Ann Curthoys Manning Clark Professor of History Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Tel: (61) 2 6125 0518 Fax: (61) 2 6125 2222 Ann.Curthoys@anu.edu.au

See my details on my web page at http://arts.anu.edu.au/history/curthoys.

Her ARC Professorial Fellowship, which began in March 2007, is for a project entitled 'Indigenous Peoples, the British Empire, and self-government for the Australian colonies'. This project investigates the process and consequences of granting self-government to the British colonies in Australia in the context of Indigenous histories. In brief, the project aims to increase our understanding of:

1. the reasons the Australian colonies gained self-government in domestic matters when and in the form they did;
2. the dynamic interactions of Indigenous peoples, settlers, imperial authorities, and missionaries during the negotiations over and the first decades of self-government;
3. the similarities and differences between the Australian colonies in terms of Indigenous policies and pacification, segregation, assimilation, encouraging economic self-sufficiency, and indifference; and
4. Australian colonial sense of self, identity, and place in the world, especially as formed and articulated in relation to Britain and Indigenous peoples in the mid and later nineteenth century.