Associate Professor Gary Osmond
Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
+61 7 334 67591
Researcher biography
Gary has a range of research interests in the historical and contemporary dimensions of sport. These include Indigenous Australian sport histories, Australian and Pacific aquatic sport, racial stereotyping, sport myth, social memory and sporting histories beyond the written word.
Gary gained his PhD in the field of sport history from the University of Queensland, following joint enrolment in the School of Human Movement Studies and the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics. Dr Osmond teaches in the socio-cultural dimensions of sport and physical activity.
Hs major grants include:
- Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project (DP190100647: 2020-2023), titled Pride, Resilience and Identity: Reimagining Aboriginal Sport History [Murray Phillips (UQ), Gary Osmond, Barry Judd (Melbourne)].
- ARC Future Fellowship (FT160100212: 2017-21), titled Sport, Stories and Survival: Reframing Indigenous Sport History.
- Chief Investigator on a ARC Linkage digital history project (LP130101031: 2014-2019) titled Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community [Murray G. Phillips, Gary Osmond, Tony Naar (Australian Paralympic Committee)].
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Sport, Stories and Survival: Reframing Indigenous Sport History ARC Future Fellowship |
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Yarrabah Community, Identity and Pride: A History of Yarrabah Sport UQ Knowledge Exchange & Translation Fund |
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| History of the Australian Paralympic Movement | |
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Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community ARC Linkage Project |
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Torres Strait Islander History: Sport, Culture and Identity ARC Discovery Project |
Publications
Books
Williams, Lesley, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Marching with a Mission: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls. Murgon, QLD, Australia: Ration Shed Museum.
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2013). Black and proud: the story of an iconic AFL photo. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
Book Chapters
Osmond, Gary (2023). Munns, Oscar John (1906–1982). Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. 1-2) Canberra, ACT, Australia: The Australian National University.
Osmond, Gary (2023). Stealing, drinking, and not cooperating: sport, everyday resistance in Aboriginal settlements in Australia. Decolonizing sport. (pp. 186-200) edited by Janice Forsyth, Christine O’Bonsawin, Russell Field and Murray G. Phillips. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Fernwood Publishing.
Osmond, Gary (2022). Mosby, Harry Walter (1945–1993). Australian dictionary of biography. Canberra, ACT, Australia: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Osmond, Gary (2022). Going strong. Sports and aging: a prescription for longevity. (pp. 191-212) edited by Gerald R. Gems. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Osmond, Gary (2022). Expanding repertoires inside and outside the archives: methods. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 57-64) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-9
Osmond, Gary (2022). O'Chin, Andrew (Jack) (1917–1978). Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. n/a-n/a) Online: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Judd, Barry and Osmond, Gary (2022). A critical discussion of history and Indigenous sport in Australia. Routledge handbook of sport history. (pp. 287-294) edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429318306-40
Osmond, Gary (2017). The changing field of sports history in Australasia. The Oxford handbook of sports history. (pp. 377-392) edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson. New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858910.013.28
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). The bones of digital history. Sport History in the Digital Era. (pp. 1-32) edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Champaign, IL, United States: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray, Osmond, Gary and Morgan, Sandra (2015). Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg’s ration shed museum. Sport heritage. (pp. 22-37) edited by Gregory Ramshaw. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Introduction: The bones of digital history. Sport history in the digital era. (pp. 1-32) Chicago, ILL, United States: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Digital history flexes its muscle. Sport History in the Digital Era. (pp. 251-269) edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Champaign, IL, USA: University of Illinois Press.
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Wicked Wikipedia: communities of practice, the production of knowledge and Australian sport history. Sports History. (pp. 269-286) edited by Wray Vamplew. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Destabilizing the past through photographs: picturing Japanese sporting tours to Australia. Examining sport histories: power, paradigms, and reflexivity. (pp. 109-130) edited by Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips. Morgantown, WV, United States: Fitness Information Technology.
