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Elena Govor, Diploma (Hons), (Minsk Institute of Culture, USSR), PhD (ANU)
Research Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History
Email: elena.govor@anu.edu.au
Biographical Statement
I am currently writing a book ‘Twelve Russian Days at Nuku-Hiva’ about the visit of the first Russian expedition to Marquesas Islands in 1804.
Since 2006 I work on the collaborative ARC-funded project "European Naturalists and the Constitution of Human Difference in Oceania: Crosscultural Encounters and the Science of Race, 1768-1888" studying materials of the Russian voyagers in Oceania and Miklouho-Maclay’s heritage.
Research Interests
Ethnohistory of Nuku-Hiva; Russian studies of Nuku-Hiva in 1804; Russian voyages in Oceania, history of science of race in Russia; Russian sources on South Pacific; Miklouho-Maclay visit to New Hebrides (Vanuatu) in 1879; Russian Anzacs; history of early Russian immigration in Australia; database of early Russian immigrants in Australia.
Key Publications
- Bibliografiia Avstralii [Bibliography of Australia] (1710-1983), Nauka, Moscow, 1985. Partly translated as Russian Sources on Australia, 1788-1990, St. Lucia, Brisbane, 1993.
- Rossiiskie moriaki i puteshestvenniki v Avstralii [Russian Sailors and Travellers in Australia], Nauka, Moscow, 1993 (with A. Massov).
- Australia in the Russian Mirror, Changing Perceptions, 1770-1919, MUP, Melbourne, 1997.
- My Dark Brother: the Story of the Illins, a Russian-Aboriginal Family, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2000.
- 'Russians and the Australian Aborigines (200 Years of Observation, Research and Speculation)', in A. Anderson, I. Lilley, S. O'Connor (eds), Histories of Old Ages. Essays in Honour of Rhys Jones, Pandanus books, Canberra, 123-132, 2001.
- 'Speckled Bodies': Russian Voyagers and Nuku Hivans, 1804. - In: N. Thomas et al (eds), Tattoo. Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West, London, Reaktion Books, 2005, pp. 53-71, ills
- Russian Anzacs in Australian
History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005.
Career Highlights
Research Scholar, Department of South Pacific Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow (1989-1990); PhD Scholar, ANU (1991-1996), Lecturer and tutor in Russian, MEL, ANU (1992-1996), Visiting Scholar, AIATSIS (1997-2000); Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, ANU (2002-2004).
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