Associate ProfessorHelen Gardner

Helen Gardner completed her PhD thesis in 2000. From 2002 she has lectured in
nineteenth and twentieth century World History and Pacific History at Deakin
University. Helen's research focuses on all aspects of the Pacific Islands.

Her book Gathering for God: George Brown in Oceania, was shortlisted for two
prestigious history awards. She has published on nineteenth century
anthropology, Christian mission, the collection of artifacts, photography,
colonial museums, and decolonisation.  In 2015 she published a book on nineteenth century
Australian and Pacific anthropology titled Southern Anthropology - A History
of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai.    Her interests include
colonialism and post-colonialism in the Pacific. She is active in the Pacific
History Association and is a former chair of the Journal of Pacific
History.

Helen Gardner began her academic career at the University of Otago, New
Zealand, in 2001. In 2002 she was appointed to Deakin University as a
lecturer in World History and Pacific History.
She is currently working with the Institute in the Contemporary History
Group where she leads research into contemporary and historical Pacific
issues. In 2012 she became the external editor of the Journal of Pacific
History and is a former secretary of the Australian Association for the
Advancement of Pacific Studies.


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Helen has led a number of research projects on Christian mission in the Pacific,
the history of anthropology in Oceania and on Decolonisation in Melanesia.

As Helen is now retired, she is no longer available for postgraudate supervision.