Osmond, Gary (2013). 'Lively little visitors’ and ‘peaceful ambassadors’: reading Japanese sporting tours through the Australian press – 1926 to 1935. Australia's Asian sporting context, 1920s – 30s. (pp. 109-130) edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Wickham, Edward (c. 1890 - 1916). Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. edited by Clive Moore. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Wickham, Francis (1850 - 1926). Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. edited by Clive Moore. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Wickham, Alick F. (1886 - 1967). Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. edited by Clive Moore. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
O'Neill, Mark and Osmond, Gary (2012). A racehorse in the museum: Phar Lap and the new museology. Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame. (pp. 29-48) edited by Murray G. Phillips. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Enveloping the past: sport stamps, visuality and museums. The visual in sport. (pp. 52-69) edited by Mike Huggins and Mike O'Mahony. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2012). Norman, Peter (1942-2006). Sports around the world: history, culture, and practice. (pp. 423-423) edited by John Nauright and Charles Parrish. Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray (2010). Sources. Routledge companion to sports history. (pp. 34-50) edited by S. W. Pope and John Nauright. Abingdon, Oxon, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203885413-10
Osmond, Gary (2007). Duke Kahanamoku. The Oxford encyclopedia of maritime history. (pp. 291-292) edited by John B. Hattendorf. New York, United States: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
Fabian, Tom, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2024). Nature games: traditional Indigenous games and environmental stewardship in Oceania. Sport History Review, 1-18. doi: 10.1123/shr.2023-0039
Osmond, Gary and Richardson, Jan (2024). Sport, Race and African-Caribbean Migrants in Australia: Evaluating Jack Dowridge, the ‘Black Diamond’ Boxer. Australian Journal of Biography and History (8), 29-48. doi: 10.22459/AJBH.08.2024
Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary and Wheeler, Keane (2023). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sport: sporting literacy, attenuated agency, and survivance. The International Journal of the History of Sport, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2023.2245765
Osmond, Gary and Frost, Lionel (2023). Sport and Queensland Aboriginal reserves in the 1920s and 1930s: ideology, revenue, and exploitation. Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, 63 (1), 52-72. doi: 10.1111/aehr.12260
Osmond, Gary (2022). Portland's "Aquatic Pied Piper": Arthur Cavill and swimming promotion in Oregon. Oregon Historical Quarterly, 123 (2), 170-193. doi: 10.1353/ohq.2022.0016
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and Harvey, Alistair (2022). Fighting colonialism: Olympic boxing and Australian race relations. Journal of Olympic Studies, 3 (1), 72-95. doi: 10.5406/26396025.3.1.05
Osmond, Gary and Klugman, Matthew (2022). Through a long lens: racism, protest, memory and sovereignty in Australian sport. Sport in History, 42 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17460263.2022.2069849
Osmond, Gary (2021). Bending the ball: racial policy and 1930s sport on Thursday Island. Australian Historical Studies, 53 (1), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/1031461x.2021.1933111
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2021). Tensions, complexities, and compromises: sharing Australian Aboriginal women’s sport history. Journal of Sport History, 48 (2), 118-134. doi: 10.5406/21558450.48.2.03
Olive, Rebecca, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research, 24 (1), 13-28. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1624181
Osmond, Gary (2021). 'Pride of Yarrabah’: Yarrabah’s annual sports days as historical Aboriginal spaces. Australian Aboriginal Studies (1), 36-52.
Osmond, Gary (2020). Albert ‘Pompey’ Austin: A Man between Two Worlds : by Roy Hay, Sports and Editorial Services Australia, 2020, ix + 265pp., AU$29.95 (paperback), ISBN (13)9780994601940. Sport in Society, 24 (2), 1-3. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1840555
Osmond, Gary (2020). The trials of Sala Bogi: race, racism and resistance in sport. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (3), 271-286. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2020.1788117
Osmond, Gary (2020). Sport and the Torres Strait: Thursday Island, Island Studies, the Archipelagic Turn, and Identity. International Journal of the History of Sport, 37 (8), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2020.1779704
Osmond, Gary (2020). Strait talking: a call for Torres Strait sport history research. Sporting Traditions, 37 (1), 47-64.
Sherwood, Catherine, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2020). Aboriginality, racial discourse and football media in 20th-century Queensland. Journal of Australian Studies, 44 (1), 97-113. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1668821
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2019). Yarning about sport: Indigenous research methodologies and transformative historical narratives. International Journal of the History of Sport, 36 (13-14), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1691532
Osmond, Gary (2019). The view from the office, the view from the field: sport in Queensland Aboriginal reserves. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 36 (6), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1625894
Osmond, Gary and Klugman, Matthew (2019). A forgotten picture: race, photographs and Cathy Freeman at the Northcote Koori Mural. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (2), 203-217. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1581247
Osmond, Gary (2019). Playing the third quarter: sport, memory and silences in Aboriginal memoirs. Australian Aboriginal Studies (2), 73-88.
