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.
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
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.
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
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.
Scholars at war: Australasian social scientists, 1939-1945
Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter eds. (2012). Scholars at war: Australasian social scientists, 1939-1945. ANU Lives Series in Biography, Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
A cautious silence : The politics of Australian anthropology
Gray, Geoffrey (2007). A cautious silence : The politics of Australian anthropology. Canberra, ACT, Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
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.
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
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2012). Introduction. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 1-27) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
Gray, Geoffrey and Winter, Christine (2012). Part I: The Australians. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 29-34) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2012). Preface. Scholars at war: Australasian social scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. VII-VIi) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
Ronald Murray Berndt: 'Work of national importance'
Gray, Geoffrey (2012). Ronald Murray Berndt: 'Work of national importance'. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 133-148) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
W. E. H. Stanner: Wasted war years
Gray, Geoffrey (2012). W. E. H. Stanner: Wasted war years. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 95-116) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
A chance to be of some use to my country : WEH Stanner during World War II
Gray, Geoffrey (2008). A chance to be of some use to my country : WEH Stanner during World War II. An Appreciation of Difference: WEH Stanner and Aboriginal Australia. (pp. 27-43) edited by Melinda Hinkson and Jeremy Beckett. Canberra, ACT Australia: Aboriginal Studies Press.
E.W.P Chinnery : A self-made anthropologist
Gray, Geoffrey (2008). E.W.P Chinnery : A self-made anthropologist. Telling Pacific lives : Prisms of process. (pp. 227-242) edited by Brij V. Lal and Vicki Luker. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.
Walter Edmund Roth : Royal commissioner of Western Australia, 1904
Gray, Geoffrey (2008). Walter Edmund Roth : Royal commissioner of Western Australia, 1904. The Roth family, anthropology, and colonial administration. (pp. 209-219) edited by Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson. Walnut Creek, CA, United States: Left Coast Press.
Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904–1989)
Beckett, Jeremy and Gray, Geoffrey (2007). Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904–1989). Australian dictionary of biography. (pp. *-*) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
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
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
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.
Ebia Olewale: a life of service
Gray, Geoffrey (2014). Ebia Olewale: a life of service. Pacific Affairs, 82 (2), 396-398.
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
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.
“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.
'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
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
Australian Aboriginal anthropology at the crossroads: Finding a successor to A. P Elkin, 1955
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2011). Australian Aboriginal anthropology at the crossroads: Finding a successor to A. P Elkin, 1955. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 22 (3), 351-369. doi: 10.1111/j.1757-6547.2011.00148.x
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2011). Establishing anthropology and Maori language (studies), Auckland University College: The appointment of Ralph Piddington, 1949. Histories of Anthropology Annual, 7, 49-82. doi: 10.1353/haa.2011.0000
Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the coming of the sixties to Australia
Gray, Geoffrey (2010). Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the coming of the sixties to Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 121-122.
Dividing Oceania : Transnational anthropology, 1928-30
Gray, Geoffrey (2010). Dividing Oceania : Transnational anthropology, 1928-30. Histories of Anthropology Annual, 6 (1), 48-65. doi: 10.1353/haa.2010.0008
Forgetting Aborigines by Chris Healy, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Forgetting Aborigines by Chris Healy, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 38, 112-114.
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Ann Curthoys, Ann Genovese and Alex Reilly, Rights and Redemption: History, law and Indigenous People. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 133-134.
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Michael Davis, Writing Heritage: the depiction of Indigenous Heritage in European-Australian Writings. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 101-102.
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (Eds.), The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Melbourne University Press. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, 102-105.
Not allowed to stay and unable to leave : Paul Kirchhoff's quest for a safe haven, 1931-1941
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Not allowed to stay and unable to leave : Paul Kirchhoff's quest for a safe haven, 1931-1941. Histories of Anthropology Annual, 166-181.
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Suzanne Cochrane and Max Quanchi (Eds.), Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. Newcastle: Cambirdge Scholars Publishing, 2007. Journal of Pacific History, 44 (2), 227-228.
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). The last protector : The illegal removal of Aboriginal children from their parents in South Australia [Book Review]. Australian Aboriginal Studies (1), 105-106.
An interesting career to follow: Les Hiatt, 1931-2008 (Obituary)
Gray, Geoffrey (2008). An interesting career to follow: Les Hiatt, 1931-2008 (Obituary). Quadrant, 52 (6), 62-63.
