Emeritus ProfessorDavid Walker

David Walker is Professor of Australian Studies at Deakin University. He has
research interests in Australian social and cultural history. He is currently
researching Australian perceptions of Asia from the mid-nineteenth century to
the present. The first of three volumes on this subject was published under
the title Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to 1939 by
University of Queensland Press in 1999. The book won the Ernest Scott prize
for History in 2001. Anxious Nation has been translated into Chinese and
published by China Renmin University Press, Beijing, in 2009. An Indian
edition published by SSS publishing, New Delhi, was published in the same
year. Professor Walker has extensive experience in the development of
Australian Studies programs in PRChina, India, Japan and Indonesia and held
the Distinguished Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at the University of
Copenhagen in their 2010 Spring semester. He is a Visiting Professor in the
School of Foreign Studies, Renmin University, Beijing. His latest book titled
Not Dark Yet, examines sight, memory, family and history and has been
published by Giramondo Publishing in 2011. Essays on this subject have
appeared in Heat Magazine. Professor Walker is a Fellow of the Academy of the
Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. My
Home page Areas of Supervision Australian perceptions of Asia Australian
publishing history Late 19th and 20th century Australian cultural history