Dr Jatinder Mann
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: jatinder.mann@kcl.ac.uk
Website: kcl.academia.edu/JatinderMann
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 7348
Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI)
King's College London
Strand, London
WC2R 2LS
Research Interests
• Transnational and comparative history and politics
• The history of the British World
• Australian and Canadian cultural, intellectual, political and social history
• Australian diplomatic and military history
• Legal history
• Citizenship
• Immigration
• Multiculturalism
• Nationalism
Biography
Dr. Jatinder Mann joined the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2012. He is also an Associate Fellow in Canadian Studies at the UCL Institute of the Americas. Dr. Mann has published articles in Nations and Nationalism and Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, and has a forthcoming one in the Australian Journal of Politics and History. He was awarded his doctorate in history at The University of Sydney, Australia’s oldest university, in 2011 for his thesis entitled 'The search for a new national identity: A comparative study of the rise of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s'. Dr. Mann was also a recipient of the prestigious Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) by the Australian government and an International Postgraduate Award (IPA) by The University of Sydney for his doctoral research. Previously he completed an MA in Australian studies at King's College London; and a BA in history at University College London, with First Class Honours.
Research
Dr. Mann is in charge of the day-to-day running of the United Kingdom (UK) end of a major collaborative research project with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Australia on ‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’. He has carried out the vast majority of the British archival research. Dr. Mann has also organised the Australian research so as to make it consistent with that carried out in the UK. He has supervised a temporary Research Assistant on the project, and is currently supervising a permanent Research Assistant who will work on the project until its completion. Ultimately Dr. Mann will be a co-editor in the production of a volume of DFAT’s Documents on Australian Foreign Policy on War and Peace, 1914-1919.
Selected Publications
Books
Documents on Australian Foreign Policy on War and Peace, 1914-1919 – contracted with DFAT in Australia to be a co-editor in the production of the volume. The book is expected to be published in early 2015.
Articles:
‘“Leavening British traditions”: Integration policy in Australia, 1962-1972’. Australian Journal of Politics and History, forthcoming.
‘The introduction of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1960s-1970s’. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 18, no. 3, July 2012. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2012.00553.x: 483-503.
‘The evolution of Commonwealth citizenship, 1945-48 in Canada, Britain and Australia’. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (CCP), vol. 50, no. 3, July 2012. DOI:10.1080/14662043.2012.692923: 293-313.
‘Australian foreign policy in historical context: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’. Lowy Lecture Series, November 2012, Lowy Institute for International Policy website.
‘Home or Away? My experiences as a student in Australia’. Australian Studies, forthcoming.
'Images of Canada Abroad'. How the world sees Canada, part 2 of series, CBC News website, 1 July, 2012.
Conference Publications:
‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework” and “A cohesive, united, multicultural nation”: Multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1970s – the present’ in Harbon, Lesley and Woodrow, Lindy (Editors). Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China. 21-22 November 2011. Conference Proceedings. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, December 2011. ISBN 9781742102610: 13-18.
Chapters:
‘Brief Chronology’ in Programme for Witness Seminar on British High Commission in Canberra, British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 8 November, 2012.
Book reviews:
Book review on Elke Winter, Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011). British Journal of Canadian Studies (BJCS), forthcoming.
Various book reviews in Reviews in Australian Studies (RAS), an online journal on the National Library of Australia (NLA) website.
Book review on James Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Australian Studies, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 2004).