Bob Reece, Daisy Bates: Grand dame of the desert, National Library of Australia, 2007
Gray, Geoffrey (2008). Bob Reece, Daisy Bates: Grand dame of the desert, National Library of Australia, 2007. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 114-115.
Gray, Geoffrey (2007). Cluttering up the department: Ronald Berndt and the dispersal of the University of Sydney ethnological collection. ReCollections (Canberra), 2 (2), 153-179.
Tim Rowse (Ed.), Contesting Assimilation, API Network, Perth, 2005
Gray, Geoffrey (2007). Tim Rowse (Ed.), Contesting Assimilation, API Network, Perth, 2005. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2, 171-172.
Stanner's war: W.E.H Stanner, the Pacific War, and its aftermath
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). Stanner's war: W.E.H Stanner, the Pacific War, and its aftermath. The Journal of Pacific History, 41 (2), 145-163. doi: 10.1080/00223340600826045
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). The "ANRC has withdrawn its offer": Paul Kirchhoff, academic freedom and the Australian academic establishment. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (3), 362-377. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00424.x
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). 'A triune anthropolgist appears'?: Gerhardt Laves, Ralph Piddington and Majorie Piddington, La Grange Bay, 1930. Australian Aboriginal Studies (1), 23-35.
Looking for Neanderthal man, finding a captive white woman : The story of a documentary film
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). Looking for Neanderthal man, finding a captive white woman : The story of a documentary film. Health and History, 8 (2), 69-90.
The army requires anthropologists: Australian anthropologists at war, 1939-1946
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). The army requires anthropologists: Australian anthropologists at war, 1939-1946. Australian Historical Studies, 37 (127), 156-180. doi: 10.1080/10314610608601209
The foundation years of Pacific History at the Australian National University
Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2012). The foundation years of Pacific History at the Australian National University. PHA 2012: Pacific History Association Conference 2012, Wellington, New Zealand, 6-8 December, 2012. Zhongzheng district, Taipei City, Taiwan: Pacific History Association.
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2011). A Break with the Past: establishing Anthropology and Maori Studies at Auckland University College, 1949. New Zealand Historical Association Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, 16-18 December 2011.
Gray, Geoffrey (2011). Convenor, Symposium. Australian National University, Canberra, 8 June 2011.
Gray, Geoffrey (2011). Good Hunting in Arnhem Land. Australian Historical Association Regional Conference, Launceston, Australia, 6 July 2011.
Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2010). Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude. Conference for Festschrift for Ron Crocombe, Cook Islands Campus, Rarotonga, 12-13 August 2010.
Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2010). Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude. Conference for Festschrift for Ron Crocombe, University of the South Pacific, Raratonga, Cook Islands, 12-13 August 2010.
Deceits, secrets and myths : The secre life of Ronald M Berdt and Catherine H Berndt
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Deceits, secrets and myths : The secre life of Ronald M Berdt and Catherine H Berndt. Australian Historical Association 2009 Regional Conference, Constructing the Past, University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia, 30 June-3 July 2009.
Tobacco as a medium of exchange on the frontier
Gray, Geoffrey (2009). Tobacco as a medium of exchange on the frontier. Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies: perspectives from anthropology, history and material culture, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 9-10 November 2009.
Gray, Geoffrey (2007). The people were eager to bring us objects for the collection : Anthropologists collecting at the frontier. Imperial Curiousities, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 27-29 June 2007.
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). "Any object collected shall be the property of the ANRC": The beginnings of national ethnographic collection and the University of Sydney. Collecting for a Nation: the History of the National Historical Collection and its Collectors, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 21 March 2006.
A native native is a wonderful, a delightful and a charming person: anthropology at the frontier
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). A native native is a wonderful, a delightful and a charming person: anthropology at the frontier. 17th Pacific History Association’s Biennial Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, 7-10 December 2006.
Government anthropologists, applied anthropology and colonial governance
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). Government anthropologists, applied anthropology and colonial governance. The Pacific in Australia - Australia in the Pacific Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 24-27 January 2006.
The invisible gaze of whiteness : The (white) anthropology of Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt
Gray, Geoffrey (2006). The invisible gaze of whiteness : The (white) anthropology of Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt. Historicizing Whiteness, University of Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 November 2006.
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