Dr Penelope Edmonds
| ARC Postdoctoral Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5974 |
| Email: | edmondsp@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 352 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
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Biography
Penny Edmonds has qualifications in history and heritage studies, including a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She teaches in the Australian, Pacific, (post)colonial and public history areas.
Penny is currently working on her forthcoming book, ‘Reimagining the Colonial Frontier: Race, Segregation and Indigenous Lives in Cities of the Nineteenth–Century Pacific Rim’, drawn from her PhD, which was awarded the Dennis Wettenhall Prize in Australian history in 2006. This close comparative study of the racialisation of settler-colonial urbanising spaces in Melbourne, Victoria and Victoria, British Columbia, 1835-1871, 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.
Penny has broad professional experience in the fields of public history and cultural heritage, and has worked in museums both nationally and internationally, including as a curator in the Indigenous Cultures Department, Museum Victoria, for the exhibition ‘Indigenous Australia Now’, Australia’s gift to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
Research
Penny’s research and teaching interests include colonial histories and postcolonialism, Australian and Pacific-region contact and transnational histories, public histories, cultural heritage, material culture and museums.
In January 2008 Penny will commence a three-year Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Historical Studies for the 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.
Publications
Books
- Forthcoming: Tracey Banivanua-Mar and Penelope Edmonds (eds.), Making Space: Settler-colonial perspectives on land, place and identity, Palgrave UK, 2009
- Penelope Edmonds and Samuel Furphy (eds), Writing Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches, Department of History, University of Melbourne and RMIT Online, 2006 (ISBN 0 9758392 6 8)
Book Chapters
- 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
- 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, Eds. Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis, Monash University Press, 2008
- Penelope Edmonds, ‘Imperial Objects, Truths and Fictions: Reading Nineteenth-Century Australian Colonial Objects as Historical Sources’, in Penelope Edmonds and Samuel Furphy (eds), Writing Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches, Department of History, University of Melbourne, and RMIT Online, 2006, 73-87
- 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
- Penelope Edmonds, ‘‘The Inconvenience and Immorality of Aborigines in the Town’: Racialised Spaces in Colonial Melbourne, 1836 – 1860’, in Sharing Spaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Responses to Story, Country and Policy, Australian Public Intellectual Network, 2006, 171-196
- Penelope Edmonds, ‘Conserving The Things We Keep’ in (ed) Carolyn Rasmussen, A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessor Institutions, Museum Victoria, 2001
Refereed Articles
- 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
- Penelope Edmonds, 'From Bedlam to Incorporation: Whiteness and the Racialisation of Settler-Colonial Urban Space in Victoria, British Columbia, 1840s – 1880s', Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production - Institutions, RMIT publishing, 2004
- Penelope Edmonds, ‘More Myths of Empire: Some Problems With Abstract Schematising’, Melbourne Historical Journal, January 2002. A paper presented at the ‘Imperial Policies, Colonial Contexts’ seminar, August 2001
Reviews and Shorter Entries
- Penelope Edmonds, entries on ‘Batman’s Hill’ and ‘Founding Myths’, for Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- Penelope Edmonds, (book 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
- Penelope Edmonds, two entries: ‘The Le Souëf Box’ and ‘The Proclamation Board’, Treasures of the Museum, Victoria, Museum Victoria, 2004, ISBN 0 957747152, 88, 89
Also entries online Museum Victoria’s Treasures website:
The Le Souëf Box
The Proclamation Board
Teaching
131-464 Secret Life of Things
131-223 Making News Making History
131-025 Empire, Race and Human Rights
Supervision
- Penelope Vassiliades (Hons) “You had to be clean. Cleanliness make you white doesn’t it?” Aboriginal Women and Forcible Domestic Service in New South Wales, late 1920s to late 1950s
- Ben Silverstein (PhD) (associate) Indirect rule in Australia
- Joanna Clyne (PhD) The Genealogy and Evolution of Museum Theatre (supervision for Sem. 2, 2007 only)
- Kirsty Close (MA) (associate) The Forcible removal of Cape Bedford peoples to Woorabinda Mission, Queensland, in WW2
- Michael Hemingway (PhD) (co-supervision with Professor Ian Anderson ) History and policy of the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
- Amanda Barry (PhD) (associate) Education of Aboriginal children in south-eastern Australia, 1900-1960