Andrew Markus - School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Position
Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation
Phone
61- 3- 9902 9944
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation
Building 11
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
Building H, 8th Floor, Caulfield Campus
Personal History
Andrew Markus holds the Pratt Foundation Research Chair of Jewish Civilisation. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is a past Head of Monash University's School of Historical Studies. He has published extensively in the field of Australian race relations and immigration history. His publications include Australia's Immigration Revolution (co-authored, 2009); Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001); Building a New Community. Immigration and the Victorian Economy (editor, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001) and Australian Race Relations 1788 - 1993 (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994).
Current Research
Andrew currently leads two ARC funded projects: an attitudinal study of the Jewish communities of Australia and New Zealand and a three generational history of Yiddish Melbourne. He is also the principal researcher on the Scanlon Foundation Social Cohesion research program, with the fifth national and third local area surveys to be conducted in 2012. Reports from these projects may be accessed at the following internet sites:
Major Publications (since 1990)
Books
- with Moshe Semyonov (eds.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared, Edward Elgar, London, 2010, pp. 195
- with James Jupp and Peter McDonald, Australia's Immigration Revolution, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009
- with Bain Attwood, The 1967 Referendum, Race, Power and the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2007, pp. iv-188
- with Bain Attwood, Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines League, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004
- (ed.), Building a New Community: Immigration and the Victorian Economy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 225
- Race: John Howard and the Remaking of Australia, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 270
- with Bain Attwood, The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2000, 1999, pp. xxi + 375
- with Bain Attwood, The 1967 Referendum, or When Australian Aborigines Didn't Get the Vote, Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997, pp. 155
- Australian Race Relation 1788-1993, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994, pp. xvi + 264
- Governing Savages, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1990, pp. 214
Chapters in Books
- ‘Social Cohesion/ Social Inclusion in Australia', in Fethi Mansouri and Michele Lobo, Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations, Ashgate, Surrey, UK, 2011, pp. 143-158
- ‘Racism and international students in Australia', in Ilana Snyder and John Nieuwenhuysen (eds), A Home Away from Home? International Students in Australian and South African Higher Education, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Vic., 2011, pp. 77-91
- ‘Attitudes to multiculturalism and cultural diversity', in James Jupp and Michael Clyne, Multiculturalism and Integration, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2011, pp. 89-100
- with Rebeca Reijman, ‘Immigration and public opinion', in Andrew Markus and Moshe Semyonov (eds.), Immigration and Nation Building: Australia and Israel Compared, Edward Elgar, London, 2010, pp. 115-140
- ‘Immigration and public opinion', in Australian Government, Productivity Commission, A Sustainable Population? Key Policy Issues Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra, 2010
- with Liudmila Kirpitchenko, 'Conceptualising social cohesion', in James Jupp and John Nieuwenhuysen (eds.), Social Cohesion in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 21-32
- 'Multiculturalism and the Jews', New under the sun: Jewish Australians on religion, politics and culture, Black Inc., Melbourne, 2006, pp. 93-107
- 'Anti-semitism and Australian Jewry', in Geoffrey Levey and Philip Mendes (eds), Jews and Australian Politics, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2004, pp. 109-126
- 'The Politics of Race', in Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage (eds), The Fuss that Never Ended, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 102-113
- with Bain Attwood, 'The Fight for Aboriginal Rights', in R. Manne (ed.),The Australian Century. Political Struggle in the Building of a Nation, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 1999, pp. 264-292. Republished 2001
- 'Aborigines in Labour History', in J. Hagan and A. Wells (eds),Australian Labour and Regional Change, University of Wollongong and Halstead Press, Rushcutters Bay, 1998, pp. 41-56
- with Bain Attwood, 'Representation Matters: The 1967 Referendum and Citizenship', in Nicolas Peterson and Will Sanders (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians. Changing Perceptions and Possibilities, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, pp. 118-40
