Rani Kerin

Contact Details

Room 2S12, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel 64 3 479 8604
Email rani.kerin@otago.ac.nz
Office Hours: Tuesday 1 - 2pm
Teaching: HIST 104, HIST 207, HIST 221, HIST 326

Academic Qualifications

1998: BA (Hons) Monash University
2004: PhD Australian National University

Research Interests

Rani specialises in Australian Indigenous history. Her research interests include twentieth century Aboriginal politics, humanitarianism and assimilation. She is currently writing a book about Dr Charles Duguid, a white campaigner for Aboriginal rights in Australia.

Select Publications

• 'Dogging for a living: Aborigines and Undesirables in Central Australia', Frontier, Race, Nation: Henry Reynolds & Australian History, edited by Bain Attwood, Tom Griffiths (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009) forthcoming.
• '"Mixed up in a bit of do-goodery": Judy Inglis, Activist Anthropology and Aboriginal History', History and Anthropology, 18:4 (2007), 427 - 442.
• 'Natives Allowed to Remain Naked': An Unorthodox Approach to Medical Work at Ernabella Mission', Health and History, 8:1 (2006)
• 'Sydney James Cook/Duguid and the Importance of Being Aboriginal', Aboriginal History , vol. 29 (2005), 46-63
• 'Charles Duguid and Aboriginal assimilation in Adelaide, 1950-1960: The nebulous "assimilation" goal', History Australia , vol. 2, no. 3 (2005), 85.1-85.17.
• Kerin, S. and Spaull, A., 'Vroland, Anton William Rutherford and Anna Fellowes', Australian Dictionary of Biography, edited by J. Ritchie and D. Langmore (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002), 453-455.
• An Attitude of Respect: Anna Vroland and Aboriginal Rights (Melbourne: Monash Publications in History, 1999).

Recent and Upcoming Conferences

• 'Dogging for a Living: Aborigines and 'Undesirables' in Central Australia', Race, Nation, History - a conference in honour of Professor Henry Reynolds, National Library of Australia, 29-30 August 2008
• ‘‘What good do you think you will do’: Judy Inglis and Aboriginal History’, paper presented at the Australian Historical Association Conference, University of New England, Armidale, 23-26 September 2007
• 'The ‘undesirable’ white men of northern South Australia, 1936-40', Historicising Whiteness Conference, 22-24 November 2006, University of Melbourne.
• 'Natives Allowed to Remain Naked': An Unorthodox Approach to Medical Work at Ernabella Mission', Australian Historical Association Conference, 3-7 July 2006, Canberra, Australia.

Areas of Research Supervision

Australian History; Australian Indigenous History; Biography; Comparative Australia and New Zealand topics.

Links

History and Art History and Theory Students Association

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