By Emeritus Professor Grace Elizabeth Karskens

Journal articles

Karskens GE; Gaynor A; Dovers S; Mullins S; Brown S; Goodall H; Frawley J, 2008, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', History Australia, 5, pp. 1 - 24

Karskens GE, 2008, 'Review of Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Closing Hell’s Gates: The Death of a Convict Station', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 13, pp. 155 - 156

Karskens GE, 2007, 'Water dreams, earthen histories: Exploring urban environmental history at the Penrith Lakes Scheme and Castlereagh, Sydney', Environment and History, 13, pp. 115 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734007780473555

Karskens GE, 2007, 'Review of an exhibition at Museum of Sydney: `Bridging Sydney`', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, 2, pp. 1 - 2, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_2_no2/exhibition_reviews/bridging_sydney/

Karskens GE, 2006, 'Nefarious Geographies: Convicts and the Early Sydney Environment', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 11, pp. 15 - 27, http://search.informit.com.au.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/fullText;dn=200704599;res=APAFT

Karskens GE, 2006, 'Resurrecting Chapman', Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 18, pp. 8 - 21

Karskens GE, 2005, '`This spirit of emigration`: the nature and meanings of escape in early New South Wales', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 7, pp. 1 - 34

Karskens GE, 2005, 'Review of Pat Jalland, Australian ways of death: A social and cultural history 1840-1918', Journal of Religious History, 29, pp. 200 - 202

Karskens GE, 2005, 'Review of Seamus O’Hanlon, Together apart: Boarding house, hostel and flat life in pre-war Melbourne', Australian Historical Studies, 37, pp. 178 - 179

Karskens GE, 2005, 'Together apart: Boarding house, hostel and flat life in pre-war Melbourne', Australian Historical Studies, 37, pp. 178 - 179

Karskens GE, 2004, 'Review of Anthony Scott, Tuggerah Lakes – way back when.', Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 84

Lawrence S; Karskens G, 2003, 'Historical archaeology in the antipodes', Historical Archaeology, 37, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03376588

Lawrence S; Karskens G, 2003, 'Historical archaeology in the Antipodes - Introduction', HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 37, pp. 1 - 5, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000181211100001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Karskens GE, 2003, 'Raising the dead: attitudes to European human remains in the Sydney region c1840-2000', Islands of Vanishment - Historic Environment, 17, pp. 42 - 48

Karskens GE, 2003, 'Revisiting the world view: the archaeology of convist households in Sydney`s Rocks neighbourhood', Historical Archaeology, 37, pp. 34 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF03376591

Karskens GE, 2003, 'Tourists and pilgrims: (re)visiting the Rocks', Journal of Australian Studies, 79, pp. 29 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050309387885

Karskens GE, 2002, 'Engaging artefacts: urban archaeology, museums and the origins of Sydney', Humanities Research, IX, pp. 36 - 56

Karskens GE, 2002, 'Frontier conflict conference, National Museum of Australia', Phanfare, 186, pp. 3 - 4

Karskens GE, 2002, 'Islands of vanishment, Port Arthur - Conference report', Phanfare, 190, pp. 9 - 10

Karskens GE, 2002, 'Tales of Sydney and the telling of Sydney histories', Journal of Urban History, 28, pp. 778 - 792

Karskens GE, 2001, 'Voices from the Harbour’s Edge: Memory, Place and the Heritage of Modernity', The Central Coast Geographer, 8, pp. 39 - 47

Karskens GE, 2001, 'Banished and reclaimed', Meanjin, pp. 26 - 43

Karskens GE, 2001, 'Review of Marc Serge Riviere (translator and editor), The Governor's Noble Guest: Hyacinthe de Bougainville's Account of Port Jackson 1825', Journal of Australian Colonial History

Karskens GE, 2000, 'Engaging artefacts: urban archaeology, museums and the origins of Sydney', Tasmanian Historical Studies, pp. 39 - 64

Karskens GE, 2000, 'Review of Andrew Brown-May, Melbourne Street Life', Australian Historical Studies, 114, http://web.b.ebscohost.com.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=e989e99b-bed1-4559-ac61-5bd0c7765a77@sessionmgr105&hid=125&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=3036286&db=30h

Karskens GE; Mackay R, 1999, 'Historical archaeology in Australia: historical or hysterical? Crisis or creative awakening:', Australasian Historical Archaeology, 17, pp. 110 - 115

Karskens GE, 1998, 'Death was in his Face: Dying, Burial and Remembrance in Early Sydney', Labour History: a journal of labour and social history, 74, pp. 21 - 39

Karskens G, 1997, 'The dialogue of townscape: The rocks and Sydney, 1788-1820', Australian Historical Studies, 27, pp. 88 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10314619708596029

Karskens GE, 1997, 'Crossing Over: Reflections of the Integration of History and Archaeology at the Cumberland/Gloucester Street Site, the Rocks 1994-1996', Public History Review, 5-6, pp. 30 - 48

