Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Peta Stephenson


Professional Address

Asia Institute
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia

Tel: +61 3 8344 5989
Fax: +61 3 9349 4870
Email: p.stephenson@unimelb.edu.au

Degrees, Qualifications

2003 Doctor of Philosophy, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia (1999-2003).
1998 Master of Arts, Department of English, University of Queensland, Australia (1996-1998)
1994 Honours, Women’s Studies, Department of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia (1992-1994)
1991 Bachelor of International Business Relations, Griffith University, Australia (1989-1991)

Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held

2007-2010 ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Institute
2006 University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellow
2004-2005 Australian Centre Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Melbourne)
2005 Co-convenor of undergraduate subject 'Australia Now', The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.
2003 Editor/researcher for the Australia-Japan Foundation's electronic bulletin 'AUS-e-Study'.
2002 Tutor of 'Australia Now'.
2001 Tutor of 'Australia Now'.
2000 Tutor of 'Women, Culture, Race', Department of English, University of Queensland.
1999 Tutor of 'Contemporary Australia', The Australian Studies Centre, Department of English, University of Queensland.
1998 Lecturer in English Language, Aichi-Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan

Major Honours, Grants, Awards and Prizes

2008 Community Relations Commission Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards (shortlist) for The Outsiders Within
2008 Gleebooks Prize, NSW Premier's Literary Awards (shortlist) for The Outsiders Within
2008 Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock Prize (shortlist) for The Outsiders Within
2007 Australian Research Council, Postdoctoral Fellowship
2006 University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004 Australian Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Melbourne)
2002 Postgraduate Editing Internship for the Journal of Australian Studies.
2001 Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship (University of Melbourne)
2001 Travel for Research in Postgraduate Study Scholarship (University of Melbourne)
1999 Australian Postgraduate Award
1996 University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship

Principal Publications

Book
2007 The Outsiders Within: Telling Australia's Indigenous-Asian Story, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Edited Journal
2003 (with Kelly McWilliam and Graham Thompson), Voicing Dissent: New Talents 21C, special edition of the Journal of Australian Studies, no. 76.

Book Chapters
2009 'Recreating Community: Indigenous Women and Islam' in Tanja Dreher and Christina Ho (eds) Beyond the Hijab Debates: New conversations on gender, race and religion, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 67-80.
2007 'Altered States: Indigenous Australian and Chinese Diasporic Alliances' in Mette Thunø (ed) Beyond Chinatown: New Chinese Migration and the Global Expansion of China, Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, pp. 254-74.
2005 'Aboriginal Muslims: The Practice and Politics of Hybrid Identities in a Globalising World', in Russell West-Pavlov (ed) Who’s Australia?-Whose Australia?: Contemporary Politics, Society and Culture in Australia, Trier, Germany: WVT, pp. 83-98.
2005 'Beyond Colonial Casualties: Chinese Agency in the Australian (Post)Colonial Endeavour', in Charles Ferrall and Paul Millar (eds.), The Antipodean Imagination of China, Wellington, NZ: Victoria University of Wellington, pp. 366-88.
2005 '"Where are you from"?: New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing', in Kam Louie and Tseen Khoo (eds.), Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Writing in English, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 107-28.
2004 'Teaching "Whiteness"', in David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby (eds), Thinking Australian Studies: Teaching Across Cultures, St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp. 275-283.
2003 'Cross-Cultural Alliances: Exploring Aboriginal/Asian Literary and Cultural Production', in Penny Edwards and Shen Yuan-Fang (eds), Lost in the Whitewash: Aboriginal-Chinese Encounters from Federation to Reconciliation, Canberra: Humanities Research Centre, ANU, pp. 143-161.

