contents
 introduction
 scope
 activities
 capacities
 infrastructure
 & benefits
 participants
    dennis altman
    michelle arrow
    paul arthur
    carol bacchi
    ros bandt
    larissa behrendt
    mary besemeres
    richard broome
    chilla bulbeck
    anthony burke
    david carment
    david carter
    jock collins
    liz conor
    greg craven
    martin crotty
    denis cryle
    ann curthoys
    kate darian-smith
    lynette finch
    rae frances
    lucy frost
    stephen garton     heather goodall
    anna haebich
    dennis haskell
    anthony hassall
    jeannie herbert
    jenny hocking
    alison holland
    elizabeth jacka
    bruce johnson
    carol johnson
    mary kalantzis
    marilyn lake
    kateryna longley
    andrew mccann
    chris mcconville
    russell mcdougall
    philip mead
    clive moore
    nicole moore
    stephen muecke
    ffion murphy
    john murphy
    martin nakata
    garth nettheim
    karl neuenfeldt
    christine nicholls
    richard nile
    marguerite nolan
    wenche ommundsen
    darlene oxenham
    maureen perkins
    emily potter
    jan ryan
    kay saunders
    sean scalmer
    bruce scates
    kay schaffer
    joanne scott
    graham seal
    june senyard
    sue sheridan
    judith smart
    tom stannage
    daniela stehlik
    jenny strauss
    sian supski
    hsu-ming teo
    graham tulloch
    james walter
    richard waterhouse
    elizabeth webby
    gus worby
    clare wright

 participants: maureen perkins
 Maureen Perkins
Postdoctoral Fellow
Australia Research Institute
Curtin University of Technology


Research Projects
1998 ARC small grant, $7,000, for research contributing to The Reform of Time.

1997 ARC small grant, c. $7,000, for research contributing to Australian Almanacs 1806-1930.

1996 Fellowship awarded at the Centre for the Book, British Library, London, for research contributing to 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper & Daniel Pick, History and Dreams, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming in 2003.

1995 Publication grant from the Australian Academy of the Humanities with the purpose of providing illustrations for Visions of the Future.
Publications
Monographs

The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity (Pluto Press, London, 2001).

Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change 1775-1870 (Oxford University Press, Clarendon imprint, Oxford). Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Award, 1997, and the Katharine Briggs Memorial Prize, University College London.

Articles

2003 Forthcoming: 'Australian Mixed Race', European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol 7, 2004.

2001 'The Trial of Joseph Powell, Fortune-teller', Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 27-45.

1999 Maureen Perkins & Ian Morrison, 'A Bibliography of Australian Almanacs, 1806-ca. 1920: Notes on Work in Progress', Biblionews vol. 24, no. 1 (March, 1999).

1999 'The Meaning of Dream Books', History Workshop Journal, vol. 48, (Sept/Oct 1999), pp. 102-113.

Book Chapters

2004 'Australian Almanacs' in Wallace Kirsop & Elizabeth Webby, History of the Book in Australia, vol. 1.

2003 Forthcoming: 'False Whiteness', in Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ed., Critical Contexts (Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra).

2003 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper and Daniel Pick, eds., Dreams and History (Brunner-Routledge, London).

Edited Journals

2004 Life Writing, Vol 1-1, no 1, co-edited with Mary Besemeres.

2003 Mots Pluriels, no. 23, 'Translated Lives', co-edited with Mary Besemeres.

2000 Australian Journal of Politics and History, Spring 2000, edited with Dr Franz Oswald.

Ten Career-Best Publications

2004 'The Interpretation of Dreams', in Lyndal Roper and Daniel Pick, eds., Dreams and History (Brunner-Routledge, London).

2003 with Ian Morrison and Tracy Caulfield, Australian Almanacs 1806-1930, Melbourne: Quiddlers Press.

2003 Forthcoming: 'Australian Mixed Race', European Journal of Cultural Studies.

2001 'The Trial of Joseph Powell, Fortune-teller', Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 6, no. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 27-45.

2001 The Reform of Time: Magic and Modernity (Pluto Press, London).

1999 Maureen Perkins & Ian Morrison, 'A Bibliography of Australian Almanacs, 1806-ca. 1920: Notes on Work in Progress', Biblionews vol. 24, no. 1 (March, 1999).

1999 'The Meaning of Dream Books', History Workshop Journal, vol. 48, (Sept/Oct 1999), pp. 102-113.

1998 'Timeless Cultures: the Dreamtime as Colonial Discourse', Time and Society, vol. 7, no. 2 (Sept 1998), pp. 337-53.

1999 With Iain McCalman: 'Popular Culture' in I. McCalman, ed., An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832 (Oxford University Press, 1999).

1999 8 entries in An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832: 'Almanacs', 'Astrology', 'Fairy Tales', 'Fortune Telling', 'Joanna Southcott', 'Prophecies', 'Street Literature', and 'Thomas Taylor/Neoplatonism'.
Professional Development and community service
2003 Co-Director, Life Writing Research Unit, co-ordinator of seminar program and e-list.

2003 Chair of 'Gynosophia', women's arts group, mounting exhibition 2005.

2002-3 Adviser to City of Gosnells cross-cultural training programme.

2002 Member of panel at City of Gosnells multicultural forum.

2000-2 Convenor, postgraduate seminar program, School of Communication & Cultural Studies, Curtin University.

2000-3 Guest speaker for various community and academic groups, e.g. Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Migration Research Network, Curtin Humanities postgraduate conference, Centre for Aboriginal Studies research conference, Ora community group, Jewish centre, New Norcia librarians' day.
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