Dr Geoffrey Gray

Adjunct Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

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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  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Beckett, Jeremy and Gray, Geoffrey (2007). Hogbin, Herbert Ian Priestley (1904–1989). Australian dictionary of biography. (pp. *-*) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University Press.

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