Dr Katherine Ellinghaus - Researcher Profile

Biography

Kat Ellinghaus holds a five year Monash Fellowship in the School of Historical Studies. She has a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne, and was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2002 to 2006. Kat is the author of Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937 (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: The university of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2002

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS)

Institution: The University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 1996

Publications

Books

Ellinghaus, K., 2006, Taking assimilation to heart: marriages of white women and indigenous men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln USA.

Book Chapters

Ellinghaus, K., 2009, Intimate assimilation: Comparing white-indigenous intermarriage in the United States and Australia, 1880s-1930s, in Moving Subjects: Gender, Mobility and Intimacy In An Age of Global Empire, eds Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois Press, Urbana USA, pp. 211-228.

Ellinghaus, K., 2009, Into the white man's kingdom: Whiteness and indigenous assimiliation policies in the US and Australia, 1880's-1960s, in Re-Orienting Whiteness, eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus, Palgrave Macmillan, New York USA, pp. 211-228.

Carey, J.L., Boucher, L.D., Ellinghaus, K., 2009, Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field, in Re-Orienting Whiteness, eds Leigh Boucher, Jane Carey and Katherine Ellinghaus, Palgrave MacMillan, USA, pp. 1-14.

Ellinghaus, K., 2006, The Pocahontas Exception: Indigenous 'Absorption' and Racial Integrity in the United States, 1880's-1920's, in Rethinking Colonial Histories: New and Alternative Approaches, eds Edmonds, P & Furphy, S, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 123-136.

Ellinghaus, K., 2004, Blood: The Society of American Indians and the Aborigine's Progressive Association Confront the Miscegenation in the Twentieth Century, in Unsettling America: Crisis and Belonging in United States History, eds Katherine Ellinghaus, Dept of History, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, pp. 25-38.

Journal Articles

Ellinghaus, K., 2009, Biological absorption and genocide: A comparison of indigenous assimilation in the United States and Australia, Genocide Studies and Prevention [P], vol 4, issue 1, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada, pp. 59-78.

Ellinghaus, K., 2008, The Benefits of Being Indian: Blood Quanta, Intermarriage, and Allotment Policy on the White Earth Reservation, 1889-1920, Frontiers, vol 29, issue 2 & 3, University of Nebraska Press, United States, pp. 81-105.

Ellinghaus, K., 2006, Indigenous assimilation and absorption in the United States and Australia, Pacific Historical Review, vol 75, issue 4, University of California Press, USA, pp. 563-585.

Ellinghaus, K., 2003, Absorbing the 'Aboriginal problem': controlling interracial marriage in Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century, Aboriginal History, vol 27, Aboriginal History Inc, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 183-207.

Ellinghaus, K., 2003, Margins of acceptability: class, education, and interracial marriage in Australia and North America, Frontiers, vol 23, issue 3, University of Nebraska Press, Nebraska, USA, pp. 55-75.

Conference Proceedings

Ellinghaus, K., Boucher, L.D., 2007, Historicising whiteness: Towards a new research agenda, Historicising whiteness: Transnational perspective on the construction of an identity, 22-24 November 2006, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. vi-xxiii.

Ellinghaus, K., 2007, Whiteness as bureaucracy: Assimilation policies and people of white/indigenous descent in Australia and the United States, Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity, 22-24 November 2006, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 375-383.

Ellinghaus, K., 2007, Whiteness as bureaucracy: Assimilation policies and people of white/indigenous descent in Australia and the United States, Historicising Whiteness: Transnational perspectives on the construction of an identity, 22-24 November 2006, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 375-383.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Black Power and the Politics of Legal Equality.

Supervisors:

Attwood, B (Main), Ellinghaus, K (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The trail to citizenship: freedmen of the five tribes as civil war veterans in Indian territory, 1865-1907.

Supervisors:

Ellinghaus, K (Main), Attwood, B (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Ferns, N.

Program of Study:

"My Second Personality:" The Relationship Between Woodrow Wilson and Colonel Edward House. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ellinghaus, K (Main), Attwood, B (Associate).