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Personal History

Andrew Markus holds the Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is a past Head of Monash University's School of Historical Studies . He has published extensively in the field of Australian race relations. He is the sole author of four books and the editor or co-editor of more than ten others. His publications include; Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001); Building a New Community. Immigration and the Victorian Economy (editor, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001) and Australian Race Relations 1788 - 1993 (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994).

Current Research

Andrew is currently involved in two ARC funded projects: an attitudinal study of the Jewish communities of Australia and New Zealand and a three generational history of Yiddish Melbourne. He is also continuing his research on social cohesion in Australia, with the second Scanlon Foundation Survey released in November 2009.

Major Publications

Books
Andrew Markus, James Jupp and Peter McDonald Australia's Immigration Revolution Allen & Unwin 2009
with Bain Attwood, The 1967 Referendum, Aboriginal Studies Press Canberra, 2007, pp. iv-188

Chapters in Books
'The constitution and the power of race', The 1967 referendum. Race, power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. 1-5.
'The Federal Council for Aboriginal advancement and constitutional change', The 1967 Referendum. Race, power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. 14-26.
'The 1962-3 Petition Campaign', The 1967 Referendum. Race, power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. 27-34.
'Reconciliation and Constitutional Change', The 1967 Referendum. Race, power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. 27-34.
'Race, rights and the constitution', The 1967 Referendum. Race, power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. 76-85.
'Conceptualising social cohesion', Social Cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 21-32.
'Multiculturalism and the Jews', New under the sun: Jewish Australians on religion, politics and culture, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2006, pp. 93-107
'Anti-semitism and Australian Jewry', in Geoffrey Levey and Philip Mendes (eds), Jews and Australian Politics, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2004, pp. 109-126
'The Politics of Race', in Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage (eds), The Fuss that Never Ended, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 102-113
with Bain Attwood, 'The Fight for Aboriginal Rights', in R. Manne (ed.),The Australian Century. Political Struggle in the Building of a Nation, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 264-292. Republished 2001
'Aborigines in Labour History', in J. Hagan and A. Wells (eds),Australian Labour and Regional Change, University of Wollongong and Halstead Press, Rushcutters Bay, 1998, pp. 41-56
with Bain Attwood, 'Representation Matters: The 1967 Referendum and Citizenship', in Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians. Changing Perceptions and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 118-40
with Bowman Johnson, 'Growing up in Queensland', in Valerie Chapman and Peter Read (eds), Terrible Hard Biscuits. A Reader in Aboriginal History, Allen & Unwin and Journal of Aboriginal History, St Leonards, 1996, pp. 215-23 (reprint of article first published in Aboriginal History)
'Between Mabo and a hard place: race and the contradictions of conservatism', in B. Attwood (ed.), In the Age of Mabo. History, Aborigines and Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, pp. 88 - 99
'Chinese immigration under the "White Australia policy", in Paul Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 354-60
'Legislating White Australia', in D. Kirkby (ed.), Sex, Power and Justice. Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia. Oxford University Press, Melb., 1995, pp. 237-251
'Everybody become a job: twentieth-century immigrants', in V. Burgmann and Jenny Lee (eds), A Most Valuable Acquisition. McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Melb., 1988, pp. 87-105
'Australian governments and the concept of race: an historical perspective', in M. de Lepervanche and G. Bottomley (eds), The Cultural Construction of Race. Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture, Sydney, 1988, pp. 46-59
'Under the Act', in B. Gammage and P. Spearritt (eds), Australians 1938. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987, pp. 47-53
'Learning', Cecil Fisher talks to Andrew Markus, ibid., pp. 84-87
'Land rights, immigration and multiculturalism: the assault from the right', in Markus and Rasmussen, op. cit., pp. 21-34
'1984 or 1901? Immigration and some "lessons" of Australian history', in Markus and Ricklefs, op. cit., pp. 10-35
'After the outward appearance: scientists, administrators and politicians' in Gammage and Markus, op. cit., pp. 83-106
'History of post-war immigration', in G. Osborne and W. Mandle (eds),New History: Studying Australia Today. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1982, pp. 94-112
With J. Merritt, 'Los Primeros 1o. de Mayo en Australia', in El Primer 1o. de Mayo en el Mundo, tomo 1. CEHSMO, Mexico, 1981, pp. 6-24
'The anti-Chinese movement in eastern Australia and California 1850-1888: a comparative study', in N. Harper and E. Barry (eds), American Studies Down Under: Pacific Circle 4. ANZASA, Bundoora, 1979, pp. 134-49
'Newspapers', in D. Barwick, M. Mace and Tom Stannage (eds), Handbook for Aboriginal and Islander history. Aboriginal History, Canberra, 1979, pp. 137-41
'Talka longa mouth: Aborigines and the labour movement 1890-1970', in Curthoys and Markus, op. cit., pp. 138-57

