Shino Konishi

Shino Konishi joined the Australian Centre for Indigenous History as a research fellow in August 2008. Previously she was a research fellow at the National Museum of Australia 's Centre for Historical Research and a lecturer at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney . She was also the inaugural winner of the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Indigenous History Fellowship in 1998.

Shino completed her PhD in the History Department at the University of Sydney in 2007. Her thesis Bodies in Contact: European Representations of Aboriginal Men, 1770-1803 , concerned the history of eighteenth-century cross-cultural encounters in Australia . It examined French and British maritime explorers' representations of the Aboriginal male body, contextualised within contemporary European intellectual, cultural, and political milieus. She has published articles on French encounters with Aboriginal people, and the early settlement in Sydney .

She is now researching nineteenth-century European voyagers' observations on the British colonies in Australia , and their governance of Aboriginal people. She is also working on a history of Torres Strait Islander migration to the mainland in the 1960s with Leah Lui-Chivizhe . This book, Laying the Tracks: Torres Strait Islanders and the Northern Australian Railways, will be published by the National Museum of Australia Press in 2010.

Shino has recently co-edited a special issue on 'Indigenous Bodies' for Borderlands E-Journal with Leah Lui-Chivizhe and Lisa Slater, which will be published in November 2008.

Shino is of Aboriginal descent and identifies with the Yawuru people of Broome , Western Australia .

Areas of Research

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history
• Indigenous masculinity
• Indigenous labour history
• Histories of the body
• Cross-cultural encounters
• Eighteenth-century voyages of discovery

Areas of Supervision

• Indigenous Australian history
• Cross-cultural encounters
• Indigenous labour history

Publications

Articles

With Leah Lui-Chivizhe and Lisa Slater, ‘Indigenous Bodies', in Shino Konishi, Leah Lui-Chivizhe , Lisa Slater (eds), ‘Indigenous Bodies' , special edition of Borderlands E-journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 (forthcoming).

‘“tied in rolled knots and powdered with ochre”: Aboriginal hair and eighteenth-century cross-cultural encounters', in Shino Konishi, Leah Lui-Chivizhe , Lisa Slater (eds), ‘Indigenous Bodies' , special edition of Borderlands E-journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008 (forthcoming).

‘“Wanton with plenty”: Questioning ethno-historical constructions of sexual savagery in Aboriginal societies', Australian Historical Studies , Vol. 39, No. 3, 2008, 356 - 372.

‘“Inhabited by a race of formidable giants”: French explorers, Aborigines, and the endurance of the fantastic in the Great South Land , 1803', Australian Humanities Review, Iss. 44, April 2008. Available at http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org

‘Depicting sexuality: a case study on the Baudin expedition's Aboriginal ethnography', Australian Journal of French Studies , Vol. XLI, No. 2, 2004, 98-116.

‘The tantalising cannibal: rationalising anthropophagy in the long eighteenth century', Signatures , Vol. 5, Summer 2002, [online], Available at www.chiuni.ac.uk/info/documents/signature_pdfs/Signatures_Vol5.pdf

Chapters in books

‘Rainbow Serpent', in Richard White and Melissa Harper (eds) Symbols of Australia , UNSW Press, 2009 (forthcoming).

‘The Father Governor: The British Administration of Aboriginal People at Port Jackson , 1788-1792', in Matthew McCormack (ed.) Public Men: Political Masculinities in Modern Britain , Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2007, 54-72.

‘François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance', in Mark Hannah and Ingereth Macfarlane (eds), Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories , Aboriginal History monograph 16, ANU e-Press, 2007, 1-18. Available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/aborig_history/transgressions/pdf/ch01.pdf

Reviews

‘Exhibition review: Pioneers of the Inland: Australia 's Muslim Cameleers 1860s-1930s', History Australia, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008.

‘Book review: Martin Nakata's Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines ', Journal of Australian Studies , Vol. 32, Iss. 2, June 2008, 285-6.

‘ Exhibition Review: Eora: Mapping Aboriginal Sydney , 1770-1850', History Australia , Vol. 4, No. 1, June 2007.

Professional Associations

• Editorial Board Member, Aboriginal History Journal
• Associate, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia
• Member, Australian Historical Association
• Member, AIATSIS
• Member, Oral History Association of NSW