Dr Penelope Edmonds
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 903 58879
- Email:
- edmondsp@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
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Arts West, Room 321
The University of Melbourne
Victoria, 3010, AUSTRALIA
Biography
Penny Edmonds has qualifications in history and heritage studies, including a PhD (History) from the Department of History, University of Melbourne. She teaches in the Australian, Pacific, (post) colonial and public history areas.
Penny is currently an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of Historical Studies for the Linkage Project Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies, with chief investigators Professor Kate Darian-Smith and Dr Julie Evans of the University of Melbourne. The partners for this ARC Linkage Project are National Museum of Australia, Museum Victoria, and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
For more information please see the ARC Linkage project 'Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies' website.
Penny was awarded the Dennis Wettenhall Prize for best PhD in Australian History (Arts Faculty prize) University of Melbourne in 2006, a Museum Victoria Inaugural 150th Anniversary 1854 Scholarship in 2004, and the Brian Fitzpatrick Award in Australian history, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Victoria in 1998.
Penny has broad professional experience in the fields of public history and cultural heritage, and has worked in museums both nationally and internationally. She was awarded the prestigious the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Heritage Conservation the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC for three years (1991- 1994).
Penny is a Research Associate of the Indigenous Cultures Department, Museum Victoria, Melbourne. She is a member of the editorial board of the new journal Settler Colonial Studies
Research
- Colonial histories and postcolonialism
- Australian, Pacific-region and Pacific Northwest Coast contact histories
- Comparative and transnational histories
- space
- gender
- race and identity
- visual culture, public histories and museums
Penny has research interests in colonial race formation, intimacy, space and Anglophone settler colonies, particularly Australia, New Zealand and the Canadian West. Her book 'Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in
19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities' (UBC Press, 2010) is a comparative study of the racialisation of settler-colonial urbanising spaces in Melbourne, Victoria and Victoria, British Columbia, 1835-1871. This study considers race, segregation and the cofashioning of racialised bodies and spaces in settler-colonial cities, envisioning such places as key sites within a network of plural British colonial modernities of the nineteenth-century Pacific Rim.
Publications
Books
- Penelope Edmonds, Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous Peoples and Settlers in 19th-Century Pacific Rim Cities, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010)
- Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds (eds), Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity, (Basingstoke: Palgrave UK, 2010)
- Penelope Edmonds and Samuel Furphy (eds), Rethinking Colonial History: New and Alternative Approaches, (Department of History, University of Melbourne and RMIT Publishing, 2006) ISBN 0 9758392 6 8
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
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Forthcoming: Penelope Edmonds 'Failing in every endeavour to conciliate': Governor Arthur's Proclamation boards to the Aborigines, Australian Conciliation Narratives and their Transnational Connections, Journal of Australian Studies, Special issue on Visual Culture, (due 2011)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'The Proclamation Cup: Tasmanian Potter Violet Mace and Colonial Quotations', ReCollections, Journal of the National Museum of Australia (online), vol 5, no. 2, 2010.
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Forthcoming: 'Canada and Australia: On "Oceana", Transcolonial History, and an Interconnected Pacific World', in Within and Without the Nation: Canadian and Transnational Histories (working title), eds Adele Perry, Karen Dubinsky, Henry Yu, University of Toronto Press, (due 2011)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'Unpacking Settler Colonialism's Urban Strategies: Indigenous Peoples in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Transition to a Settler-Colonial City', Urban History Review, Special Issue 'Encounters, Contests, and Communities: New Histories of Race and Ethnicity in the Canadian City', Vol. 38, No. 2. Spring 2010, pp.4-20.
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Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds, 'Making Space in the Settler Colony', Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds (eds.), Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity, (Basingstoke: Palgrave UK, 2010)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'The Intimate, Urbanising Frontier: 'Native Camps', Gender Relations and Settler-Colonialism's Violent Array of Spaces Around Early Melbourne', eds. Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds, Making Settler Colonial Space: Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity, (Basingstoke: Palgrave UK, 2010)
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Penelope Edmonds, '"I followed England round the world": the Rise of Trans-imperial Anglo-Saxon Exceptionalism and the Spatial Narratives of Nineteenth-century British Settler Colonies of the Pacific Rim', Re-Orienting Whiteness, eds. Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus, (Palgrave, 2009).
