Sarah Maddison

Sarah Maddison CF is an Australian author and political scientist.

Education Maddison has a PhD in the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney.

In 2009 she was joint winner of the Australian Political Science Association Henry Mayer Award for her book Black Politics: Inside the complexity of Aboriginal political culture. In 2009 she was also part of the Sydney Leadership Program run by Social Leadership Australia at The Benevolent Society.

Maddison received a 2009 Churchill Fellowship to study models of Indigenous representation in the United States and Canada in 2010.

Interests and current role Maddison's research interests include Indigenous-settler relations, settler colonialism, reconciliation and conflict transformation, Indigenous politics, agonistic democracy, dialogue, and Australian social movements, including research on the Indigenous rights movement and the women’s movement.

She is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, where she also co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration.

Publications Activist Wisdom: Practical Knowledge And Creative Tension in Social Movements, with Sean Scalmer. UNSW Press, 2005. Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government Is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate, edited with Clive Hamilton. Allen & Unwin, 2007. Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture. Allen & Unwin Australia, 2009. An Introduction to Australian Public Policy, second edition, with Richard Denniss. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Unsettling the Settler State: Creativity and Resistance in Indigenous Settler-State Governance, edited with Morgan Brigg. Federation, 2011. Beyond White Guilt: The real challenge for Black-White relations in Australia. Allen & Unwin, 2011. The Women's Movement in Protest, Institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective, edited with Marian Sawer, Routledge, 2013. * Conflict transformation and reconciliation: Multi-level challenges in deeply divided societies, Routledge, 2015 The limits of settler-colonial reconciliation, edited with Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa, Springer, 2016. The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can't solve black problems, Allen & Unwin, 2019.