Dr Julie Fenwick - Researcher Profile

Biography

Julie has been a lecturer in History-politics at Monash University since 2007. Her research interests include Aboriginal history and Holocaust history, and she also has an interest in public history and museum studies.

Julie’s research focuses on the field of Aboriginal history and her PhD thesis, “‘Dealing with a Nation’: Conceptualising Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990”, examined the ways in which indigenous people explore a range of options for engaging with the Australian state.

Current research is focused on the National Aboriginal Conference’s campaign for a treaty and the subsequent development of ideas of sovereignty in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Julie is also interested in heritage history, and is currently undertaking a study of significant objects at the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre, Melbourne, which is funded by Heritage Victoria. Julie also recently co-authored a two-part Heritage Victoria funded study at Old Gippstown heritage park. Two further studies at the Jewish Holocaust Centre have focused on items from Lodz ghetto and the museum's textiles collection and were funded by Heritage Victoria and the National Library of Australia's Community Heritage Grants program.

project that examined textiles in the Jewish Holocaust Centre collection.

Keywords

Indigenous Australians - history

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2007

HONOURS DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2003

Publications

Journal Articles

Fenley, J., 2011, The national Aborginal conference and the Makarrata: sovereignty and treaty discussions, 1979-1981, Australian Historical Studies [P], vol 42, issue 3, Routledge, Australia, pp. 372-389.

Fenwick, J.A., 2003, Review: Ann Curthoy, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers, Eras Journal, vol -, issue 5, Monash University, School of Historical Studies, Australia, pp. 1-2.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Is this the policy to close the gap in indigenous health outcomes? Examining the prospect of improving the health of indigenous peoples through the council of Australian governments closing gap in indigenous disadvantage agenda..

Supervisors:

Edmondson, E (Main), Fenwick, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

What were the goals of the Northern Territory intervention and were these goals successful?.

Supervisors:

Gunstone, A (Main), Fenwick, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Women on the Jordan Goldfields.

Supervisors:

Fenwick, J (Main), Quartly, M (Associate).