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Penelope Edmonds, '"We think that this subject of the native races should be thoroughly gone into at the forthcoming Exhibition": The 1866-67 Intercolonial Exhibition', Seize the Day: Exhibitions, Australia and the World, Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis (eds), (Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2008)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'White Spaces? Racialised Geographies, Anglo Saxon Exceptionalism and the Location of Empire in Britain's Nineteenth-century Pacific Rim Colonies', Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus (eds), Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, (RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2007)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'The Le Souëf Box: Reflections on Imperial Nostalgia, Material Culture, and Exhibitionary Practice in Colonial Victoria,' Australian Historical Studies, No. 127, April, 2006, 117-139
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Penelope Edmonds, 'Dual Mandate, Double Work: Land, Labour and the Transformation of 'Native' Subjectivity in Papua 1908 – 1940', in Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, Patricia Grimshaw and Russell McGregor (eds), (RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2006)
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Penelope Edmonds, 'From Bedlam to Incorporation: Whiteness and the Racialisation of Settler-Colonial Urban Space in Victoria, British Columbia, 1840s – 1880s', in Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production - Institutions, Darian-Smith, Kate; Grimshaw, Patricia; Lindsey, Kiera; Mcintyre, Stuart (eds), (RMIT publishing, 2004), ISBN: 0864593449
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Penelope Edmonds, 'More Myths of Empire: Some problems with Abstract Schematising', a response to James Belich's 'Myths of Empire', Melbourne Historical Journal, January 2002. A paper presented at the 'Imperial Policies, Colonial Contexts' seminar, August 2001.
Reviews and Shorter Entries
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Penelope Edmonds, review 'Shaking Hands on the Fringe' by Tiffany Shellam, Labour History, (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History), May 2010.
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Penelope Edmonds, review 'The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections', eds. Nicholas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby, (Melbourne University Press: 2008), Australian Historical studies, 2010.
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Forthcoming: Penelope Edmonds, review of Margaret Jacobs' 'White Mother to a Dark Race', Pacific Historical Review, Nov. 2010
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Penelope Edmonds, 'Australia's Missing Treaty', review of Bain Attwood's 'Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History', MUP, 2009, The Age, September 26, 2009.
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Penelope Edmonds, entries on 'Batman's Hill' and 'Founding Myths', for Andrew May and Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- Penelope Edmonds, review 'Land of Promise: Robert Burnaby's Letters from Colonial British Columbia 1858-1863', Anne Burnaby McLeod and Pixie McGeachie (eds), City of Burnaby, 2002 in British Columbian Studies Journal, Winter, 2004
Supervision
- Michael Hemingway (PhD) (co-supervision with Professor Ian Anderson) "History and Policy of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service", 2008-ongoing.
- Leanne Howard (PhD)(associate) "Community Involvement in Managing Cultural Landscapes", 2010 - ongoing
- Rebecca Saunders (PhD)(associate) "A Cultural History of Churchill Island, Victoria" 2010 - ongoing
- Esther McGill, (MA) (associate) "From Idol to Artform: Missionaries and Material Culture in the Pacific", 2010 - ongoing
- Bronwyn Ratcliffe (Hons) "Australian Museums, Indigenous Peoples and the Representation of Massacre History", 2011
Completions
- Clare Chandler (Hons), 'The Bronx Pygmy: Ota Benga, Empires and Interconnected worlds, (2010)
- Amanda Barry (PhD)(associate) 'Broken Promises: Aboriginal Education in South-eastern Australia, 1837-1937',(2008)
- Kirsty Close (MA) (associate) 'Labourers Unseen: Cape Bedford Mission and the Paradox of Aboriginal Labourers in World War Two', (2008)
- Penelope Vassiliades (Hons) ''Perfectly Clean': Domestic Training and Apprenticeship in the Attempted Destruction of Aboriginality, New South Wales 1910s to 1950s', (2006)