Professor John Maynard - Publications
2015 Publications
2015 Maynard JM, Callaghan: The University of Newcastle: Whose Traditional Land,
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW
2015
Maynard JM, 'Garvey in Oz: the International Black Influence on Australian
Aboriginal Political Activism', Anywhere But Here: Black Intellectuals in the Atlantic
World and Beyond, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS 99-116
2015
Maynard JM, 'John J. Moloney - The Voice of the North', Radical Newcastle, New
South, Sydney 94-105
2015
Maynard JM, ''Welfare' and 'Protection' Boards Removed Aboriginal Children. Now
Their True Histories Will Be Revealed.', newmatilda,
2015
Maynard JM, 'Stories Must Be Recorded', Koori Mail, 25-25
2015 Maynard JM, 'Capturing the Lived History of the Aborigines Protection Board While
We Still Can', The Conversation
2015 Maynard JM, '''Let us go' ... it's a 'Blackfellows' War': Aborigines and the Boer war',
Aboriginal History, 39 142-162
2015 Maynard JM, 'Review - Adding Pimento- Caribbean Migration to Victoria Australia
2015 Maynard JM, Review 'Geoffrey Blainey takes fresh look at Australia's early history,
The Age
2015 Maynard JM, On a Mission - The Life and Times of Biraban and L.E. Threlkeld,
Booragul, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
2015 Maynard JM, On a Mission - The Life and Times of Biraban and L.E. Threlkeld, Lake
Macquarie Art Gallery, Exhibition/Catalogue
2015 Maynard JM, Fighting for Country, Lake Macquarie Art Gallery
Exhibition/Catalogue
2015 Maynard JM, 'The Rise and Demise of the Freedom club', Disobedient Objects
Exhibition (Blog): Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Books and Monographs
The Aboriginal Soccer Tribe: A History of Aboriginal Involvement with the World Game (2011).
Magabala Books.
Fight for Liberty and Freedom – Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal Progressive
Association, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, ACT, 2007
Awabakal Word Finder and Dreaming Stories Companion, Keeira Press, Queensland, 2004
Wannin Tanbarin – A history of Aboriginal/European Contact in Muswellbrook and the Upper
Hunter Valley, Muswellbrook City Council, Muswellbrook, 2004
Aboriginal Stars of the Turf – Australian Aboriginal Jockeys (Revised and Expanded), Aboriginal
Studies Press, Canberra, ACT 2003
Aboriginal Stars of the Turf – Australian Aboriginal Jockeys , Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra,
ACT 2002
Entries in Reference Books
Marcus Garvey, In Iriye Akira and Saunier Pierre Yves (Ed) The Palgrave Dictionary of
Transnational History, Palgrave MacMillan, London 2009
Pre-colonial Histories: Australia, In P. Podder, & D. Johnson, An Historical Companion to Post
Colonial Literature, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 2005
Aboriginal Involvement With Organised Horse Racing. In S. Kleinert, & M. Neale (Ed.) The Oxford
Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture. Oxford University Press, Sydney, 2000
Chapters in Books
‘In the interest of our people’ – The rise of Aboriginal political activism and Garveyism, In T.
Martin (Ed) Global Garveyism, Majority Press, USA. (In press)
In Search of Aboriginal Nationalism, In Nations and Nationalism in a Global Perspective: An
Encyclopaedia of Origins, Development and Contemporary Transitions, ABC Clio, United States,
2008
Transcultural/Transnational Interaction and Influences on Aboriginal Australia, In M. Lake & A.
Curthoys (Eds) Transnational History: Breaking Down Border Protection, Australian National
University Press, Canberra, 2005
The Other Fellow: Fred Maynard and the 1920s Defence of Cultural Difference, In T. Rowse (Ed.)
