- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0014
Ryan, Lyndall
(1943 – )- Nationality Australian
- Born 14 April, 1943, Paddington New South Wales Australia
- Occupation Academic, Educator, Feminist, Historian
Summary
Lyndall Ryan was a member of the first Sydney Women’s Liberation Group in 1970. In 1974 she joined the Commonwealth Public Service as a policy analyst on women’s health and child care. She became an academic in 1977 and has held positions in Australian Studies and Women’s Studies at Griffith and Flinders Universities. She was appointed to the position of Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle in 1998.
Details
The daughter of Edna Ryan and a committed feminist, Lyndall Ryan was one of the early wave of scholars who examined the extent of violence perpetrated against Aboriginal people by white colonisers. Her book The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981 and based on her 1975 PhD thesis, presented a critical interpretation of the early history of relations between Tasmanian Aborigines and white settlers in Tasmania. A second edition was published by Allen & Unwin in 1996, in which she brought the story of the Tasmanian Aborigines in the 20th century up to date.
Her scholarship since then has continued to confront this violent past. In 2013, she led a team of scholars in a four year project to map the frontier massacres in Eastern Australia, a project funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant investigating Violence on the Australian Colonial Frontier, 1788-1960.
Events
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1977 - 1986
Comparative Social History and Australian Studies, Griffith University.
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer -
1986 - 1998
Women’s Studies, Flinders University.
Reader/Professor -
1998 - 2005
Australian Studies, University of Newcastle.
Foundation Professor -
1984 - 1986
Queensland Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation.
Chair -
1996 - 1998
South Australian Committee, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
Member -
1999 - 2003
School of Humanities, University of Newcastle
Head -
2004 - 2005
School of Humanities, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah Campus.
Director of Research -
1973 - 1974
Leichardt Women’s Community Health Centre.
Founding Collective Member -
1974 - 1976
Policy Analysist, Priorities Review Staff and Women’s Affairs Branch, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra.
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1977 - 1977
Australian History, Australian National University, Canberra.
Tutor -
1970 - 1970
First Sydney Women’s Liberation Group.
Member -
1971 - 1971
Mejane
Founding Collective Member -
1972 - 1972
Refractory Girl
Founding Collective Member -
2018 - 2018
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Fellow - 2019 - 2019
Published resources
- Book
- Journal
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Resource
- Trove: Ryan, Lyndall (1943-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-763054
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Site Exhibition
- From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
Archival resources
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National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Correspondence of Warren Osmond and Lyndall Ryan, 1972-1996 (bulk 1974-1982) [manuscript]
- Papers of Julia Ryan, 1947-1982 [manuscript]
- Waterloo creek: the Australia Day massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British conquest of New South Wales (Melbourne: Penguin, 1992)
- Papers of Manning Clark, 1907-1992 [manuscript]
- Papers of Dymphna Clark, circa 1930-2000 [manuscript]
- Papers of Lyndall Ryan, 1968-1992 [manuscript]
- National Library of Australia
- National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
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