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Professor Paul Turnbull

Honorary Professor in History
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Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (21)
Journal Articles (19)
Conference Papers (2)
Data Collection (1)
Dataset Collection (1)
Creative Works (2)

Books

Turnbull, P. (2017). Science, museums and collecting the Indigenous dead in colonial Australia. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9
(2010). The long way home: the meaning and values of repatriation. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.

Book Chapters

Aranui, Amber, Fforde, Cressida, Pickering, Michael, Turnbull, Paul, Knapman, Gareth and Keeler, Honor (2020). ‘Under the Hammer’: The role of auction houses and dealers in the distribution of indigenous ancestral remains. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation: Return, Reconcile, Renew. (pp. 335-360) Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-20
Turnbull, Paul (2020). Legally acquired? The moral and legal context of collecting Indigenous Australian human remains in colonial Australia. The great laboratory of humanity: collection, patrimony and the repatriation of human remains. (pp. 235-270) edited by Milicia, Maria Teresa. Padua, Italy: CLEUP sc.
Turnbull, Paul (2020). The ethics of repatriation. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation. (pp. 927-939) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-60
Turnbull, Paul (2020). Collecting and colonial violence. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation. (pp. 452-468) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-27
Fforde, Cressida, Turnbull, Paul, Carter, Neil and Aranui, Amber (2020). Missionaries and the removal, illegal export, and return of Ancestral Remains. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation. (pp. 316-334) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-19
Knapman, Gareth, Turnbull, Paul and Fforde, Cressida (2020). Provenance research and historical sources for understanding Nineteenth-century scientific interest in Indigenous human remains. The Routledge companion to Indigenous repatriation. (pp. 564-582) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-34
Fforde, Cressida, Aranui, Amber, Knapman, Gareth and Turnbull, Paul (2020). ‘Inhuman and very mischievous traffic’: early measures to cease the export of Ancestral Remains from Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation. (pp. 381-399) London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203730966-22
Aranui, Amber, Fforde, Cressida, Pickering, Michael, Turnbull, Paul and Knapman, Gareth (2020). ‘Under The Hammer’, the role of auction houses and dealers in the distribution of Indigenous Ancestral Remains. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation. (pp. 335-360) edited by Cressida Fforde, C. Timothy McKeown and Honor Keeler. Abingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge.
Turnbull, Paul (2019). Pitt Rivers museum. Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 1-2) Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2657-1
Turnbull, Paul (2019). Pitt-Rivers. Encyclopedia of global archaeology. (pp. 1-3) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2656-1
Turnbull, Paul (2018). Digitally analysing colonial collecting – the return, reconcile, renew project. Provenienzforschung zu ethnografischen Sammlungen der Kolonialzeit. (pp. 103-115) edited by Larissa Forster, Iris Edenheiser, Sarah Fruend and Heike Hartmann. Berlin, Germany: Arbeitsgruppe Museum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie.
Turnbull, Paul (2017). European anatomists and Indigenous Australian bodily remains, c. 1788–1820. Science, museums and collecting the Indigenous dead in colonial Australia. (pp. 33-70) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-51874-9_2
Fforde, Cressida, Ormond-Parker, Lyndon and Turnbull, Paul (2015). Repatriation research: archives and the recovery of history and heritage. Heritage, ancestry and law: principles, policies and practices in dealing with historical human remains. (pp. 39-59) edited by Ruth Redmond-Cooper. London, United Kingdom: Institute of Art and Law.
Turnbull, Paul (2014). Margins, mainstreams and the mission of digital humanities. Advancing digital humanities: research, methods, theories. (pp. 258-273) edited by Paul Longley Arthur and Katherine Bode. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137337016.0024
Turnbull, Paul (2013). Das indigene Australien im ersten Jahrhundert der europaeischen Invasion. Australien: 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert. Geschichte und Gesellschaft. (pp. 87-100) edited by Hermann Mückler, Gabriele Weichart and Friedrich Edelmayer. Wien, Austria: Promedia-Verlag.
Turnbull, Paul (2011). A judicious collector: Edward Charles Stirling and the procurement of Aboriginal bodily remains in South Australia, c. 1880-1912. The body divided: Human beings and human 'material' in modern medical history. (pp. 109-130) edited by Sarah Ferber and Sally Wilde. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Introduction. The Long Journey Home: the meanings and Values of Repatriation. (pp. 1-14) edited by Paul Turnbull and Michael Pickering. Oxford, England: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). The Vermillion Accord and the significance of the history of the scientific procurement and use of Indigenous Australian bodily remains. The Long Way Home: The Meaning and Values of Repatriation. (pp. 117-134) edited by Paul Turnbull, Michael Pickering, Mary Bouquet and Howard Morphy. Oxford, U.K.: Berghahn Books.
Turnbull, Paul (2009). The chief mourner's costume: Religion and political change in the Society Islands, 1768-73. Discovering Cook's collections. (pp. 41-57) edited by Michelle Hetherington and Howard Morphy. Canberra, Australia: National Museum of Australia Press.
Turnbull, Paul (2008). British anthropological thought in colonial practice: The appropriation of Indigenous Australian bodies, 1860-1880. Foreign bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940. (pp. 205-228) edited by Bronwen Douglas and Chris Ballard. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.
Turnbull, Paul, Kornbluh, Mark and Shell-Weiss, Melanie (2006). Alternatives to pay-for-view: The case for open access to historical research and scholarship. Libr@ries: Changing information space and practice. (pp. 211-228) edited by Cushla Kapitzke and C. Bruce Bertram. Mahwah, New Jersey, United States: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates. doi: 10.4324/9780203928639

