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

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...

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

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: www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...

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....

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! forms.office.com/r/1jXw5D0pcr

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....