- with Bowman Johnson, 'Growing up in Queensland', in Valerie Chapman and Peter Read (eds), Terrible Hard Biscuits. A Reader in Aboriginal History, Allen & Unwin and Journal of Aboriginal History, St Leonards, 1996, pp. 215-23 (reprint of article first published in Aboriginal History)
- 'Between Mabo and a hard place: race and the contradictions of conservatism', in B. Attwood (ed.), In the Age of Mabo. History, Aborigines and Australia. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1996, pp. 88-99
- 'Chinese immigration under the "White Australia policy", in Paul Macgregor (ed.), Histories of the Chinese in Australasia and the South Pacific, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 354-60
- 'Legislating White Australia', in D. Kirkby (ed.), Sex, Power and Justice. Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia. Oxford University Press, Melb., 1995, pp. 237-251
Recent Articles
- ‘A context for the asylum debate', Gesher, vol. 4, no.2, 2011, pp. 44-47
- ‘Talking about genocide', Australian Review of Public Affairs, University of Sydney, October 2011
- ‘Public opinion divided on population, immigration and asylum', Policy, vol. 26, no. 3, Spring 2010, pp. 7-13
- with Arunachalam Dharmalingham, ‘Attitudinal divergence in a Melbourne region of high immigrant concentration: a case study', People and Place, Monash University, Australia, 2007, pp. 38-48
- with Jessie Taylor, 'No work, no income, no Medicare – the Bridging Visa E regime', People and Place, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, pp. 43-52
- 'Genocide in Australia', Aboriginal History, vol. 25, 2001, pp. 57-69
Reference Works
- Fink, Miriam (Mina), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 17: 1940-1980. Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2007
- Entries on Giuliana Tedeschi, There is a place on earth; Avraham Tory, Surviving the Holocaust. The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory; Mark Verstandig, I rest my case in Thomas Riggs, Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature, St. James Press, Detroit, 2002
- 'Racial discrimination', in J. Jupp (ed.), The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, second ed., 2001, pp. 826-829
- 'Kramer, Ernest Eugene', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15: 1940-1980. Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 2000, pp. 40-1
- 'Aboriginal resistance', 'Aliens', and 'White Australia', in G. Davison et al. (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 11-12, 21-2, 681-3
- Co-author 'Racism', and author 'Racial Discrimination Act', The Australian Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition, Australian Geographic, Terrey Hills, 1996, pp. 2534-36
- 'Heyes, Sir Tasman Hudson Eastwood', Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14: 1940-1980. Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, 1996, pp. 446-47
- 'Racial conflict', in S. Dawson (ed.), The Penguin Australian Encyclopaedia, Viking, Ringwood, 1990, pp. 410-11
Areas of Research & Supervision
Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought – and the nature of variations within racial thought; the history of the Jewish communities of Australia; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; immigration and social cohesion; Australian asylum policy; public opinion surveying.
Completed Theses
- Rachel Stevens, ‘Debating Immigration Control in Australia and the United States, 1975-1995' (PhD 2011)
- Freda Hodge, ‘She'erit Hapletah and the Jewish Displaced Persons' Press in the American Zone of Germany 1945-1950' (MA 2011)
- Caryn Granek, ‘Wrapped in Light. An Exploration of Influences That Shaped the Development of Jewish Feminism in the Melbourne Jewish Community Between 1981 and 2005' (MA 2011)
- Kay Dreyfus, ‘Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators' (PhD 2010)
- David Slucki, ‘The Jewish Labor Bund After the Holocaust: A Comparative History' (PhD 2010)
- Melanie Landau, ‘The Sanctification of Marriage: A Feminist Analysis of Jewish Marriage' (PhD 2010)
- Margaret Taft, ‘From Victim to Survivor: The Emergence and Development of the Holocaust Witness 1941-1949' (PhD 2009)
- Jonathan Landes, 'History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives' (MA 2009)
- Elizabeth Stewart, ‘Law and Identity: German Jewish Identity in Pre-War Germany' (PhD 2008)
- Miriam Munz, ‘Culture, Community and Connectedness' (PhD 2008)
- Selena Costa-Pinto, 'Narrating Contemporary Migration: Indian women in Melbourne' (PhD 2008)
- Julie Fenwick, 'Dealing with a Nation': Conceptualizing Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990 (PhD 2007)
- Rachel Buchanan, ‘Village of Peace, Village of War: Parihaka Stories 1881-2004' (PhD 2005)
- Rodger Hein, ‘Humanitarian Responses in Australia to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956' (PhD 2004)
- Sue Taffe, ‘The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. The Politics of Inter-Racial Coalition in Australia, 1958-1973' (PhD 2001)
- Gwenda Baker, ‘Chaos and Control: Aborigines, Missions and Government in Arnhem Land, 1945-1975' (PhD 2000)
- Tetsuo Mizukami, ‘New Urban Ethnicity: Japanese Sojourner Residency in Melbourne' (PhD 1999)
- Philip O'Meara, ‘Negotiating Change: Representations of Immigration in Australian Magazines, 1947-1964' (PhD 1998)
Teaching
APG4293 - Genocidal thought