Journal Articles

Turnbull, Paul (2022). ‘Thrown into the fossil gap’: Indigenous Australian ancestral bodily remains in the hands of early Darwinian anatomists, c. 1860–1916. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 92, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.12.010
Turnbull, Paul (2020). International repatriations of Indigenous human remains and its complexities: the Australian experience. Museum and Society, 18 (1), 6-18. doi: 10.29311/mas.v18i1.3246
Kutty, Sangeetha, Nayak, Richi, Turnbull, Paul, Chernich, Ron, Kennedy, Gavin and Raymond, Kerry (2019). PaperMiner—a real-time spatiotemporal visualization for newspaper articles. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 35 (1), 83-100. doi: 10.1093/llc/fqy084
Turnbull, Paul (2018). German-Australian research on a difficult legacy: colonial collections of Indigenous human remains in German museums and collections. German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers: Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands, 179-191. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-6599-6_12
Turnbull, Paul (2016). Managing and mapping the history of collecting indigenous human remains. The Australian Library Journal, 65 (3), 203-212. doi: 10.1080/00049670.2016.1207714
Turnbull, Paul (2015). The aims of Big History. History Compass, 13 (7), 349-358. doi: 10.1111/hic3.12242
Turnbull, Paul (2015). Anthropological collecting and colonial violence in colonial Queensland: a response to 'the blood and the bone'. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 17, 133-158.
Turnbull, Paul (2015). Australian Museums, Aboriginal Skeletal Remains, and the Imagining of Human Evolutionary History, c. 1860-1914. Museum and Society, 13 (1), 72-87.
Turnbull, Paul (2013). Clark Lawlor, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression. Health and History, 15 (2), 125-127. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.15.2.0125
Turnbull, Paul (2012). Global in scope, scientific in spirit: the challenges of big history. The History Teacher eJournal, 50 (3)
Turnbull, Paul (2012). The ‘Aboriginal’ Australian brain in the scientific imagination, c. 1820–1880. Somatechnics, 2 (2), 171-197. doi: 10.3366/soma.2012.0056
Turnbull, Paul (2010). James Cook's hundred days in Queensland. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-10.
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Captain Cook: Voyager between two worlds. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 56 (3), 465-466. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01566.x
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Historians, computing and the World-Wide-Web. Australian Historical Studies, 41 (2), 131-148. doi: 10.1080/10314611003713629
Turnbull, Paul (2010). Aphrodite's Island: the European discovery of Tahiti. Journal of Pacific History, 45 (3), 375-375. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2010.530820
Turnbull, Paul and Turnball, Paul (2010). Reviewed work: Body and Mind. Historical Essays in Honour of F.B. Smith by Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland, Wilfrid Prest. Health and History, 12 (1), 126-128. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.12.1.126
Turnbull, Paul (2007). Scientific theft of remains in colonial Australia - A postscript. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11 (2), 72-73.
Turnbull, Paul (2007). Scientific theft of remains in colonial Australia. Australian Indigenous Law Review, 11 (1), 92-104.
Turnbull, Paul (2006). British anatomists, phrenologists and the construction of the Aboriginal Race, c.1790–1830. History Compass, 5 (1), 26-50. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00367.x/abstract

Conference Papers

Turnbull, Paul (2016). Visually analysing colonial entrepreneurship, architecture and science. Globalisation, entrepreneurship and the South Pacific: reframing Australian colonial architecture, 1800-1850, Hobart, Tasmania, 17 - 18 October, 2016. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: RMIT Press.
Paul Turnbull and Mark Fallu (2008). Beyond South Seas: Making History in Networked Digital Technologies. eResearch Australasia 2008, Melbourne, Australia, 28 September - 3 October 2008.

Data Collection

Turnbull, Paul (2013). Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/436c5fb

Dataset Collection

Turnbull, Paul (2013). Paper Miner: Geo-Temporal Indexes for Australian Newspapers Online. The University of Queensland. (Collection) doi: 10.14264/uql.2017.23

Creative Works

Turnbull, Paul (2013). Guide to sources for north Queensland history. Parkville, VIC, Australia: Melbourne University.
Turnbull, Paul (2013). PaperMiner v1.0. Eveleigh, NSW, Australia: Smart Services CRC.