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Kay Anderson is Professor of Cultural Research at the CCR. She is a leading, internationally recognised scholar in the fields of Cultural Geography and race historiography. Her most recent book, Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Routledge 2007) won the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Critical Writing and her award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980 (McGill-Queens UP 1991) is now in its 5^th edition. She is co-editor of Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Ashgate 2008) and the Handbook of Cultural Geography (Sage 2002). She was joint editor of the flagship Progress in Human Geography (2000-4), is an editorial board member of various journals including Cultural Geographies, Geographical Research, and City, and section editor on ‘Cultural and Social Geography’ for the recently published Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier 2009).

Professor Anderson was Chair of Cultural Geography at Durham University (UK) until 2003, and in 2004 was elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences for the UK. In 2007, she became an Elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Professor Anderson is involved in several ARC grants:

ARC Discovery 2005- ‘The Humanities Beyond Humanism: Race, Nature and the Human in Australia from Enlightenment to Federation’.
ARC Linkage 2006-, ‘The Art of Engagement: Culture, Commerce, and Community’ (with MCA, Penrith Regional Gallery and Casula Powerhouse).
ARC International Linkage, with The Free University, Germany, 2006-, ‘Open Cities: Cultural Articulations of Citizenship in Berlin and Sydney’.

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Qualifications

1987 PhD (Geography) University of British Columbia, Canada

1977-79 BA Honours (Adelaide)

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Honours and Awards

2009: Appointed Fellow, Institute of Australian Geographers

2009: International Advisory Panel, OpenSpace Research Centre, Department of Geography, Open University, UK

2008: Race and the Crisis of Humanism, NSW Premier's Literary Award for Critical Writing (sponsored by Gleebooks)

2008: Queen's University, Canada, Visiting Women's Scholar Award (February)

2007: Elected Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2007: Distinguished Scholar Award, Ethnic Geography Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

2004: Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences for the UK

1996-7: Visiting Scholarship, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

1996-7: The Smuts Visiting Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies to Cambridge University

1995-6: Senior Research Fellowship, St Peter's College, Oxford

1995-6: Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowships to the University of Oxford

1995: Medal of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia

1993: Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980 was awarded the John Porter Prize of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association

1992: Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980 was chosen as an 'outstanding book' by The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the US.

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Selected Publications

Books

Kitchin, R., Thrift, N., Castree, N., Crang, M., Domosh, M., Anderson, K., Cloke, P., Crampton, J., Graham, B., Hadjimichalis, C., Hubbard, P., Kearns, R., Kwan, M-P., McLafferty, S., Lees, L., Paasi, A., Philo, C., Sidaway, J., Willis, K. & Yeung, H. (eds) 2009, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volumes I-XII, London: Elsevier.

Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (eds) 2008, Environment: Critical Essays in Human Geography, London: Ashgate.

Anderson, K. 2007, Race and the Crisis of Humanism (PDF, 233Kb), London & New York: Routledge.

Anderson, K., Domosh, M., Pile, S. and Thrift, N. (eds) 2002, Handbook of Cultural Geography, London: Sage.

Anderson, K. and Gale, F. (eds) 1992, Inventing Places: Studies in Cultural Geography, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne. Revised and updated version titled Cultural Geographies, Melbourne: Pearson Education.

Anderson, K. 1991, Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980, Montreal and Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press. Reprinted as second edition, 1995, third edition, 1999, fourth edition, 2006, fifth edition, 2008.

Book Chapters

Anderson, K. 2008, 'Cultural Geography: An Account', in Bennett, T. & Frow, J. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis, London: Sage, pp 46-65.

Anderson, K. 2007, ‘Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of 'Human' Geography’, in Wilkie, I., Wilkie, R. & Inglis, D. (eds), 2006, Animals and Society: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences, London: Routledge, pp 181-212. [Reprint of 1995 Transactions, Institute of British Geographers article].

Anderson, K., Fincher, R. & Jacobs, J. 2002, 'Rescripting Cities with Difference', in Eade, J. (ed.), The Urban Studies Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, pp 27-48.

Anderson, K. 2001, 'The Nature of Race', in Castree, N. & Braun, B. (eds), Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Politics, Oxford: Blackwell, pp 64-83.

Anderson, K. 1999, 'Reflections on Aboriginal Redfern', in Stratford, E. (ed.), Australian Cultural Geography: A Reader, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp 67-84.

