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Professor Peter Read

The University of Sydney
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Peter Read is a Professor of Aboriginal history, oral history, biography and place within the Department of History, in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) at the University of Sydney.  Professor Read holds a PhD from ANU, where he worked for the majority of his professional life.  Professor Read has held research fellowships in Urban Studies, ARC Research Fellowships and Senior Research Fellowships, and was previously the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies. Professor Peter Read is currently working on A History of Aboriginal Sydney, with a focus on returning historical materials and information back to the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities of the Sydney region through the multimedia website http://www.historyofaboriginalsydney.edu.au/.  Peter Read also has an interest in the writing of biography, and memorialisation in Latin America after state terror, with a geographic focus on the histories of Chile and Argentina.

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Postal Address:
<p> Department of History<br /> School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)<br /> The University of Sydney<br /> NSW 2006</p>

peter.read@usyd.edu.au
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/history/staff/profiles/read.shtml

Ph: 61 2 9351 2877