2014 - ongoing Board Member International Association of Australian Studies - Australia 2013 - 2015 Member School of Humanities Executive Committee University of Adelaide Australia 2010 - 2012 Co-Founder Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Coursework committee University of Adelaide Australia 2006 - 2012 Member Executive Dean’s Advisory Committee and Faculty Board (Faculty of Arts) University of Adelaide Australia 2006 - 2009 Co-Founder Faculty of Arts Internationalisation Committee University of Adelaide Australia -
Editorial Boards
Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country 2019 - ongoing Board Member Australian Historical Studies University of Adelaide Australia 2015 - ongoing Board Member Australian History Series Anthens Press United Kingdom 2014 - ongoing Board Member Law and History - Australia
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