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New issue of Isis Vol. 116, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @isisjournal.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social Focus: Is Deep History White? @pratik-hstm.bsky.social @amywayness.bsky.social @lindaaburnett.bsky.social

Isis | Vol 116, No 4

Enormous thanks to our editor Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social for bringing this incredible volume together. Check it out!!! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...
#intellectualhistory #historyofscience #deephistory

Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History | Isis: Vol 116, No 4 Abstract Deep history is at the forefront of a contemporary reorientation of Australian history. It is at once an academic methodology, a period of the ancient past, and an embodied, living history of...

articulated, and what purpose it can or should serve in 'healing' a majority non-Indigenous nation. Check out my exploration of this through the cultural representations of 'Mungo Man,' whose 'Aboriginality' and 'humanity' were often depicted in tension. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy day: my contribution to the Isis Focus issue @isisjournal.bsky.social "Is Deep History White?" has been published! My article, 'Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History,' considers the complexities of deep history in Australia: how and by whom it can be...

Is history history? - ABC listen Universities are scrambling to make up the funding shortfalls they'll face because of reduced numbers of overseas students.

Totally excellent (14 min) chat between @michellearrow.bsky.social and @nickbryantoz.bsky.social on studying history in Australia. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Simon Birmingham’s intervention in research funding is not unprecedented, but dangerous Projects submitted to the Australian Research Council are vetted heavily by panels of experts. Minister Birmingham’s decision undermines this process.

Don't let the new ARC legislation hit you on the way out, former Education Minister, Simon Birmingham.

I can't celebrate someone's "service" when all they did for higher ed and research was wreck stuff just for political point-scoring. Good riddance.

A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
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‘Renegade’ Resistance and Colonial Rule in German Samoa While German Samoa has appeared to some historians as a colony that demonstrates the benevolence of liberal colonial government, this article argues that Germany’s administration of Samoa should no...

Thanks to all the new followers! By way of introduction here are 3 more or less recent, open-access articles of mine that might give you a sense of my current research interests.
1) German colonial history and the varied responses of colonised peoples to it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hi Mike!!!! 🤠

a man says " you seem a decent fellow .. i hate to kill you " ALT: a man says " you seem a decent fellow .. i hate to kill you "

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Do you like the study of ideas within their historical contexts? Enjoy tracing the development and transformation of concepts and ideologies across time? Join @brucealexb.bsky.social and I in Australia's first Intellectual History Network to collaborate and connect!
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Pub. day for this long-gestating collection! Reframing Indigenous Biography #indigenoushistory (we really need a starter pack, who's in?) My ch: 'Reframing the Tahitian archipelago: insights from the whole lives of Tupaia, Purea, and Hitihiti', contact for PDF... www.routledge.com/Reframing-In....