Anna Elizabeth Haebich, ( ; born 18 December 1949) is an Australian writer, historian and academic.
Career
Haebich is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at
Curtin University.
She was formerly a Research Intensive Professor at
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian ...
and prior to that was the foundation Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at
Griffith University
Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian ...
. She also led the Griffith Research Program "Creative for Life" that addressed creativity across cultures and generations and was the Griffith University Orbicom UNESCO Chair.
Haebich was elected a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australia ...
(FAHA) in 2006 and of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Austr ...
(FASSA) in 2007. She has also been a member of the AIATSIS Research Advisory Committee.
Haebich is the author of a number of influential and award winning books focusing on
Indigenous history and Australia's discriminatory policies, including ''For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900 to 1940'' (1988) and ''Broken Circles Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000'' (2000). ''For Their Own Good'' won the 1989
Western Australian Premier's Literature Award for Non-Fiction and ''Broken Circles'' received a number of awards including '
NSW Premiers Book of the Year 2001 and 2001
Stanner Award
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), established as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1964, is an independent Australian Government statutory authority. It is a collecting, ...
from
AIATSIS.
Haebich was one of a group of writers involved in unraveling the
Moore River Native Settlement
The Moore River Native Settlement was the name of the now defunct Aboriginal settlement and internment camp located north of Perth and west of Mogumber in Western Australia, near the headwaters of the Moore River.
History
The settlement ...
history, and the legacy of
A.O. Neville on generations of indigenous Australians.
Susan Maushart, Rosemary van den Berg,
Jack Davis, and
Doris Pilkington.
More recent publications investigate the personal history of individuals that lived in Western Australia including ''Murdering Stepmothers The Execution of Martha Rendell'' and ''A Boy's Short Life Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson''.
The latest publication ''Dancing in the Shadows – A History of Nyungar Performance'' (2018), "explores the power of Indigenous performance pitted against the forces of settler colonialism."
Publications
* Haebich, A. (2018) Dancing in the Shadows – Histories of Nyungar Performance
UWA Publishing.
* Haebich, A. (2013) A Boy's Short Life Warren Braedon/Louis Johnson – co-authored with Steve Mickler:
UWA Publishing.
* Haebich, A. (2010) Murdering Stepmothers The Execution of Martha Rendell, Nedlands:
UWA Publishing.
* Haebich, A. (2008) Spinning the Dream Assimilation in Australia, Fremantle: Fremantle Press.
* Haebich, A. (2004) Clearing the wheat belt. Erasing the indigenous presence in the southwest of Western Australia, The Genocide Question.
* Haebich, A. (2003) Many Voices Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation. Canberra: National Library of Australia.
* Haebich, A. (2000) Broken Circles Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
* Haebich, A. (1988) For Their Own Good: Aborigines and Government in the South West of Western Australia 1900 to 1940, Nedlands: UWA Press.
References
External links
* ''Becoming Queensland'' by Anna Haebich, a 4 min 27 sec video, published by
State Library of Queensland as part of
Storylines:Q150 digital stories: available as
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transcript.
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1949 births
Living people
Australian women historians
Australian women writers
Curtin University alumni
Academic staff of Curtin University
Academic staff of Edith Cowan University
Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Academic staff of Griffith University
Historians from Western Australia
Murdoch University alumni
Academic staff of Murdoch University
People from Toowoomba
University of Western Australia alumni