Karskens GE, 1995, '`Declining Life: On the Rocks in Sydney'', Australian Cultural History, 14, pp. 63 - 75

Karskens GE, 1992, 'Public History, Academic History: The Common Ground', Public History Review, 1, pp. 14 - 25

Karskens GE; Thorp W, 1992, 'Archaeology and History in Sydney: Towards Integration and Interpretation', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 78, pp. 52 - 75

Karskens GE, 1987, 'Kirribilli House Bathing Pool and Early Harbourside Pools in Sydney : A Brief Overview', Australian Society for Historical Archaeology Newsletter - Research Bulletin, pp. 3 - 4

Karskens GE, 1986, 'Defiance, Deference and Diligence: Three Views of Convicts in N.S.W. Road Gangs', Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, 4, pp. 17 - 28, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29543160?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Karskens GE, 1985, 'The Construction of the Great North Road N.S.W., 1826-1936 October, 1985, 102-111', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers - Multidisciplinary, GE 9, pp. 102 - 111

Karskens GE, 1984, 'The Convict Road Station Site at Wisemans Ferry : An Historical and Archaeological Investigation', Australian Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2, pp. 17 - 26

Karskens GE, 1982, 'As good as any in England - The background to the construction of the Great North Road, N.S.W.', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 68, pp. 192 - 204

Conference Papers

Karskens GE, 2006, 'Urban People, Urban Places, Urban Resilience: A paper in honour of Pat Troy', in Vulnerability in Australian Cities: Towards Sustainability and Security, Brisbane, pp. 1 - 20, presented at Vulnerability in Australian Cities: A Symposium in Honour of Pat Troy, Brisbane, 05 May 2006 - 05 May 2006, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237620475_Delivered_at_Vulnerability_on_Australian_Cities_Towards_Sustainability_and_Security_a_Public_Symposium_Brisbane_5_May_2006

Karskens GE, 2005, 'State of Australian Cities Environment Stream: Rapporteur's Report', in State of Australian Cities 2005, Urban Research Program, Griffith University, Brisbane, pp. 1 - 5, presented at State of Australian Cities 2005, Brisbane, 30 November 2005 - 02 December 2005, https://www.griffith.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/81383/environmental-city-rapporteur-report.pdf

Karskens G; Kimber J; Scates B, 2003, 'Contested Histories : a Forum Discussion of Keith Windschuttle's Recent Work', in Labour History, pp. 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/27515934

Karskens GE, 2003, 'The Sydney Gazette and early Sydney: exploring the 'lived' town', in Kirkpatrick R (ed.), Papers from the Australian Newspaper Press Bicentenary Symposium, Australian Newspaper History Group and State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, pp. 34 - 50, presented at Australian Newspaper Press Bicentenary Symposium, Sydney, -

Karskens GE, 2001, 'Crucial Fragments: Archives and Urban Social History', in Proceedings of the Convergence: Joint National Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists and Records Management Association of Australia, NSW Society of Archivists and Records Managements Association of Australia, Hobart, September 2001, presented at Convergence: Joint National Conference of the Australian Society of Archivists and Records Management Association of Australia, Hobart, September 2001, -

Karskens GE, 1987, 'We Thought it was Fantastic! Concord, Sydney in the 1920s', in Bairstow D (ed.), Archaeology of Colonisation: Australia in the World Context, Australian Society for Historical Archaeology, Sydney, pp. 187 - 201, presented at Australian Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Sydney, -

Reports

Karskens GE, 1999, The Cumberland/Gloucester Streets Site, The Rocks: Archaeological Investigation Report Volume 2 New Perspectives from the Rocks (Main Report), Godden Mackay Logan P/L, Sydney, 1

Creative Written Works

Karskens G, 2019, ‘Life and death on Dyarubbin: reports from the river’, Griffith Review, Hay A, (ed.)

Karskens G, 2019, Nah Doongh's Song, Australian Book Review, https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/371-august-2019-no-413/5667-2019-calibre-essay-prize-winner-nah-doongh-s-song-by-grace-karskens

Other

Karskens G, 2021, Dyarubbin: Mapping Aboriginal History, Culture and Stories on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Spatial Services, NSW Department of Commercial Services and Geographic Names Board of New South Wales, online, https://arcg.is/0O4i19

Karskens G; Burnett G; Ross S, 2019, Traces in a lost landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites, Dyarubbin/Nepean River and contiguous areas, NSW, Australia (Data Paper), http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/IA.52.8

Spedding J (ed.), 2015, Appin Massacre, Dictionary of Sydney - NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Aboriginal Heritage Project,, Sydney, http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/appin_massacre

Karskens GE, 2015, Barangaroo and the Eora Fisherwomen, Dictionary of Sydney - Cultural Ribbon Foreshores History Project, Sydney, http://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/barangaroo_and_the_eora_fisherwomen

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