Sarah Maddison

Sarah Maddison CF is an Australian author and political scientist.

Education

Maddison has a PhD in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.[1]

Career

She is a former director of GetUp! and the 2018–19 president of the Australian Political Studies Association. She was awarded a very large grant from the SEROS Foundation which was withdrawn under unclear circumstances.^[citation needed]^[when?]

Maddison has also co-authored two editions of a textbook for students of Australian public policy.^[citation needed]

She has been an ARC Discovery Project grant recipient for three completed projects, one considering new possibilities for Indigenous representation (DP0877157), and another considering the evolution of social movements through a study of the Australian women’s movement (DP0878688 with Professor Marian Sawer, ANU), which produced the edited collection The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective. The third project 2014, undertaken with colleagues in Melbourne and Canada, explored non-Indigenous attitudes to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, through focus group research around the country.^[citation needed]

In 2010 Maddison was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to undertake a four-year, four-country comparative study of reconciliation and conflict transformation in Australia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and Guatemala. A book analysing the results from this research was published in 2015.^[citation needed]

Recognition

She was awarded the 2005 Jean Martin Award by The Australian Sociological Association for her PhD thesis, Collective identity and Australian Feminist Activism: conceptualising a third wave, which examined the role of young women in contemporary Australian women's movements.[1]

In 2009 she was joint winner of the Australian Political Science Association Henry Mayer Award for her book Black Politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture. In 2009 she was also part of the Sydney Leadership Program run by Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society.[2]

Maddison received a 2009 Churchill Fellowship to study models of Indigenous representation in the United States and Canada in 2010.^[citation needed]

Interests and current role

Maddison's research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous politics, agonistic democracy, dialogue, and Australian social movements, including research on the Indigenous rights movement and the women’s movement.^[citation needed]

She is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she also co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration.^[when?]^[citation needed]

Publications

• Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge And Creative Tension in Social Movements, with Sean Scalmer. UNSW Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-86840-686-2
• Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government Is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate, edited with Clive Hamilton. Allen & Unwin, 2007. ISBN 978-1-74175-101-7
• Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture. Allen & Unwin Australia, 2009. ISBN 978-1-74175-698-2
• An Introduction to Australian Public Policy, second edition, with Richard Denniss. Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 9781107658257
• Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous Settler-State Governance, edited with Morgan Brigg. Federation, 2011. ISBN 978-1-86287-826-6
• Beyond White Guilt: The real challenge for Black-White relations in Australia. Allen & Unwin, 2011. ISBN 978-1-74237-328-7
• The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective, edited with Marian Sawer, Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0415830904*
• Conflict transformation and reconciliation: Multi-level challenges in deeply divided societies, Routledge, 2015 ISBN 978-113-80-7137-7
• The limits of settler-colonial reconciliation, edited with Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa, Springer, 2016. ISBN 978-981-10-2654-6
• The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems, Allen & Unwin, 2019. ISBN 978-176-02-9582-0

References

1. Maddison scoops sociological award Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine. UNSW News. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
2. "Australia's first charity". www.benevolent.org.au. Retrieved 2 July 2020.