Anderson, K. 1998, 'Sites of Difference: Beyond a Cultural Politics of Race Polarity', in Fincher, R. & Jacobs, J. M. (eds), Cities of Difference, New York: Guilford, pp 201-225.

Anderson, K. 1996, 'Engendering Race Research', in Duncan, N. (ed.), Bodyspace: Destabilising Geographies of Gender and Sexuality, London & New York: Routledge, pp 197-211.

Anderson, K. 1993, 'Aboriginal Redfern: Constructions of Race and Place', in Jackson, P. and Penrose, J. (eds), Constructions of Race and Place, London: University College London Press, pp 81-100.

Anderson, K. 1993, 'Otherness, Culture and Capital: Chinatown's Transformation under Australian Multiculturalism' in Clark, G., Francis, R. & Forbes, D. (eds), Multiculturalism: Postmodernism, Image and Text, Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, pp 58-74.

Journal Articles

Anderson, K. & Perrin, C. 2009, 'Thinking with the Head: Race, Humanism and Craniometry', Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(1): 83-98.

Anderson, K. 2008, 'Gwendoline Fay Gale AO, Obituary', Geographical Research, 46(4): 468-70.

Anderson, K. 2008, 'Race in Post-Universalist Perspective', Cultural Geographies, 15(2): 155-171.

Allon, F., Anderson, K. and Bushell, R. 2008, ‘Mutant Mobilities: Backpacker Tourism in Global Sydney’, Mobilities, 3(1): 73-94.

Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. 2008, 'Beyond Savagery: The Limits of Australian 'Aboriginalism'', Cultural Studies Review, 14(2): 147–169.

Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. 2008, 'How Race Became Everything: Australia and Polygenism', Ethnic & Racial Studies, 31(5): 962-990.

Anderson, K. 2008, 'Book Review Symposium: Anderson, K. 2006: Race and the Crisis of Humanism. London: Routledge', Progress in Human Geography, 32(3): 463-467.

Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. 2007, '‘The Miserablest People in the World’: Race, Humanism, and the Australian Aborigine', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 18(1): 19-39.

Anderson, K. 2005, 'Griffith Taylor Lecture of NSW Geographical Society 2004: The Australian State of Nature/Native', Australian Geographer, 36(3): 267-282.

Anderson, K. and Taylor, A. 2005, 'Exclusionary Politics and the Question of National Belonging: Australian Ethnicities in Multi-Scalar Focus', Ethnicities, 5(4): 461-485.

Anderson, K. 2003, 'White Natures: Sydney’s Royal Agricultural Show in Post-Humanist Perspective', Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 28: 422-441.

Anderson, K. and Smith, S. 2001, 'Emotional geographies', Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 26(1): 7-10.

Anderson K. 2000, ''The Beast within': Race, humanity and animality', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 18: 301-320.

Anderson, K. 2000, 'Thinking Post-Nationally: Dialogue across Multicultural, Indigenous and Settler Spaces', Annals, Association of American Geographers, 90(2): 381-391 (invited refereed paper for millennial issue).

Anderson, K. 1998, 'Science and the Savage: The Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1874-1900', Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene: International Journal of Culture, Environment and Meaning), 5(2): 125-143.

Anderson, K. and Jacobs, J. 1997, 'From Urban Aborigines to Aboriginality and the City: One Path through the History of Australian Cultural Geography', Australian Geographical Studies, 35(1): 12-22.

Anderson, K. 1995, 'Culture and Nature at the Adelaide Zoo: At the Frontiers of 'Human' Geography', Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 20(3): 275-94.

Anderson, K. 1993, 'Place Narratives and the Origins of Inner Sydney's Aboriginal Settlement, 1972-73', Journal of Historical Geography, 19(3): 314-335.

Anderson, K. 1990, 'Chinatown Re-oriented: A Critical Analysis of Redevelopment Schemes in a Melbourne and Sydney Enclave', Australian Geographical Studies, 28(2): 137-154.

Anderson, K. 1988, 'Cultural Hegemony and the Race Definition Process in Vancouver's Chinatown: 1880-1980', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 6(2): 127-149. Reprinted in Hamnett, C. (ed.), 1996, Social Geography: A Reader, London: Arnold, pp 209-234.

Anderson, K. 1987, 'The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category', Annals Association of American Geographers, 77(4): 580-598. Reprinted in McKay, I. (ed.), 1992, A Daunting Modernity: A Reader in Post-Confederation Canada, Ontario: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, pp 156-186.