Gil Hardwick

Gil Hardwick is a mature-age Honours graduate in Anthropology of the University of Western Australia, majoring in Traditional and Contemporary Aboriginal Studies, Social Historiography, Ethnographic Film, Research Ethics and Fieldwork Methodology. In 1997 following a period of cross-cultural dispute resolution at state government level, he shifted his academic focus from Aboriginal Studies to the early Western Australian colonial period with special emphasis on the Celtic Diaspora and the impact of nineteenth century mass migration. Since then he has written a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and occasional papers on early settlement, and on the social and environmental impacts of colonialism, as well as a revised history of the South West of Western Australia, Castle Dangerous, Hesperian Press 2003, with several short stories for young adults to his credit. He is currently with the Centre for English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, toward a second, graduate degree in Letters.