Dr Shino Konishi

Dr Shino Konishi joined the National Museum's Centre for Historical Research as an Indigenous Research Fellow in January 2008.

Shino is researching projects on the histories of Indigenous Australians in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Shino has been a lecturer at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney and an associate lecturer at the Aboriginal Research and Resource Centre at the University of New South Wales, teaching Aboriginal studies and Australian history.

In 1998 she was awarded the inaugural New South Wales Ministry for the Arts Indigenous History Fellowship for the project Western Representations of Aboriginal Masculinity.

In 2006 Shino she received an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Grant with Leah Lui-Chivizhe, of the Koori Centre, to work on the project Laying the Tracks: Torres Strait Islander Labour in Northern Australia.

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

The history of maritime exploration of Australia and the Pacific; first contact narratives; histories of race, the body and masculinity; and 18th century studies.

• Nineteenth-century European voyagers, Aborigines, and culture-contact.
• Laying the Tracks: Torres Strait Islander Labour in Northern Australia.

S Konishi, 'François Péron and the Tasmanians: an unrequited romance', in M Hannah and I Macfarlane (eds), Transgressions: critical Australian Indigenous histories, Aboriginal History monograph 16, ANU e-Press, Canberra, 2007.

S Konishi, 'The father governor: the British administration of Aboriginal people at Port Jackson, 1788-1792', in M McCormack (ed.) Public Men: Political Masculinities in Modern Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, 2007, pp. 54-72.

S Konishi, 'Depicting sexuality, a case study on the Baudin expedition's Aboriginal ethnography', Australian Journal of French Studies, vol. 41, no. 2, 2004, pp. 98-116.

S Konishi, 'The tantalising cannibal: rationalising anthropophagy in the long eighteenth century', Signatures, vol. 5, summer 2002.

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