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Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Ben Silverstein researches in colonial and Indigenous histories, with a focus on Australia. His work engages questions of race and settler colonialism as well as contests over sovereignties and colonial government. His first book, titled Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia’s North (Manchester University Press, 2019), explored Australian articulations of indirect rule as a mode of governing Aboriginal people in the interwar period.
Qualifications
BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Melbourne), PhD (La Trobe)
Research Interests
Indigenous histories, Deep history, settler colonialism, Australian history, histories of race.
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Deep Historicities
Rademaker, L. & Silverstein, B., 2022, In: Interventions. 24, 2, p. 137-160 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review Forum: Mark McKenna’s Return to Uluru
Nugent, M., Silverstein, B., Spiers Williams, M. & McKenna, M., 2022, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 46, 3, p. 370-385 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Theoretical Frontiers
Silverstein, B., 2022, The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History. Oxford: Routledge, Vol. 1. p. 56-85Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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‘Throwing Mud’ on Questions of Sovereignty: Race and Northern Arguments over White, Chinese, and Aboriginal Labour, 1905–12
Silverstein, B., 2022, In: Australian Historical Studies. 53, 4, p. 564-583 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Deep history and deep listening: Indigenous knowledges and the narration of deep pasts
McGrath, A., Rademaker, L. & Silverstein, B., 2021, In: Rethinking History. 25, 3, p. 307-326 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
8 Citations (Scopus)
Projects
- 1 Active
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Rediscovering the Deep Human Past: Global Networks, Future Opportunities
McGrath, A., Brougham, N., Jones, M., Newham, J., Rademaker, L., Rickwood, J. & Silverstein, B.
26/02/18 → 24/02/25
Project: Research