Contesting Assimilation – histories of colonial and Indigenous initiatives, Curtin University Press,
Perth, 2005
Light in the Darkness – Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton and the 1920s fight for Aboriginal Rights, In F
Paisley, A Cole and V Haskins (Eds) Uncommon Ground: white women in Aboriginal History,
Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2005
Refereed Journal Articles and Published Papers in Conference Proceedings
Sporting Walkabout – Transnational understandings of Australian Aboriginal sporting migration,
International Journal of the History of Sport, 2009
The Shark, Remora and Aboriginal History, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies,
Vol 1, Number 1, 2009
Football Barriers – Aboriginal under-representation and disconnection from the ‘World Game’,
(Ed) Christopher Hallinan & John Hughson Fencing off Soccer: The Containment of the World
Game in Australia – (Special Issue Soccer in Society Journal), 2008
Circles in the Sand – An Indigenous Framework of Historical Practice, The Australian Journal of
Indigenous Education, Vol 365, 2007
‘In the interests of our people’ – The influence of Garveyism on the rise of Australian Aboriginal
political activism, Aboriginal History, Vol 29 2006
“Be the change that you want to see”: The awakening of cultural nationalism – Gandhi, Garvey
and the AAPA, In J. Docker & D Ganguly Gandhi, Non-Violence and Modernity, (Special Issue
Borderlands EJournal), 2006
Sex, Race and Power: Aboriginal Men and White Women in Australian History, Australian
Historical Studies, Vol 36, Number 126, 2005
‘For Liberty and Freedom’: Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association,
Teaching History – Journal of the History Teachers’ Association of NSW, Vol 39 Number 1, 2005
Australian History - Lifting Haze or Descending Fog, Aboriginal History, Vol 27, 2004
Vision, Voice and Influence: The Rise of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association,
Australian Historical Studies, No 121 April 2003
The 1920s Aboriginal Political Defence of the Sacred ‘Ancient Code’, In Deborah Bird Rose and
Ian Macintosh (Ed.) Cultural Survival Quarterly, USA, 2002
Muloobinbah (Newcastle) an Aboriginal industrial presence: past and present Journal of the
Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol 87, part 2, 2001,
Peter Jackson Perfect Man, Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies JIGS, Vol 6 2001
Survival Tales – The Colour Bar of Exclusion, in M Crotty, J Germov & G Rodwell, (Ed.) "A Race for
Place" Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia: Proceedings of the
History and Sociology of Eugenics Conference, University of Newcastle 27th & 28th April 2000
Aboriginal Stars of the Pigskin. Journal of Aboriginal History. Vol 22, 1998
Fred Maynard and the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association. Journal of Aboriginal
History. Vol 21, 1997
Minor Journal Articles
Editorial, In Locality: The Community History Magazine, Australian Centre for Public History,
UTS, Sydney, 2002
Book Reviews
Sovereign Subjects: Indigenous Sovereignty Matters, Aileen Morton Robinson, Australian
Journal of Indigenous Education, Volume 36, 2007
Freedom Ride: a freedom rider remembers, Ann Curthoys. Australian Historical Studies, 2005
The True Story of JIMMY GOVERNOR, NSW Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 2001
Fighters in the Fringe by Robert A. Hall. Journal of Aboriginal History, Vol.20, 1997
Eye of the Eagle, Ron Bunney. Journal of Aboriginal History, 1996
Current Grants
Joint Research Grant 2014 – ARC Discovery ($610,0000) DP150100247 The NSW Aborigines
Protection/Welfare Board 1883-1969: A History, (2015-2019) John Maynard (University of
Newcastle), Victoria Haskins (University of Newcastle), Ray Kelly (University of Newcastle),
Lorena Barker (University of New England), Lawrence Bamblett (AIATSIS), Jaky Troy
(University of Sydney)
Joint Research Grant 2012 – ARC Special Research Initiative for an Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Researchers’ Network ($3,200,000.00) National Indigenous Research and
Knowledges Network (NIRAKN), (2013-2016) John Maynard (University of Newcastle),
Aileen Moreton Robinson (QUT), Larissa Behrendt (UTS), Steve Larkin (CDU), Maggie
Walter (UTAS), Bronwyn Fredericks (CQ University)
Joint Research Grant 2012 – ARC Linkage Grant – LP120200327 - Serving our country: a
history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia,
($1,024,275.00) McGrath, Prof Ann M; Dodson, Prof Mick ; Maynard, Prof John ; Riseman,
Dr Noah J; Gray, Dr Geoffrey ; Furphy, Dr Samuel
Current Positions
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AIATSIS Council
Fulbright Ambassador
Fellow Australian Social Sciences Academy
Director Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre
Professorial Fellow - National Centre for Indigenous Studies ANU.
Professorial Fellow - Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Education
(ACIKE) CDU
Editorial Boards
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International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies - QUT
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Critical Indigenous Studies – University of Arizona, USA
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Journal of Australian Studies – Routledge, UK
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Australian Aboriginal studies, Journal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Studies
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ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies, First Peoples’ and First Nations’ Cultures,
Penn State Press, USA.