B Arts (Hons), PhD

Professor, School of Arts
Member, Australian Academy of the Social Sciences

Contact details for Professor Anna Haebich

Research expertise

• Australian Studies
• Indigenous history
• Visual arts history
• Public history and museums
• Socio-environmental history

Current teaching areas

• Australian Studies

Publications

• Bridging the gap: assimilation and Aboriginal women and their households, Tasmanian Historical Studies, 9.
• A long way back - reflections of a genealogical tourist, Griffith Review December.
• Clearing the wheat belt. Erasing the indigenous presence in the southwest of Western Australia, Dirk Moses (ed), The Genocide Question, Berghahn Books.
• Entries for Historical Encyclopaedia of Western Australia, Oxford Companion to Australian Politics.
• Catalogue essays for exhibitions for Indigenous artists Fiona Foley and Judy Watson, 2003, 2004.
• Concept design, research and development On the Bunya Trail, 2003. [CD Rom and web site]
• Editor, On the Bunya Trail. Special Edition of Queensland Review, December, 2003.
• 'Opinion and comment: the forgotten Australian debate', Overland, 170, 2003.
• Co-editor, Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation, National Library, 2002 .
• Broken Circles Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000.
• co-editor, Country: Land and People in Western Australia, UWA Press and WA Museum, 2001 (forthcoming).
• 'Imagining assimilation', Challenging Histories Australian Historical Studies, 118, 2002.
• "Between knowing and not knowing'. Public knowledge of the Stolen Generations', in 'Genocide'? Australian Aboriginal History in International Perspective, Aboriginal History, 25, 2001.
• 'Irresistible journeys and imaginings: Boyd's Bride Series revisited', in M Williams and R Nile (eds), Imaginary Homelands The Dubious Cartographies of Australian Identity, Journal of Australian Studies, (61), 1999.
• 'Murdering stepmothers' in Haebich, A and J Huggins (editorial advisers), Who Will Look After the Children?, Journal of Australian Studies, (59), 1998.
• For their own good: Aborigines and Government in the South West and Western Australia 1900-1940 (1988), University of Western Australia Press (2nd Edition 1992).
• 'Taking the Children Western Australia's Stolen Generation', 1998 with Andrea Williams. [video]
• 'The Stolen Generations Separation of Aboriginal Children from their Families', 1998 with Ann Delroy WA Museum.