Dr Jatinder Mann

Jatinder, wearing a dark tailored suit, white shirt and tie stands at a slight angle against a light neutral background with arms folded and a smartwatch visible on one wrist.

Building location

Edith Morley

Areas of interest

  • Transnational, international, and comparative history, law, and politics
  • Citizenship
  • Diaspora
  • Ethnicity
  • Indigeneity
  • Migration
  • Multiculturalism
  • Nationalism
  • The history of the British World
  • Australian, Canadian, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South African cultural, intellectual, political, and social history
  • Australian diplomatic and military history
  • Legal history

Teaching

2025/26 academic year

Teaching HS1009 Western Imaginaries of the Middle East: Edward Said’s Orientalism

2023/24 academic year

Taught HS10WI: Orientalism: Western Imaginaries of the Middle East Course during

Background

Dr. Jatinder Mann is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Reading. He specialises in transnational and comparative history, law, and politics, with a focus on Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, South Africa, and the British World. Jatinder is also the Creator and Manager of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Jatinder is British and of South Asian descent, specifically from the Punjab. He has also lived and worked in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Hong Kong. Jatinder’s current research project is on the ‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’.

He also has over forty refereed publications, which include over a dozen books and edited journals. Jatinder’s most recent book is Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (2024). He has also published numerous articles in front-ranking and emerging interdisciplinary journals. Jatinder is a co-editor in the forthcoming Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 with UNSW Press. He is also the editor for a book series on ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ with Peter Lang Publishing, New York. Jatinder is the Editor-in-chief and Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS).

He was also awarded the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta. Jatinder was a recipient of the highly competitive Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship for his doctoral research at the University of Sydney. He has also held visiting fellowships at King’s College London, the Australian National University, Carleton University, and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

Academic qualifications

BA (Hons), MA (London), Ph.D. (Sydney), PgDip (London), FRHistS

Awards and honours

  • Recipient of Performance Award by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) (January 2020) – HK$30,000
  • Awarded Early Career Scheme Grant – awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (June 2019) – HK$640,500
  • Recipient of successful Institute of Creativity Grant at HKBU to hold Annual Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies Lectures (September 2018) – HK$90,000
  • Collaborator on successful Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Connection Grant with Professor Janine Brodie for ‘International Symposium on Citizenship in a Transnational Perspective’ held in July 2016 (January 2016) – C$25,000
  • Awarded Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship – awarded by SSHRC (April 2014) – C$140,000
  • Recipient of Research Support by Vice-President (Research) at University of Alberta (April 2014) – C$20,000
  • Awarded Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS) – awarded by Australian government to exceptional international research students (August 2005) – A$90,000
  • Recipient of International Postgraduate Award (IPA) – awarded by University of Sydney to those in receipt of an EIPRS (August 2005) – A$75,000

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Creator and Manager of the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN)
  • Elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
  • Affiliate, 'Global Encounters & First Nations Peoples' Research Project, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University

Selected publications

CURRENT PUBLICATIONS

Refereed

Books:

Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (edited with Bart Zielinski) https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2

Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (edited with Iain Johnston-White) https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365

Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019)

https://doi.org/10.3726/b15770

Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6

The Search for a New National Identity: The Rise of Multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1890s-1970s, Interdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016) https://doi.org/10.3726/b10438

  

Edited Journals:

Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS):

‘Canada 150’ – Special Issue of the BJCS, vol. 31, issue 2, September 2018 – edited with Nadia Verrelli and Susan Billingham

 

Articles:

‘The implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand’, JACANZS, vol. 5, September 2025: 51-104.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 5, September 2025: 1-6.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 4, August 2024: 1-9.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 3, September 2023: 1-6.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 2, September 2022: 1-5.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 2, December 2021: 1-7.

‘The Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2021: 45-77.

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 1, issue 1, June 2021: 1-6.

‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission, 1916-1917: A Re-Assessment’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 106, part 2, December 2020: 146-164 (with Carl Bridge).

‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’. National Identities, vol. 21, no. 1, February 2019: 73-92.

‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’. Asian Journal of Canadian Studies (AJCS), vol. 24, no. 2, December 2018: 17-53.

‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, 1950s-1970s’. Chinese Journal of Australian Studies, Issue 2, December 2018 (Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press): 41-75.

‘Introduction’, ‘Canada 150’ – Special Issue of BJCS, vol. 31, issue 2, September 2018: 129-131.

‘Civic Nationalism, Imperial Identities, and Punjabi Migration: Sundar Singh’s Political Activism in the Dominion of Canada’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, vol. 39, issue 2, June 2016: 305-328 (with Andrew Smith).

‘“To the last man and the last shilling” and “Ready, aye ready”: Australian and Canadian conscription debates during the First World War’. Australian Journal of Politics and History (AJPH), vol. 61, issue 2, June 2015: 184-200.

‘The British World during the First World War: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the question of Japan’. JNZPS, vol. 3, issue 1, May 2015: 5-23.

‘“Anglo-Conformity”: Assimilation policy in Canada, 1890s-1950s’. International Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 50, December 2014: 253-276.

‘A Tale of Two Ex-Dominions: Why the procedures for changing the rules of succession are so different in Canada and Australia’. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics (CCP), vol. 52, no. 3, July 2014: 376-401 (with Andrew Smith).

