Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 2005
Panel: C
Discipline: History

Professor Peggy Brock

Professor of Colonial and Indigenous Studies
School of International, Cultural and Community Studies
Edith Cowan University

Brock, Peggy. BA (Hons), Dip.Ed, PhD (Adelaide)

Professor Peggy Brock is Professor of Colonial and Indigenous History at Edith Cowan University. Her research interests focus on colonial history in Australia, the Pacific and Canada; Christian missions and religious change; anthropologists and Indigenous people.

Recent research includes:

  • Colonial history in central Australia and British Columbia
  • The process of religious change in mission environments

Key publications

  • P. Brock (2008) Two-way food: bush tucker and Whitefella food, Journal of Australian Studies 32(1).
  • P. Brock (2007) Nakedness and clothing in early encounters between Aboriginal people of central Australia, missionaries and anthropologists, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.
  • P. Brock (2005) New Christians as evangelists, In Missions and Colonialism. N. Etherington (eds.). Oxford: OUP.
  • P. Brock (2005) Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
  • P. Brock (2004) Skirmishes in Aboriginal History, Aboriginal History 28.


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