Osmond, Gary (2019). Decolonizing dialogues: sport, resistance and Australian Aboriginal settlements. Journal of Sport History, 46 (2), 288-301. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.46.2.0288
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2019). Clay vs. Ali: Distant Reading, Methodology, and Sport History. Journal of Sport History, 46 (3), 380-395. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.46.3.0380
Osmond, Gary (2018). ‘Swimming instruction trust of America’: the Cavill family, borderlands and decentring Australia sport history. Sport in History, 39 (1), 24-44. doi: 10.1080/17460263.2018.1556726
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2018). 'Where Cassius Clay Ends, Muhammad Ali Begins': sportspeople, political activism, and methodology. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35 (11), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2018.1523146
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Marching for assimilation: Indigenous identity, sport, and politics. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (4), 544-560. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12520
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2018). Indigenous women's sporting experiences: agency, resistance and nostalgia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (4), 561-575. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12516
Townsend, Stephen, Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Remembering the rejection of Muhammad Ali: identity, civil rights and social memory. Sport in History, 38 (3), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/17460263.2018.1474129
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2018). Australian indigenous sport historiography: a review. Kinesiology Review, 7 (2), 193-198. doi: 10.1123/kr.2018-0007
Osmond, Gary (2017). Reflections from an accidental sports historian: arriving, striving, and surviving. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 34 (5-6), 1-5. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2017.1344644
Osmond, Gary (2017). Indigenous sporting pasts: resuscitating Aboriginal swimming history. Australian Aboriginal Studies (2), 43-55.
Osmond, Gary (2017). Tweet out? Twitter, archived data, and the social memory of out LGBT athletes. Journal of Sport History, 44 (2), 322-335. doi: 10.5406/jsporthistory.44.2.0322
Osmond, Gary (2016). Object lesson: approaching nineteenth-century swimming through the Von Hammer probate inventory. Journal of Australian Studies, 40 (3), 337-352. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2016.1199584
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2016). Standing Tall: Memorialising Australian Sport through Statues. Sporting Traditions, 33 (1), 1-8.
Osmond, Gary (2016). The Duke Paoa Kahanamoku statue at Freshwater: motivations, memory, and identity. Sporting Traditions, 33 (1), 67-91.
Gorman, Sean, Judd, Barry, Reeves, Keir, Osmond, Gary, Klugman, Matthew and McCarthy, Gavan (2015). Aboriginal rules: The black history of Australian football. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (16), 1947-1962. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1124861
Osmond, Gary (2015). The Nimble Savage: Press Constructions of Pacific Islander Swimmers in Early Twentieth-century Australia. Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, 157 (157), 133-143. doi: 10.1177/1329878x1515700116
Osmond, Gary (2015). Review of David Davis, ‘Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku’.. Sporting Traditions, 32 (2), 123-125.
Phillips, Murray G, Osmond, Gary and Townsend, Stephen (2015). A Bird’s-Eye View of the Past: Digital History, Distant Reading and Sport History. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (15), 1725-1740. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1090976
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Australia’s Women Surfers: History, Methodology and the Digital Humanities. Australian Historical Studies, 46 (2), 285-303. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2015.1044757
Bond, Chelsea, Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Crossing lines: sport history, transformative narratives and aboriginal australia. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (13), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1038704
Osmond, Gary (2015). Blown out of the water: the 1933 New Caledonian water polo visit to Australia and demise of a racial stereotype. Journal of Pacific History, 50 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2014.993492
Osmond, Gary (2015). ‘Pink tea and sissy boys’: digitized fragments of male homosexuality, non-heteronormativity and homophobia in the Australian sporting press, 1845–1954. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (13), 1578-1592. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1086343
Phillips, Murray G., Osmond, Gary and Morgan, Sandra (2014). Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg's Ration Shed Museum. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 9 (3), 212-227. doi: 10.1080/1743873X.2014.904317
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Viewed from all sides: Statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert. Australian Aboriginal Studies (1), 16-32.