Papers Presented
‘An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, KCL, UK, 12 December, 2012
‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19: Undertaking a major collaborative documents-based research project’, Making Public Histories Series, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, 6 December, 2012
‘“Retaining migrant cultures” and “Leavening British traditions”: A comparison of integration policies in Canada and Australia, 1950s-1970s’, International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Biennial Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 5 December, 2012
‘An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia, 4 December, 2012 (Co-presented with Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno)
‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19: Undertaking a major collaborative documents-based research project’, Speakers Corner Series, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia, 28 November, 2012
‘An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society Special Seminar, The University of New South Wales (UNSW) at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Canberra, Australia, 27 November, 2012 (Co-presented with Dr. David Lee)
‘An Australian foreign policy? Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, School of History 2012 Special Seminar, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, 26 November, 2012 (Co-presented with Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno)
‘Australian foreign policy in historical context: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Lowy Lecture Series,Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney, Australia, 22 November, 2012
‘An Australian foreign policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 21 November, 2012 (Co-presented with Dr. David Lee)
‘“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation policy in Canada, 1890s-1950s’, UCL-IA 2012/13 Canadian Studies Seminar Series, London, UK, 16 October, 2012
‘“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation policy in Canada, 1890s-1950s’, The Centre of Canadian Studies 2012/13 Open Research Seminar Series, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 27 September, 2012
‘Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19’, Australian Studies Panel - European Australian Studies Centre Link, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, 10 September, 2012
‘The abandonment of multiculturalism in Europe? Lessons to be learned from multicultural policies in Australia and Canada’, University of Surrey Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), Department of Politics, 8th Annual Conference, Joint international multidisciplinary conference with Migration Research Unit (MRU), University College London (UCL) and University of Roehampton, UK, The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 27 June, 2012
‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’, Reappraising the First World War Seminar, Imperial War Museum London, 21 June, 2012 (Co-presented with Prof. Carl Bridge)
‘An opportunity to endeavour’, Special Guest Speaker, European Endeavour Alumni Reception, Australian Ambassador to Belgium-Luxembourg and Australian Mission to EU’s Residence, Brussels, Belgium, 19 June, 2012
‘The evolution of Commonwealth Citizenship, 1945-48: The Canadian Citizenship Act; the British Nationality Act; and the British Nationality and Australian Citizenship Act’, MCAS 2011/12 Seminar Series, KCL, London, UK, 8 February, 2012
‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework” and “A cohesive, united, multicultural nation”: Multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1970s-the present’, Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China conference, The University of Sydney, 21-22 November, 2011
‘The introduction of multiculturalism in Australia and Canada, 1960s-1970s’, MCAS 2010/11 Seminar Series, KCL, 23 February, 2011
‘Home or Away? My experiences as a student in Australia’, The Ties That Bind: Australian and British University Interactions Symposium, Australian High Commission, London, UK, 12 October, 2010
‘A comparative study of assimilation policy in Australia and Canada, 1890s-1960s’, Department of History Postgraduate Conference, The University of Sydney, 18 November, 2008
Conferences/Research Symposia/Workshops Attended
InASA Biennial Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 5-7 December, 2012
Witness Seminar on the Role and Function of the British High Commission in Canberra, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK, 8 November, 2012
Australian Painting in Britain: Cultural Diplomacy, Art and National Identity Research Symposium, MCAS, KCL, 12 October, 2012
Australian Studies Panel - European Australian Studies Centre Link, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, 10 September, 2012
The War of 1812: Myth and Memory, History and Historiography Conference, Senate House, London, UK, 12-14 July, 2012
University of Surrey Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism (CRONEM), Department of Politics, 8th Annual Conference, Joint international multidisciplinary conference with Migration Research Unit (MRU), University College London (UCL) and University of Roehampton, UK, The Future of Multiculturalism: Structures, Integration Policies and Practices Conference, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK, 26-27 June, 2012
Reappraising the First World War Seminar, Imperial War Museum (IWM) London, UK, 21 June, 2012
Higher Education Academy Workshop: Issues in teaching Australian history, Senate House, London, UK, 14 March, 2012
Fromelles and Beyond: History, Heritage, Archaeology and Memory of the Great War Research Symposium, IWM London, UK, 10 February, 2012
Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China conference, The University of Sydney, 21-22 November, 2011
The Ties That Bind: Australian and British University Interactions Symposium, Australian High Commission, London, UK, 12 October, 2010
Department of History Postgraduate Conference, The University of Sydney, 18 November, 2008