Monographs
With Bain Attwood, Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines League, (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra , 2004)
Edited, Building a New Community: Immigration and the Victorian Economy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 225
Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 270 (Short-listed in two categories - Literary and Cultural Criticism and Community Relations - NSW Premier's Literary Awards, 2002)
Co-author and co-editor with Bain Attwood, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999, republished 2000, pp. xxi + 375.
Co-author Bain Attwood, The 1967 Referendum, or When Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997, pp. 155
Australian Race Relations 1788-1993, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994, xvi + pp. 264
Governing Savages. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp. 214
Edited, Blood From a Stone: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League. Monash Publications in History, no. 2, Melbourne, 1986, pp.105. Second edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1988, pp. 124.
Edited with M.C. Ricklefs, Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Uses of History. Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1985, pp. viii + 149 Fear and Hatred: Purifying Australia and California 1850-1901. Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1979, pp. xxi + 295
Edited with Ann Curthoys, Who Are Our Enemies? Racism and the Australian Working Class. Hale and Iremonger in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Sydney, 1978, pp. xix + 211

Recent Articles
with Jessie Taylor, 'No work, no income, no medicare - the Bridging Visa E regime', People and Place, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, pp. 43-52
'Genocide in Australia', Aboriginal History, vol. 25, 2001, pp. 57-69

Refereed Journal Article
'Attitudinal divergence in a Melbourne region of high immigrant concentration: A case study', People and Place, Monash University, Australia, 2007, pp. 38-48.

Reference Works
Entries on Giuliana Tedeschi, There is a place on earth; Avraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory; Mark Verstandig, I rest my case in Thomas Riggs, Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, St. James Press, Detroit, 2002
'Racial discrimination', in J. Jupp (ed.), The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, second ed., 2001, pp. 826-829
'Kramer, Ernest Eugene', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15: 1940-1980. Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2000, pp. 40-1
'Aboriginal resistance', 'Aliens', and 'White Australia', in G. Davison et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 11-12, 21-2, 681-3
Co-author 'Racism', and author 'Racial Discrimination Act', The Australian Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition, Australian Geographic, Terrey Hills, 1996, pp. 2534-36
'Heyes, Sir Tasman Hudson Eastwood', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14: 1940-1980. Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 1996, pp. 446-47
'Racial conflict', in S. Dawson (ed.), The Penguin Australian Encyclopaedia, Viking, Ringwood, 1990, pp. 410-11
'Racial discrimination', in J. Jupp (ed.), The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation. Angus & Robertson, 1988, pp. 929 -933
'Racism', in G. Aplin, S. Foster and M. McKernan (eds), Australians: A Historical Dictionary. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987, pp. 343-44
With Ann McGrath, 'European views of Aborigines', in D. Borchardt (ed.),Australians: A Guide to Sources. Fairfax, Syme and Weldon, Sydney, 1987, pp. 117-21, 123-25
'Morley, William', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 10: 1891-1939. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 588-89

Areas of Research & Supervision

Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought - and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.

Completed Theses
Jonathan Landes, 'History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives.' (MA 2009)
Selena Costa-Pinto, 'Narrating Contemporary Migration - Indian women in Melbourne.' (PhD 2008)
Julie Fenwick, 'Dealing with a Nation': Conceptualizing Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990. (PhD 2007)

Teaching

HSY4440 - Genocidal thought