Overview
Background
Professor Gray is an Affiliate Fellow in Warwick Anderson’s Laureate, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South at the University of Sydney; Adjunct Lecturer in the Strategic Centre for Defence Studies, School of Internal, Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University, and Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Grant, Serving our Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Defence of Australia, Australian National University. Between 1996 and 2013 he was Senior Research Fellow, History, at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Studies. He has published widely on a range of topics, including whiteness studies, race and citizenship, the cattle industry in he Northern Territory, history of anthropology, biography and colonial rule and practice in Papua and New Guinea.
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Works
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2024
Journal Article
‘Life Will Be Very Different after the War’: Administrative, Political and Academic Tensions in the Development of Papua New Guinea after the Second World War
Gray, Geoffrey (2024). ‘Life Will Be Very Different after the War’: Administrative, Political and Academic Tensions in the Development of Papua New Guinea after the Second World War. Oceania, 94 (2), 73-87. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5406
2023
Book
Chicanery: Senior academic appointments in antipodean anthropology, 1920-1960
Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2023). Chicanery: Senior academic appointments in antipodean anthropology, 1920-1960. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books. doi: 10.3167/9781800739703
2022
Journal Article
‘He has not been playing the game with us’: Paul Kirchhoff in imperial Britain
Gray, Geoffrey and Winter, Christine (2022). ‘He has not been playing the game with us’: Paul Kirchhoff in imperial Britain. History and Anthropology, 35 (3), 525-544. doi: 10.1080/02757206.2022.2119230
2020
Journal Article
‘In my file, I am two different people’: Max Gluckman and A.L. Epstein, the Australian National University, and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 1958–60
Gray, Geoffrey (2020). ‘In my file, I am two different people’: Max Gluckman and A.L. Epstein, the Australian National University, and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 1958–60. Cold War History, 20 (1), 59-76. doi: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1575367
2019
Book Chapter
'Aboriginal people served Australia well' auxiliary indigenous labour in Northern Australia, 1939-1945
Gray, Geoffrey (2019). 'Aboriginal people served Australia well' auxiliary indigenous labour in Northern Australia, 1939-1945. World War II re-explored: some new millenium studies in the history of the global conflict. (pp. 41-59) edited by Jaroslaw Suchoples and Stephanie James. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang AG.
2018
Journal Article
‘Anthropology and sociology were of no value … in war time’: Ronald and Catherine Berndt and war-time security, 1939–1945
Gray, Geoffrey (2018). ‘Anthropology and sociology were of no value … in war time’: Ronald and Catherine Berndt and war-time security, 1939–1945. Anthropological Forum, 29 (2), 116-133. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2018.1537909
2017
Book Chapter
Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age
Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2017). Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age. Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians. (pp. 39-63) edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/CL.10.2017.03
2016
Book Chapter
Scientific diplomacy and the establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914–25
Gray, Geoffrey (2016). Scientific diplomacy and the establishment of an Australian Chair of Anthropology, 1914–25. Local knowledge, global stage. (pp. 121-148) edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach. Lincoln, NE, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
2015
Journal Article
‘A great deal of mischief can be done’: Peter Worsley, the Australian National University, the Cold War and academic freedom, 1952-1954
Gray, Geoffrey (2015). ‘A great deal of mischief can be done’: Peter Worsley, the Australian National University, the Cold War and academic freedom, 1952-1954. Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 101 (1), 25-44.
2015
Book
Abrogating responsibility? Anthropology, Vesteys and the future of Aboriginal people
Gray, Geoffrey (2015). Abrogating responsibility? Anthropology, Vesteys and the future of Aboriginal people. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
2014
Journal Article
Ebia Olewale: a life of service
Gray, Geoffrey (2014). Ebia Olewale: a life of service. Pacific Affairs, 82 (2), 396-398.
2014
Journal Article
Editors’ introduction: telling academic lives
Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2014). Editors’ introduction: telling academic lives. Journal of Historical Biography, 16 (Autumn 2014), 1-32.
2014
Edited Outputs
Journal of Historical Biography
Journal of Historical Biography. (2014). 16
2014
Book Chapter
“The Department Was in Some Disarray”: The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2014). “The Department Was in Some Disarray”: The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders. (pp. 141-172) edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach. Lincoln, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
2014
Journal Article
“He has not followed the usual sequence”: Ronald M. Berndt’s Secrets
Gray, Geoffrey (2014). “He has not followed the usual sequence”: Ronald M. Berndt’s Secrets. Journal of Historical Biography, 16 (Autumn 2014), 61-92.
2014
Journal Article
'We Know the Aborigines are Dying Out': Aboriginal people and the quest to ensure their survival, Wave Hill Station, 1944
Gray, Geoffrey (2014). 'We Know the Aborigines are Dying Out': Aboriginal people and the quest to ensure their survival, Wave Hill Station, 1944. Health and History, 16 (1), 1-24. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.16.1.0001
2013
Book Chapter
Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude
Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2013). Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude. Ron Crocombe: E Toa! Pacific writings to celebrate his life and work. (pp. 485-503) edited by Linda Crowl, Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe and Roderick Dixon. Suva, Fiji: USP Press.
2013
Journal Article
'We haven't abandoned the project': the founding of the Journal of Pacific History
Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2013). 'We haven't abandoned the project': the founding of the Journal of Pacific History. Journal of Pacific History, 48 (1), 63-77. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2012.733500
2012
Journal Article
‘Leach would be first rate – if you could get him’: Edmund Leach and the Australian National University, 1956
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2012). ‘Leach would be first rate – if you could get him’: Edmund Leach and the Australian National University, 1956. History Compass, 10 (11), 802-811. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12003
2012
Book Chapter
H. Ian Hogbin: 'Official advisor on native affairs'
Gray, Geoffrey (2012). H. Ian Hogbin: 'Official advisor on native affairs'. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 73-94) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
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