| Hilary
M. Carey is an Associate Professor in the School of Liberal
Arts, University of Newcastle where she teaches and conducts research
in religious history. She has published Courting Disaster
(London: Macmillan, 1991); Believing in Australia (Sydney:
Allen & Unwin, 1996) and other books. From 1996 - 2000, she
was editor of the Journal of Religious History. She has been
a visiting lecturer and/or fellow at Balliol College Oxford, Macquarie
University, St Andrew's University, Scotland, the Centre for Medieval
Studies, University of Sydney and the Humanities Research Centre,
ANU Canberra.
Vicki
Grieves currently a lecturer in the Wollotuka School of
Aboriginal Studies, is Worimi-Kattang from the vicinity of the
Great Lakes and Manning River in the midnorth coast region of
NSW. She has a BA (Hons 1) with a double major in history from
the University of NSW, and Grad. Dip. Ed. from the University
of Sydney. Vicki has twenty years experience as an educator, administrator
and manager with the context of Indigenous affairs in universities,
the Commonwealth Public Service and Aboriginal community controlled
organisations. Vicki is Doctor of Philosophy
student at the Macquarie University, researching her family history,
"The Changing McClymont Family Fortunes: A History of Race
Relations on the Mid North Coast of NSW 1834 - 1934." Her
research interests include Australian Indigenous philosophy; constructions
of race and Australian Indigenous identity in history and in contemporary
society; Indigenous history in colonial Australia, particularly
the impacts of Indigenous out-marriage; Indigenous Australian
genealogical research and impacts of public policy on Australian
Indigenous communities and individuals.
John
Maynard is a research academic and lecturer with the University
of Newcastle's Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies. John's
traditional roots lie with the Worimi people of Port Stephens.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Australia
(1999) and a Diploma of Aboriginal Studies from Newcastle University
(1995), and was the recipient of the Stanner Fellow for 1996.
John is the author of Aboriginal Stars of the Pigskin - The
History of Aboriginal Involvement with Australian Horseracing,
and has had numerous articles published in the Journal of Aboriginal
History and the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
He is currently writing a Ph.D. thesis on "Fred Maynard &
the Awakening of Aboriginal Political Consciousness in Twentieth
Century Australia," and is composing a study of the life's
work of Percy Haslam with funding from an ARC Indigenous Research
Development Grant.
David Andrew Roberts lectures in Australian
history in the School
of Classics, History and Religion at the University of New England.
He was formerly a postgraduate research student with the Department
of History at the University of Newcastle, NSW, where he tutors
in Australian History. His PhD thesis on the colonial frontier
at Wellington Valley, written under the supervision of Assoc.
Prof. Hilary M. Carey, was awarded in 2001. His 1993 Honours thesis
on the Bells Falls massacre at Bathurst won the University's Group
Establishment Prize. David has been published in Australian
Historical Studies, the Journal of Australian Colonial
History, Ethnohistory and the Napoleonic Alliance
Gazette. He sits on the editorial board of JACH and
has refereed articles for AHS. His interests include the
study of Aboriginal rock paintings in western Arnhem Land. He
is co-author of Ancient Ochres: The Aboriginal Rock Paintings
of Mount Borradaile, and co-editor of a 3rd. edition of Carl
Warburton's classic frontier memoir, Buffaloes: Adventures
in Arnhem Land, to be published in 2003.
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