By Emeritus Professor Grace Elizabeth Karskens

Journal articles

Karskens G, 2024, 'Kurringy (c. 1798–c. 1870)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ADB19

Karskens G, 2022, 'Nourishing terrain: Gardens and the colonisation of Australia', Australian Garden History, 33, pp. 4 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.3316/informit.224503003126370

Karskens G; Ross S; Burnett G, 2019, '‘Traces in a Lost Landscape: Aboriginal archaeological sites – Nepean River and contiguous areas NSW'', Internet Archaeology, 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.11141/ia.52.8

Karskens G; McKenna M, 2019, 'Nah Doongh's Song: Grace Karskens and Mark McKenna in conversation', Aboriginal History, 43, pp. 57 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/AH.43.2019.03

Parkes R; Ross S; Sobotkova A; Evans T; Crook P; Lupack S; Karskens G; Leslie F; Merson J, 2018, '‘Ruined Castle Shale Mining Settlement, Katoomba NSW: Report on a Pilot Survey’', Australasian historical archaeology : journal of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, 36, pp. 86 - 92

Karskens G, 2018, 'Correspondence, Mark McKenna’s, ‘Moment of Truth: History and Australia’s Future’', Quarterly Essay, pp. 112 - 114

Karskens GE, 2018, 'Fire in the forests? Exploring the human-ecological history of Australia’s first frontier', Environment and History, 25, pp. 391 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734018X15254461646378

Karskens G, 2017, 'Phillip and the Eora: Governing race relations in the colony of New South Wales', Sydney Journal, 5, pp. 39 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v5i1.5728

Karskens GE, 2017, 'Phillip and the Eora: Governing race in New South Wales', The Sydney Journal, 5, pp. 39 - 55, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/sydney_journal/issue/view/419/showToc

Karskens GE, 2017, 'Review of Liz Connor, Skin Deep: settler impressions of Aboriginal women’', The American Historical Review, 122, pp. 1597 - 1598, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.5.1597

Karskens GE, 2016, 'Floods and Flood-mindedness in Early Colonial Australia', Environmental History, 21, pp. 315 - 342, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emv186

Karskens GE, 2015, 'The Governor and his convict architect: Alisdair McGregor’s A forger’s progress and Luke Slattery’s The First Dismissal', Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-governor-and-his-convict-architect-20150124-12wkbq.html

Karskens GE, 2014, 'The Blue Mountains Crossings: New Histories from the Old Legends', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 16, pp. 197 - 225, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=449772476836297;res=IELHSS

Gentry K; Fullagar K; Leppard-Quinn C; Karskens G; Akeroyd C, 2014, 'Exhibition Reviews', History Australia, 11, pp. 240 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668524

Gentry K; Fullager K; Leppard-Quinn C; Karskens G; Akeroyd C, 2014, 'Exhibition Reviews: A spectre haunting William Street: Nicole Foreshew, born in darkness before dawn.', History Australia, 11, pp. 240 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2014.11668524

Karskens GE, 2013, 'The settler evolution: space, place and memory in early colonial Australia', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 13, pp. 1 - 21, http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/jasal/index

Karskens GE, 2013, 'All that is Solid: Castlereagh 1999', RCC Perspectives, pp. 9 - 12, http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/publications/perspectives_mainpage/2013_perspectives/index.html

Karskens GE, 2013, 'Seeking Sydney from the ground up: foundations and horizons in Sydney's history', Sydney Journal, 4, pp. 180 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v4i1.3795

Karskens GE, 2011, 'Review of Alan Frost, Botany Bay: The Real Story, in Sydney Morning Herald, 19-20 February, 2011', Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/botany-bay-the-real-story-20110222-1b3n3.html

Karskens GE, 2011, 'What is a gentleman to do? Penny Russell’s Savage or Civilised? and Lucy Sussex’s, Saltwater in the Ink', Australian Literary Review

Karskens GE, 2011, '‘Red coats, blue jackets, black skin: Aboriginal men and clothing in the early colonial New South Wales’', Aboriginal History, 35, pp. 1 - 36

Karskens GE, 2011, 'Archival Riches: Review of Anna Johnston, The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales', Australian Book Review, pp. 67 - 68, https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/about/59-october-2011/541-anna-johnston-the-paper-war?tmpl=component&print=1

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Barangaroo, a woman worth remembering', Sydney Morning Herald, http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/barangaroo-a-woman-worth-remembering-20100305-pot6.html

Karskens GE; Waterhouse R, 2010, ''Too sacred to be taken away': Property, Liberty, Tyranny and the 'Rum Rebellion'', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 12, pp. 1 - 22

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Review of Craig Wilcox, Red Coat Dreaming: How colonial Australia embraced the British Army', ReCollections (Canberra), 5, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_5_no_2/book_reviews/red_coat_dreaming

Karskens GE, 2010, 'Review of Tiffany Shellam, Shaking hands on the fringes', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 96, pp. 103 - 105, http://web.b.ebscohost.com.wwwproxy0.library.unsw.edu.au/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=7d9fc9f0-3ee7-4087-890d-5f18cdfdfc31@sessionmgr105&hid=125&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=51203317&db=30h

Karskens G, 2009, 'The melbourne story', ReCollections, 4

Karskens GE, 2009, 'The Rocks', The Sydney Journal, 2, pp. 117 - 123

Karskens GE, 2009, 'Review of ‘The Melbourne Story’ exhibition, Museum of Victoria', ReCollections (Canberra), 4, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_4_no_2/exhibition_reviews/the_melbourne_story/

Brown S; Dovers S; Frawley J; Gaynor A; Goodall H; Karskens G; Mullins S, 2008, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', History Australia, 5, pp. 03.1 - 03.24, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha080003

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

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