Rate My Professor Annemarie Mclaren

Dr. Annemarie McLaren is a Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University (2018) and a B.A. from the University of Sydney. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the biennial Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history by the Australian Historical Association in 2020. She has also received the Allan Martin Award from the Australian Historical Association (2021) and the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize (2017). McLaren has held research fellowships at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge), the Omohundro Institute and Jamestown Rediscovery Center (Virginia), and Griffith University. She serves as Review Editor and board member of the journal Aboriginal History and is a board member of the History Council of Western Australia. Her teaching areas include Australian History, Imperial History, Indigenous Studies, and Historiography.

McLaren's research specializations encompass empire and imperialism, Aboriginal and cross-cultural history, Australian history especially New South Wales, exploration history and colonial knowledge, indigeneity, public history, and heritage. Her current project is the monograph Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835: When the Strangers Came to Stay, forthcoming from Oxford University Press in the Past & Present series. Key publications include “No Fish, No House, No Melons: the Earliest Aboriginal Guides in Colonial New South Wales” (Aboriginal History, 2020), “Trading Places: Alexander Berry's Navigation of Humanity as Physician, Merchant, Landowner and Natural Historian” (Intellectual History Review, 2020, with Bruce Buchan), “Captain Cook Upon Changing Seas: Indigenous Voices and Reimagining at the British Museum” (Journal of Pacific History, 2019, with Alison Clark), “A Many-Sided Frontier: History and ‘Shades of Grey’ in Sweet Country” (Australian Historical Studies, 2019), “Reading the Entangled Life of Goggey, an Aboriginal Man on the Fringes of Early Colonial Sydney” (Ethnohistory, 2018), and “Searching in the Shadows: Aboriginal Woman in Early New South Wales” (book chapter, 2021, with Shino Konishi). She has presented at international conferences and supervises research in imperial, cross-cultural, and Australian history.