Dr Christine Choo

Qualifications:

BA, MSW, Mphil(Aust.Studies), PhD
 
Research Interests:

Aboriginal issues, cross-cultural issues, history/oral history, life writing, Western Australian history, women.

 
Teaching Interests:

As Honorary Research Fellow offer co-supervision of one or two postgraduate students.

Profile:

Christine Choo is a Historian with a background in Social Work and Australian Studies. She has worked as a consultant historian, social worker, social researcher since the early 1970s and has published widely in race and gender issues. She is a past member of the Board of the Daughters of Charity Services and Mercy Community Services as well as an appointee to the National Population Council and the WA Multicultural Advisory Council. Christine is currently a member of the Mental Health Review Board.

Publications:

History and Native Title, Studies in Western Australian History, Volume 23, 2003, Centre for Western Australian History, UWA, 2003.

Sister Kate's Home for "Nearly White" Children', Chapter 9, Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (eds), Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2002.

Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia, 1900 - 1950, Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2001.

with Margaret O’Connell, ‘Historical Narrative and Proof of Native Title’, Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title, Vol. 2, Issues paper no. 3, March 2000, Native Title Research Unit, AIATSIS, Canberra.

‘A Challenge to Human Rights: Aboriginal Women in the West Kimberley’ in Patricia Crawford & Judy Skene (eds), Women and Citizenship: Suffrage Centenary, Studies in Western Australian History, Vol. 19, 1999, pp 48 - 61.

‘History, Native Title and Reconciliation’, History in Practice, Limina: a journal of historical and cultural studies, Vol. 5, 1999, pp 138 - 42.

‘Remembering…Family, Place and Identity’ in Catalogue for Sites of Memory, An exhibition of Contemporary Tapestry Works by Antoinette Carrier presented by Craftwest Centre for Contemporary Craft, 15 October to 13 November 1999. [also in Issue No.6, December 1999, Penang Past and Present, a publication of the Museum and Art Gallery of Penang]

with Shawn Hollbach, ‘Historians and Native Title Litigation’, Indigenous Law Bulletin, November 1998.

‘On the Edge and In Between: the experience of an Asian-Australian historian’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, No. 20, 1998, pp 34 - 40.

‘The role of Catholic missionaries at Beagle Bay in the removal of Aboriginal children from their families in the Kimberley region from the 1890s’. Aboriginal History, Vol. 21, 1997 [published in 1999], pp 14 - 29.

Aboriginal Child Poverty, Melbourne: Brotherhood of St Laurence [and the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC)], 1990.

Numerous reviews published in printed and electronic journals.

Val Colic-Peisker (ed) Split Lives: Croatian-Australian Stories, Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004. Reviewed by Christine Choo, University of Western Australia for on-line journal Australian Humanities Review, Issue 34, January-February 2005.

http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-Jan-2005/choo.html

Publications in Progress:

‘A Historian’s Recollections of the Miriuwung Gajerrong Case’ in S Toussaint (ed.) Crossing Boundaries: Cultural, Legal and Historical Issues in Native Title, Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press.

‘Chinese – indigenous Australian connections in Western Australia’ in H D M Chan, Chinese in Australian and New Zealand History, [University of Sydney Press].

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