‘“Leavening British traditions”: Integration policy in Australia, 1962-1972’. AJPH, vol. 59, issue 1, March 2013: 47-62.

‘The introduction of multiculturalism in Canada and Australia, 1960s-1970s’. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 18, no. 3, July 2012: 483-503.

‘The evolution of Commonwealth citizenship, 1945-48 in Canada, Britain and Australia’. CCP, vol. 50, no. 3, July 2012: 293-313.

 

Scholarly Book Chapters

‘Conclusion’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (with Bart Zielinski): 221-226. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

‘The demise of Britishness and the rise of multiculturalism in Australia, 1960s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024): 185-202. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) (with Bart Zielinski): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

‘The Redefinition of Citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 97-116. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_5

‘The Redefinition of Citizenship in Australia, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 75-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_4

‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 2nd Revised Edition, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34358-2_1

‘Conclusion - Why revisit the British World?’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Editors), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (with Iain Johnston-White): 253-262. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365

‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022): 205-226. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365

‘Introduction – Revisiting the British World’ in Jatinder Mann and Iain-Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) (with Iain Johnston-White): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365

‘The redefinition of citizenship in Canada, 1950s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann (Editor), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_5

‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann (ed.), Citizenship in Transnational Perspective: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Politics of Citizenship and Migration Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53529-6_1

 

Encyclopedia Entries:

‘War Finance (Australia)’ in Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (Eds), 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War (Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 15 January 2015). https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10538

 

Conference Publications:

‘“Multiculturalism within a bilingual framework” and “A cohesive, united, multicultural nation”: Multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1970s – the present’ in Lesley Harbon and Lindy Woodrow (Eds), Multiculturalism: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and China. 21-22 November 2011, Conference Proceedings (Sydney, NSW: Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, December 2011): 13-18.

 

Executive Editor of ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ Book Series:

Brigid Magner, Transtasman Literary Imaginaries: Stories from a Cross-Border Region (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2026) https://doi.org/10.3726/b20432

Jatinder Mann and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2024) https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

Pavithra Jayawardena, Immigrants’ Perceptions of Citizenship: Sri Lankans in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023) https://doi.org/10.3726/b18491

Jatinder Mann and Iain Johnston-White (Eds), Revisiting the British World: New Voices and Perspectives (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2022) https://doi.org/10.3726/b18365

Bill Apter, Rethinking the Australian Dilemma: Economics and Foreign Policy, 1942-1957 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2021) https://doi.org/10.3726/b17510

Travis J. Hardy, The White Men’s Countries: Racial Identity in the United States-Australian Relationship, 1933-1953 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2020)

https://doi.org/10.3726/b15632

Jatinder Mann, Redefining Citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019) https://doi.org/10.3726/b15770

Amar Wahab, Disciplining Coolies: An Archival Footprint of Trinidad, 1846 (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2019) https://doi.org/10.3726/b13462

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS AND IN PROGRESS

Refereed

Books:

Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 (Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, forthcoming) (edited with Carl Bridge and Bart Zielinski)

Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming) (edited with Alison Clark)

Migration and the British World: Peoples, Flows, and Connections (In progress)

 

Edited Journals:

JACANZS, vol. 6, forthcoming

 

Articles:

‘Introduction’, JACANZS, vol. 6, forthcoming

 

Scholarly Book Chapters:

‘Working in the Imperial System’ in Carl Bridge, Jatinder Mann, and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 (Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, forthcoming)

‘Recruitment and Conscription’ in Carl Bridge, Jatinder Mann, and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 (Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, forthcoming)

‘Finance and Loans’ in Carl Bridge, Jatinder Mann, and Bart Zielinski (Eds), Documents on Australian Foreign Policy: Australia in War and Peace, 1914-1919 (Sydney, NSW: UNSW Press, forthcoming)

‘Afterword’ in Jatinder Mann and Alison Clark (Editors), Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming) (with Alison Clark)

‘Indigeneity and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1960s-1970s’ in Jatinder Mann and Alison Clark (Editors), Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination, Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming)

‘Introduction’ in Jatinder Mann and Alison Clark (Editors), Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination, , Studies in Transnationalism Series (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming) (with Alison Clark)

 

Executive Editor of ‘Studies in Transnationalism’ Book Series:

Jatinder Mann and Alison Clark (Editors), Indigeneity and the British World: Settler Colonialism, Resistance, and Self-Determination,  (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming)

 

Presentations

‘Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge’, Department of History Research Celebration, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 4 June 2025 – Invited speaker

‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’ – This paper was presented at the following venues:
  • Department of History Seminar Series, University of Reading, Reading, UK, 25 October 2023 – Invited speaker
  • Seminar Series on Naturalization, School of Culture and Communication, Online Seminar, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 13 May 2021 – Invited speaker
‘Transnational Identities of the Global South Asian Diaspora in Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand, and South Africa, 1900s-1940s’ – This paper was given at the following venues:
  • New Zealand Historical Association (NZHA) Biennial Conference, Online Conference, Massey University, Palmerston North, Aotearoa New Zealand, 24 November 2021
  • German Association for Australian Studies (GASt) Conference, Online Conference,University of Trier, Trier, Germany, 1 October 2021
  • Polish Association for the Study of Australia Annual Conference, Online Conference, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 23 September 2021

 


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