Associate Professor Catriona Elder
Associate Professor in Sociology
Visiting Professor in Australian Studies University of Tokyo, 2013-14.
A26 - R.C. Mills Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 3080 |
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Research interests
Dr Elder's areas of research expertise are in 20th- 21st century Australian cultural identity, especially relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia. In particular she has intensively explored some of the ways in which non-Indigenous peoples think about belonging and has analysed both the pleasure and anxiety that inform narratives of national belonging. Specific projects have focused on assimilation in popular fiction; whiteness and government immigration and Indigenous policy in the 1950s and 1960s. This work has drawn on and contributed to the development of Critical Whiteness Studies and Settler Colonial Studies in Australia.
One current research project focuses on race, identity and the Australian historical television mini series (1970-2005). Dr Elder is exploring representations of belonging that are produced through television dramas about colonial history. Other areas of research include (post)reconciliation, nationalism and sexuality, and women and non-professional work in the 1950s-1960s.
Teaching and supervision
Current Teaching:
- SCLG6816 Indigenous Rights: Global Issues
Doctoral Supervisions:
Current:
Mai-Maree Hansford (PhD) ?Captivate, Activate: How stories engage people and help form activist publics?
Olga Oleinikova (PhD) ?Ukrainian Post-independence Migrants in Australia?
Roberta Quinn (PhD) - Family Law and Shared Parenting
Lyndel Spence (PhD) ? Durkheim, Religion and Identity
Harriet Westacott (PhD) - Skilled Migrants and Friendship Networks
Leah Veasey-Williams (PhD) - Migrant Mothers and Social Media
Completed:
Kylie McKenna (PhD) Interdependent Engagement: Corporate Social
Responsibility in Bougainville and Papua. (enrolled: ANU).
Taweesak Sangkapreecha (PhD) Tertiary students and Online Searching Strategies
Pataraporn Jaruhirunsakul (Professional Doctorate) - Online Relationships in Thailand
Eun Suk Sa - (Professional Doctorate) Independence in the Contemporary Korean Print Media
Glenda Bonifacio,(PhD) 2003 Filipino Women and Their Citizenship in Australia: in Search of Political Space. University of Wollongong.
Angela Pratt, (PhD) 2003 Indigenous Sovereignty Never Ceded: Sovereignty, Nationhood and Whiteness in Australia. University of Wollongong.
Rosemary Montgomery, (PhD) 2004 Australian Girl Readers, Femininities and Feminism in the Second World War (1939-45): a Study of Subjectivity and Agency. University of Wollongong.
Erin Cahill, (PhD) 2005 Outlaws and their Mortgages: An Analysis of the Property (Relationships) Act 1984 (NSW) University of Wollongong. With Dr Fiona Borthwick.
Barbara Bicego (co supervisor) (PhD) - Australian Women's Experiences in Bali.
Lyn Dickens (PhD) ?On Being Mixed Race: Eurasian Identity, Race and Gender in Australia and Southeast Asia?
Olga Oleinikova (PhD) ?Ukrainian Post-independence Migrants in Australia?Harriet Westacott (PhD) - Skilled Migrants and Friendship Networks
Current research students
Project title | Research student |
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Indigenous Youth in Australia and Canada: A Modern Narrative of Settler/Colonial Relationships through Indigenous Rap Music | Jonathon POTSKIN |
Self-identity and intergenerational transmission of culture within the Italian diaspora: a longitudinal study across three countries. | Lina RAPONE |
Australian Citizenship: Identity Crisis of Women from the Indian Subcontinent | Ume Rubab SHEIKH |
Current projects
- With Penelope Taylor, Maggie Walters, Daphne Habibis, and Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation. Telling it like it is: Aboriginal perspectives on Aborigines, Euro-Australians and race relations, ARC Linkage Project 2013-2016.
Invited Addresses
- Elder C, (2010) ?Memory and the Uses of the Past in Ireland and Australia? IRCHSS/Australian Academies of the Humanities and Social Sciences workshop series, Canberra December, Dublin June.
- Elder C, (2009) ?Taking stock: the why and how of changing research agendas? Academy of the Humanities 40th anniversary symposium, National Library Canberra November.
- Elder, C. (2009) ?National Narratives at the Tent Embassy and Reconciliation Place?, The Nation: Narratives and Community, CENS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Elder, C. (2008) ?History on Television? Australian Government Summer School for Teachers of Australian History, ANU, Canberra, ACT.
- Elder, C. (2007) ?Remembering Women?s Working Lives: Oral History and the Everyday?, Writing Lives Workshop, National Museum of Australia, Canberra, ACT.
Selected grants
2015
- Children of War: Australia and the War in the Pacific 1941 - 1944; Grieves V, Hughes K, Elder C; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Indigenous (IN).
2014
- Indigenous research network; Elder C; Worldwide Universities Network/WUN Research Development Fund.
- Telling it like it is: Aboriginal perspectives on Aborigines, Euro-Australians and race relations; Habibis D, Taylor P, Walter M, Elder C; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP).
2012
- Completing the Circle: Creating an Inclusive and Community-Engaged Faculty; McDonnell M, Hardie M, Hickey-Moody A, Elder C, Jagose A; University of Sydney/Social Inclusion Unit Flagship Grant.
2010
- Transformation of Space: Whiteness and Diversity; Elder C; Office of Global Engagement/IPDF Grant.
2006
- Popular history, television and national stories; Elder C; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
Selected publications
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New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
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Dreams and Nightmares of a White Australia: Representing Aboriginal Assimilation (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009)
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Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity (Allen and Unwin, 2007)
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