Dear All,

Happy New Year. Please find below the latest news, opportunities, and publications in Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies 🙂

News:

My sincerest apologies for the very long delay since the publication of the last ACNZSN Newsletter. This was due to me being initially extremely busy preparing to move my family and I to Canada to take up a new academic position there and settling in. But this was unfortunately compounded by my having to deal with what turned out to be an incredibly toxic workplace. The short end of it is I ended up resigning my position, as life is just too short to be in such a miserable situation, especially when there appears to be no end in sight. For anyone interested in reading more about why I resigned I wrote an article on LinkedIn explaining why I left here.

ACNZSN is also extremely sad to announce the passing of Canadian academic Associate Professor Emerita Donna Coates in August 2025. Some of you might recall that ACNZSN’s Donna Coates Book Prize is named in her honour and acknowledges the immense impact she had on the field of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies. But beyond the scholarship that she leaves behind I will miss Donna first and foremost as a friend. We became friends over a decade ago I believe at an academic conference in the UK. We hit it off straightaway and deepened our friendship at several other international conferences in subsequent years. One of the things that I loved most about Donna was her wonderful sense of humour. We laughed together a lot. She was also a great supporter of my work and career, which meant a lot from an academic of her caliber. I am sorry to think that I will not see her at future academic conferences and enjoy a glass of wine or two together. But I will definitely raise a glass to her at the next one that I attend. For any other friends of Donna you can leave a tribute at the following memorial site.

In happier news ACNZSN is extremely pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue: Volume 5 of its Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS). As per usual it features cutting-edge research articles, fascinating reflective and showcasing pieces, as well as a plethora of insightful book reviews. And the best thing is it is open access and not-for-profit.

The Book Reviews Editor of JACANZS, Dr. Jatinder Mann is also looking for reviewers of the following books. If you are interested please contact him via the email address included in the list.

ACNZSN is pleased to announce that submissions for its Donna Coates Book Prize are now open as well. The deadline for submissions is 31 December 2026 and the winner will be announced by 30 June 2027.

Opportunities:

Call for Papers

45th 2026 Annual Australian Historical Association Conference on ‘Changing Minds’, 29 June-3 July 2026, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Deadline: 1 February 2026

Jobs

Open Rank Position in Law (Indigenous and Aboriginal Law) at Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario (ON), Canada

Deadline: 12 January 2026

Assistant Professor in History at Corpus Christi, St. Mark’s College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Deadline: 15 January 2026

Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies at the University of Alberta – Augustana Campus, Camrose, Alberta, Canada

Deadline: 3 February 2026

Assistant Professor in Law and Justice at Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Deadline: 15 February 2026

Canada Research Chair, Tier 2 in Indigenous Education (Language Revitalization and Pedagogy) at Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada

Deadline: 29 March 2026

Scholarships

Ph.D. Scholarship on ‘Representing Rail: Railway Heritage in Transnational Contexts’ Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Deadline: Open until filled

Publications:

David MacDonald and Emily Grafton (Editors), On Settler Colonialism in Canada: Lands and Peoples (University of Regina Press, 2025)

Jennifer Tunnicliffe and Stephanie Bangarth (Editors), Revisiting Human Rights in Canadian History (University of Manitoba Press, 2025)

Tamara A. Small and Royce Koop (Editors), Elections in Canada: People, Players, and Processes (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Ann McGrath and Jackie Huggins (Editors), Deep History: Country and Sovereignty (UNSW Press, 2025)

Anna Green and Megan Hutching (Editors), Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2025)

Ann Curthoys, The Last Tour: Paul and Eslanda Robeson’s visit to Australia and New Zealand (Melbourne University Press, 2025)

Fiona Gatt, Old North Melbourne (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2025)

Bolin Hu, Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the politics of loyalty, 1930s-1940s (Sydney University Press, 2025)

Judith Brett, Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism and Body Politics (Text Publishing, 2025)

Emily Gallagher, Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood (Black Inc., 2025)

Martin Lyons, The Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia (Anthem Press, 2025)

Fay Anderson et al. (Editors), Picturing Citizenship: Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Elizabeth Cox, Mr Ward’s Map: Victorian Wellington street by street (Massey University Press, 2025)

Karen Dubinsky, Strangely Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters (Between the Lines, 2025)

Richard W. Hill Sr. et al. (Editors), Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest-Running Residential School (University of Calgary Press, 2025)

Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross, Challenging Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution (UBC Press, 2025)

Charlotte Macdonald, Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

Annemarie McLaren, Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales 1800—1835: When the Strangers Came to Stay (Oxford University Press, 2025)

Yianni Cartledge, Ikarians in South Australia, 1900—1945 (Anthem Press, 2025)

Kay Whitehead, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Teachers and Australian Settler Colonialism A History (Routledge, 2025)

Carolyn Collins and Paul Sendziuk, Vision and Hope: A history of St Mark’s College, 1925–2025 (UNSW Press, 2025)

Suzanne Morton, Contested Catch: Lobster, Localism, and Canada’s Atlantic Coast, 1870-1970 (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Jim Phillips, I Did Not Commit Adultery: Marital Conflict and the Law in Ontario in the 1870s (University of Toronto Press, 2025)

Martina Horáková, Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Contemporary Australian Memoirs (Anthem Press, 2025)

Sarah Attfield, Class on Page and Stage: The Australian Working Class in Contemporary Literature and Theatre (Peter Lang Publishing, 2025)

Karl Ricker, Writing Now: Australian Settler Colonial Fiction and Middlebrow Culture in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang Publishing, 2025)

Amanda Nettelbeck, Unsettled Subjects: Race, Mobility and Colonial Citizenship in the Australian Settler Colonies (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Gina Wisker (Editor), Margaret Atwood: A New Companion (Peter Lang Publishing, 2025)

Kevin G. Lynch and James R. Mitchell, A New Blueprint for Government: Reshaping Power, the PMO, and the Public Service (University of Regina Press, 2025)

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Living Language Rights: Constitutional Pathways to Indigenous Language Education (University of Manitoba Press, 2025)

Laura Hall, Bloodied Bodies, Bloody Landscape: Settler Colonialism in Horror (University of Regina Press, 2025)

Craig Renney, The Good Economy (Bridget Williams Books, 2025)

Please let me know of any future news, opportunities, and recent publications via email at acnzsn@gmail.com, which I can then include in the bi-monthly newsletter. For ACNZSN to work as well as it can, it will be great to receive contributions from its supporters 🙂 I would also encourage you to subscribe to its blog (so you are able to receive this newsletter directly into your inbox) and follow/or like its social media platforms on Bluesky and Facebook.

Best Wishes,

Dr. Jatinder Mann

Creator and Manager of ACNZSN

Editor-in-chief, JACANZS