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Dr Kristyn Harman

Lecturer, Aboriginal Studies

Cert Arts (Massey),
BA (Hons) (UTAS),
Grad Cert University Learning and Teaching (UTAS),
PhD (UTAS)

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Scocial Science
Room Reference 305
Telephone +61 3 6226 7527
Fax +61 3 6226 2575
Email Kristyn.Harman@utas.edu.au

Publications

Refereed Journals

Protecting Tasmanian Aborigines: American and Queensland Influences on the Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History [forthcoming]. 

Harman, Kristyn. 2010, 'Innovations in Co-ordinating Undergraduate Students Oral Tutorial Presentations', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Vol. 7, No. 1. 2009.

'Send in the Sydney Natives! Deploying Mainlanders Against Tasmanian Aborigines', Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 14, 2009, pp. 5-24.

'The Same Measure of Justice: Aboriginal Convicts in the Australian Penal Colonies', Australian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1. 2009.

'Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Colonial Australia, 1805 -1860s' (with Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart), Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History, forthcoming (August 2012).

Monographs

Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Māori Exiles, UNSW Press (September 2012).

Book Chapters

'The Art of Cutting Stone: Aboriginal Convict Labour in Nineteenth Century New South Wales & Van Diemen's Land, in N. Fijn, I. Keen, C. Lloyd and M. Pickering (eds.), Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies II: Historical Engagements and Current Enterprises, ANU e-Press, Canberra, 2012.

'Multiple Subjectivities: Writing Duall's Life as Social Biography' in P. Read, F. Peters-Little, and A. Haebich (eds.), Indigenous Biography and Autobiography, Monograph 17, Aboriginal History Monograph Series, ANU e-Press, Canberra, 2008.

Career Summary

Kristyn Harman has been involved in the delivery of the Aboriginal Studies program at the University of Tasmania since 2004. She enjoys a long standing commitment to the first year program, delivers several latter year units, and also lectures into the Honours program. Following the completion of her PhD thesis: Aboriginal Convicts: Race, Law, and Transportation in Colonial New South Wales, Kristyn joined Riawunna in a fulltime capacity as an Associate Lecturer. She has since completed a Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching and remains involved in various initiatives to enhance her professional practice. Kristyn's research interests are largely centred on colonial contact, and she has recently presented papers on various aspects of this phenomenon at several international conferences.

Memberships

  • Australian Historical Association
  • Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath
  • Golden Key International Honour Society

Awards and Honours

  • Teaching Merit Certificate (2010)
  • Teaching Merit Certificate (2009)
  • Teaching Merit Certificate (2007)
  • Teaching Merit Certificate (2006)

Community Engagement

Community, Place, and Heritage Research Unit:

Shadows of the Past Midlands Highway Silhouettes Interpretation Project (2008)
http://www.shadowsofthepast.net.au/

Community, Place, and Heritage Research Unit: Heritage Highway Project (2008)

Research Interests

  • Contact history in Australia and New Zealand, including Aboriginal experiences of colonial law and the convict system; Aboriginal deaths in custody in nineteenth century Australia; Aboriginal protection; women's experiences at the South Island, New Zealand, frontier; Indigenous warfare pre and post contact.

  • Indigenous biography and autobiography/life writing.

  • Indigenous experiences of, and participation in, tourism (historic and contemporary), and the associated representations of Indigenous peoples.

Research Grants

UTAS Institutional Research Grant: Stepping Bravely Ashore: Mary Ann Hodgkinson in Early Colonial New Zealand (2010)

Conference Support Scheme Grant: Centre and Periphery: New Zealand Historical Association Conference (2009)

State Library of Tasmania Research Fellowship (Archives Office of Tasmania): The Cape Barren Island Reserve Act 1912 (2008)