Journal Articles
2009 (forthcoming) 'Typologies of Security: Indigenous and Muslim Australians in the Post-9/11 Imaginary', Journal of Australian Studies
2009 (forthcoming) 'Keeping it in the family: Partnerships between Indigenous and Muslim Communities in Australia', Aboriginal History.
2008 'Andrish Saint-Clare and the Trepang Project: the 'Creative Intermediary' in an Indigenous-Asian theatrical production', Journal of Australian Studies 32.2: 163-178.
2004 'Islam in Indigenous Australia: Historic Relic or Contemporary Reality?', Politics and Culture 2004.4. (http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/arts.cfm?id=55)
2003 'New Cultural Scripts: Exploring the Dialogue between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians', Journal of Australian Studies no. 77: 57-68.
2003 'Aus-e-Study Bulletin', Crossings 8.2. (http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings/8_2/index.php?apply=peta)
2002 '"Where are you from?": Aborigines, 'Asians' and the Australian National Imaginary, 1901-2001', Traffic no. 1: 85-101.
2001 'Finding Common Ground: Indigenous and Asian Diasporic Cultural Production in Australia', Hecate vol. 27, no. 2: 59-67.
2001 'Sorry Business – Moving Beyond Black and White', M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture vol. 4, no. 1. Available at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0102/moving.php
1997 "Race', 'Whiteness' and the Australian Context’, Mots Pluriels 1. 2. (http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP297ps.html)

Book Reviews
2008 Book review of Martin Nakata's Disciplining the Savages: Savaging the Disciplines (2007), Australian Historical Studies, 39.1 (2008): 122-23.
2008 Book review of Philip W. Sutton and Stephen Vertigans' Resurgent Islam: A Sociological Approach (2005), Australian Journal of Political Science 43.4 (2008): 761-62.
2006 'Sunny Side Up: Australia's top-down history', review of Regina Ganter's Mixed Relations: Asian Aboriginal Contact in North Australia (2006), Australian Women's Book Review, 18.1 (2006). (http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awbr/issues/141/mixedrelations.html)
2006 'Some Australian Others', review of Phil Sparrow's From Under a Leaky Roof (2005), Politics and Culture, 3 (2006). (http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=522)
2003 Book review of Henry Reynolds' North of Capricorn: The Untold Story of Australia's North (2003), Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2004.2.
2003 'The Unimaginable Australian', review of Ghassan Hage's Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society (2003), Australian Women’s Book Review. 15.2 (2003). (http://emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/awbr/issues/136/stephenson.html)
2002 Book review of Julie Carr's The Captive White Woman of Gipps Land: In Pursuit of the Legend (2001), Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Vol 1 (2002): 84-86.
2000 Book review of Alison Broinowski's The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia (1996), Australian Studies 15.2 (2000): 178-180.

Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
2009 'Black Australia's Pilgrimage to Islam', The Australian Association for the Study of Religions Conference, University of Melbourne, 29 November-1 December.
2009 'Ties that bind: Recollections from Indigenous-Malay descendants', Asian-Australian Identities III Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 13-14 November.
2009 'Beyond Opposition: Islam in Indigenous Australia', Does Discrimination Shape Identity? Politics in the English-speaking Countries and in France: Rhetoric and Reality, University Paris XIII, France, 26-27 March.
2008 'Terror Australis: Indigenous Muslims in the post-9/11 Australian Imaginary', International Australian Studies Association Conference, QUT, Brisbane, 26-28 November.
2008 'Engaging Communities: The Role of Creative Australian Muslim Youth in Intra- and Inter-Cultural Change', National Centre of Excellence in Islamic Studies Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 19-20 November.
2008 'Homegrown Islam: Changing Attitudes in Contemporary Australia', British Australian Studies Association Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK, 2-5 September.
2008 'Reaffirming Aboriginality through Allah: Indigenous Muslims in Australia', Challenges and Opportunities for Islam and the West—The Case of Australia, Brisbane, 3-5 March.
2007 '"Becoming their story": The Creative Intermediary in Indigenous-Asian Cultural Production', Asian-Australian Identities II Conference, Melbourne, 28-30 June.
2007 'Reaffirming Aboriginality through Allah: Indigenous Muslims in Australia' (ten minute plenary panel presentation), European Association for the Study of Australia Conference, Roskilde and Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September.
2006 'Recreating Community: Indigenous Women and Islam', Not another hijab row: New Conversations on Gender, Race, Religion and the Making of Communities Conference, University of Technology Sydney, 10-11 December.
2006 'Islam Dreaming: Australia's Aboriginal Muslims', Australian Studies Centre Seminar Series, University of Queensland, 2 November.
2006 'Indigenous Muslims in Australia', English Department Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, 18 October.
2004 'Indigenous and Muslim-Australians: Hybrid Identities and Political Partnerships', The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia Conference, University of Queensland, 24-26 November.
2004 'Islam Dreaming: Indigenous and Muslim Australian Alliances', Dialogues Across Cultures: Identity, Place, Culture Conference, 12-14 November, Melbourne.
2004 'Indigenous Australian and Chinese Diasporic Alliances: New Transnational Networks of Meeting', New Perspectives on Australia and China: Globalization and Multiculturalism Conference, 9-11 October, Beijing.
2004 'Islam Dreaming: Cultural and Political Partnerships between Indigenous and Muslim-Australians', Australian Centre Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, 4 August.
2004 'Aboriginal Muslims: The Practice and Politics of Hybrid Identities in a Globalising World', Australian Studies Lecture Series, Free University, Berlin, 24 May.
2004 'Altered States: Indigenous Australian and Chinese Diasporic Alliances', International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas Conference, 10-14 May, Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark.
2003 'Beyond Black and White: Aborigines, Asian-Australians and the National Imaginary', Placing Race and Localising Whiteness Symposium, 1-3 October, Flinders University, Adelaide.
2003 'Australian Studies and international students panel discussion' and 'AUS e-Study', Teaching Across Cultures: Australian Studies in an International Context, 23 August, University of Queensland.
2002 '"Out of Sight, Out of Mind": Denying Indigenous/Asian Cross-Cultural Unions', Liveable Communities Conference, 6-7 November, Curtin University of Technology, Perth.
2002 '"New Cultural Scripts": Cross-Cultural Engagements between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians', Australian Centre Seminar, 21 August, University of Melbourne.
2002 'Inter/Acting Others: Cross-Cultural Exchanges Between Indigenous and 'Asian' Australians', Australian Historical Association Conference, 3-7 July, Brisbane.
2001 'Common Concerns?: The Indigenous and the Diasporic in Australian Imaginings of the Nation', European Australian Studies Association Conference, 25-28 September, Lecce, Italy.
2001 'Finding Common Ground: Indigenous and Diasporic Writing in Australia', Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference, 5-8 July 2001, Trades Hall, Melbourne.
2001 'In the Shadow of "White Australia": Race, Nation and the Centenary of Federation', Nation and Narration Conference, 23-25 June, University of Queensland.
2000 '"Two Wongs Don’t Make a White": Changing Notions of Race and Ethnicity in Australian Nationalism', Asian Studies Association of Australia Conference, 3-5 July, University of Melbourne.
1999 'Race and Ethnicity in Australian Nationalism', Department of Asian Languages and Studies Seminar Series, 5 November, University of Queensland.
1999 'The Triangulation of Whiteness, Ethnicity and Aboriginality in Australian Multiculturalism', Re-Imagining Multiculturalism Conference, 1-3 October, Monash University.
1999 'Where are you from?: Race Theory and the Rhetoric of Australian Multiculturalism', Asian-Australian Identities: The Asian Diaspora in Australia Conference, 27-29 September, Australian National University.
1999 'Race and the Rhetoric of Australian Multiculturalism', WIP (Work-In-Progress) Conference, 14-15 August, University of Queensland.
1999 'Asian Perceptions of Whiteness', Asians in Australian History Workshop, 18-19 June, Griffith University, Brisbane.
1998 'Race and White Privilege in the Classroom', Constructing Knowledges: Researching 'Race' Workshop, 23 January, Flinders University.
1997 'The Social Construction of "Whiteness": Feminism and White Privilege in the Classroom', Feminism in Transit Conference, 25-26 July, Macquarie University.
1996 'The Social Construction of "Whiteness": Anti-Racism and Feminism' Australian Women's Studies Association Conference, 27-29 November, University of Western Australia.
1996 'The Social Construction of "Whiteness": Aboriginality and Anti-Racism', Research Seminar Series, English Department, University of Queensland, 25 October.
1994 'Aboriginal Women and Australian Feminism', Research Seminar Series, Asian Languages and Studies Department, 28 July, University of Queensland.
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