Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 2007
Panel: A
Discipline: Geography

Kay Anderson is Professor of Cultural Research at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney. She is a leading scholar in the fields of cultural geography and race historiography. Her most recent book Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Routledge), 2007 won the Gleebooks award for Critical Writing in 2008. She is author of the award-winning Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980 and coeditor of the Handbook of Cultural Geography (Anderson et al., 2003). 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 for the Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier).

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 and in 2009 a Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

• Anderson, K. and Braun, B. (eds) (2008) Essays on Environment (Human Geography Series). London: Ashgate.
• Anderson, K. (2008) Cultural Geography: an account, In The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis, pp. 46-65. Bennett, T. and Frow, J. (eds.). London: Sage.
• Anderson, K. and Perrin, C. (2008) How race became everything: Australia and polygenism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31(5): 962-990.
• Anderson, K. (2008) Race in post-universalist perspective, Cultural Geographies, 15(2): 213-229.
• 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. (2007) Race and the Crisis of Humanism. London: Routledge.

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