Dr Julie Evans

BA Melb. MA(Women’s Studies)Latrobe PhD(History) Melb.
Phone: +61 3 8344 5933
Email: j.evans@ unimelb.edu.au
Location: Room 435, John Medley Building, Parkville Campus

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Background

Julie Evans has an MA in Women’s Studies (La Trobe) and a PhD in History (University of Melbourne). She co-ordinates the Honours and Internship programmes in Criminology.

Research

Julie’s research interests coalesce around the intersections between law, history, race and colonialism. Her work is interdisciplinary (law, history, criminology) and comparative (19thc British colonies / ‘post-colonial’ settler states) and draws on a range of critical theoretical frameworks.

Julie publishes research on Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Caribbean and on the theory and practice of European law, including the notions of sovereignty and the rule of law. Her books include Edward Eyre, race and colonial governance (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2005); Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples and Political Rights in British Settlements, 1830-1910, [with Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips and Shurlee Swain], (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2003); and Writing Colonial Histories: Comparative Perspectives [contributing editor, with Tracey Banivanua Mar]  (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing: 2002).

Current research grants

Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies, ARC Linkage, (partners National Museum of Australia, Museum Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Joint CI with Professor Kate Darian-Smith, Research Fellow Dr Penny Edmonds)

Beyond the pale: Indigenous peoples and the notion of the ‘exception’ in the constitution and transformation of sovereignty, ARC Discovery

Conferences

 ‘New Worlds, New Sovereignties’, co-convenor with Dr Patrick Wolfe (La Trobe University), co-host with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, University of Melbourne, June 6-9, 2008: http://newsovereignties.org

Subjects taught

Julie co-ordinates the Honours and Criminology programmes in Criminology and teaches:

• 191-004 Introduction to Research Methods
• 191-536 Criminology Internship
• 166558 Social Science Research Seminar
• 191-538 Law, Race and Indigenous Peoples

Supervision  

Julie supervises a range of research topics that engage critically with the history of sovereignty; British colonialism; the theory and practice of settler colonialism; Indigenous peoples and the law; Indigenous peoples and criminal justice systems; race, gender and human rights.

PhD students:

Jennifer Anderson (Law/Criminology), Conceptions of juvenile criminality and the establishment of the Children's Court in Victoria, 1880s – 1906

Simone Gristwood (Criminology), An Analysis of Indigenous Offenders in the criminal justice system in Victoria

Lia Kent (Law/Criminology), Transitional Justice in East Timor

Ruth Liston (History), The history of the Victorian Probation Officers Association

Giordano Nanni (History). The Colonization of Time: ritual, routine and resistance in the 19th-century Cape Colony and Victoria (2006)

Sharon Low (History), Domestic orientations: travel writing and romantic fiction on the Middle East (2004)

Professional associations

• Human Rights Forum, University of Melbourne
• Castan Centre for Human Rights, Law School, Monash University
• Institute of Postcolonial Studies, Melbourne
• Australian Historical Association

Publications

Books

Evans, J., Edward Eyre, race and colonial governance (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2005)

Evans, J., Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples and Political Rights in British Settlements, 1830-1910, [with Patricia Grimshaw, David Philips and Shurlee Swain], (Manchester: Manchester University Press: 2003)

Evans, J., (ed) Writing Colonial Histories: Comparative Perspectives [contributing editor, with Tracey Banivanua Mar]  (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing: 2002)

Chapters in books

Evans, J.,  ‘How white she was!’: race, gender and global capital in the life and times of Beatrice Grimshaw’ in P. Grimshaw and R. McGregor (eds), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne / RMIT Publishing, 2006)

Evans, J.,  'The rule of law in the settler-colonial encounter: the case of Western Australia' in P. Brand, K. Costello and W.N. Osborough (eds), Adventures of the Law: Proceedings of the British Legal History Conference, Dublin, 2003 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005: 161–176)

Evans, J.,  'Colonialism and the rule of law: the case of South Australia' in G. Dunstall and B. Godfrey (eds), Crime and Empire 1840-1940: : Criminal justice in global and local context, (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005: 57-75)

Evans, J., 'The Formulation of Privilege and Exclusion in Settler States: Land, Law, Political Rights and Indigenous Peoples in 19th- century Australia and Natal' in M. Langton, M. Tehan and L. Palmer (eds). Honour Among Nations?  Treaties and Agreements with Indigenous Peoples (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing, 2004)

Journal articles

Evans, J.,   ‘Essays in Honour of Patricia Grimshaw: Teacher,  Scholar, Colleague, Friend’ in Australian Feminist Studies, v. 22, No. 52, March 2007, 37-42.

Evans, J.,   ‘Caring For Country: Yuwalaraay Women and Attachments to Land on an Australian Colonial Frontier’ [with Patricia Grimshaw and Ann Standish] Journal of Women’s History (September 2003): 1-30

Evans, J.,   'Re-reading Edward Eyre: Race, Resistance and Repression in Australia and the Caribbean', Australian Historical Studies, Special Edition, 'Challenging Australian Histories', vol. 24, no. 120 (June 2002): 411-434

Forthcoming