Diane Barwick

Diane Elizabeth Barwick (1938–1986), née MacEachern, anthropologist and historian, was born in Vancouver, Canada. She completed a BA (Hons) in anthropology at the University of British Columbia in 1959. She moved to Australia in 1960 to study for a PhD at The Australian National University. Her PhD thesis, ‘A Little More than Kin’ (1964)—a study of Aboriginal communities in Victoria—led to the writing of Rebellion at Coranderrk, as Diane realised that one could not understand the present without knowing the past. She worked as a research fellow in anthropology at ANU (1965–72), and was a founding member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (later the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies). A co-founder of the journal Aboriginal History, she was its editor from 1978 to 1982. A member of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Diane was the author of over 50 articles and co-editor of three books. Extensive memorial articles and a bibliography of her work appear in Aboriginal History, vol. 11 (1987) and vol. 12 (1988).