Professor Peter Read

Professorial Research Fellow

PhD (ANU)
Room 813 Brennan Building

+61 2 9351 2877

Peter Read comes to the History Department from the ANU where he has worked for most of his academic life. There he lectured in Australian and Aboriginal history, held a Research Fellowship in the Urban Studies Program, an ARC Research Fellow, an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, and was Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies.

• Aboriginal Australia
• Museums and memorialisation, especially in Cuba and Chile
• Place
• Oral history

• Biography of Janaka Wiradjuri (Joy Williams)
• A history of Aboriginal Sydney
• A study of writers and regional identity in the Pacific, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand (with Margaret Perkins and Brij Lal) ARC Discovery Project 2007-2009

Haunted Earth (2003)

Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership (2000)

A Rape of the Soul So Profound: The Return of the Stolen Generation (1999)

Returning to Nothing: The Meaning of Lost Places (1996)

Long Time Olden Time: Aboriginal Accounts of Northern Territory History (1992)

Charles Perkins: A biography (1990)

• Chairperson of the journal Aboriginal History
• Public Officer for Stolen Generations Link Up (NSW).