Osmond, Gary and Parker, Claire (2013). Broadening readings of sport monuments: The Arthur Baynes memorial obelisk. International Journal of the History of Sport, 30 (12), 1374-1393. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2013.789868
Townsend, Stephen, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2013). Wicked Wikipedia? Communities of practice, the production of knowledge and Australian sport history. International Journal of the History of Sport, 30 (5), 545-559. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2013.767239
Osmond, Gary (伽瑞•奧斯蒙德) (2013). Kwok Chun Hang, swimmer: researching Chinese Australian sport history through digitised newspapers. Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, 6, 64-74.
Osmond, Gary (2012). Clipped histories: representing the Cavill family of swimmers in historical feature articles. Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (3), 363-376. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2012.699000
Osmond, Gary (2012). ‘Lively little visitors’ and ‘peaceful ambassadors’: reading Japanese sporting tours through the Australian press – 1926 to 1935. Sport in Society, 15 (4), 529-550. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2012.672236
Osmond, Gary (2012). Swimming her own course: Agency in the professional swimming career of Alice Cavill. International Journal of the History of Sport, 29 (3), 385-402. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2012.659727
Osmond, Gary (2011). The surfing Tommy Tanna: Performing race at the Australian beach. The Journal of Pacific History, 46 (2), 177-195. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2011.607263
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2011). Reading Salute: Filmic representations of sports history. International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (10), 1463-1477. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2011.577639
Osmond, Gary (2011). Myth-making in Australian sport history: Re-evaluating Duke Kahanamoku’s contribution to surfing. Australian Historical Studies, 42 (2), 260-276. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2010.529922
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2011). Enveloping the past: Sport stamps, visuality and museums. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 28 (8-9), 1138-1155. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2011.567768
Osmond, Gary (2011). The gay games: a history. Sporting Traditions, 28 (1), 116-118. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2011.628883
Osmond, Gary (2010). Shaping lives: Statues as biography. Sporting Traditions, 27 (2), 101-111.
Osmond, Gary (2010). 'Honolulu Maori': Racial dimensions of Duke Kahanamoku's tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1914-1915. New Zealand Journal of History, 44 (1), 22-34.
Osmond, Gary (2010). Photographs, materiality and sport history: Peter Norman and the 1968 Mexico City Black Power Salute. Journal of Sport History, 37 (1), 119-137.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2009). Filmic sports history: Dawn Fraser, swimming and Australian national identity. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26 (14), 2126-2142. doi: 10.1080/09523360903303094
Osmond, Gary (2009). Book Review: COAD, DAVID "The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality and Sport". Journal of Sport History, 36 (2), 167-168.
Osmond, Gary (2009). Forgetting Charlie and Tums Cavill: Social memory and Australian swimming history. Journal of Australian Studies, 33 (1), 93-107. doi: 10.1080/14443050802672569
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2009). That picture - Nicky Winmar and the history of an image. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009/2 (2), 78-89.
Osmond, Gary (2008). 'Modest monuments'?: Postage stamps, Duke Kahanamoku and hierarchies of social memory. The Journal of Pacific History, 43 (3), 313-329. doi: 10.1080/00223340802281585
Osmond, Gary (2008). Reflecting materiality: Reading sport history through the lens. Rethinking History, 12 (3), 339-360. doi: 10.1080/13642520802193205
Osmond, G. and McDermott, M-L. (2008). Mixing race: The Kong Sing brothers and Australian sport. Australian Historical Studies, 39 (3), 338-355. doi: 10.1080/10314610802263323
Phillips, M. G., O'Neill, M. E. and Osmond, G. (2007). Broadening horizons in sport history: Films, photographs, and monuments. Journal of Sport History, 34 (2), 401-421.
Osmond, G. (2007). Review of The Bondi Lifesaver: A History of an Australian Icon by Sean Bradley (Book Review). Journal of Sport History, 34 (2), 302-303.
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and O'Neill, Mark (2006). 'Putting up your Dukes': Statues, social memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 23 (1), 82-103. doi: 10.1080/09523360500386484
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2006). 'Look at that kid crawling': Race, myth and the 'crawl' stroke. Australian Historical Studies, 37 (127), 43-62. doi: 10.1080/10314610608601203
Osmond, Gary (2006). Race and sport: the struggle for equality on and off the field. Charles K. Ross (Ed.)(book review). Sport Education and Society, 11 (4), 432-435. doi: 10.1080/13573320600944641
Osmond, G. (2006). Anderson, Eric. In the Game: Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity (book review). Journal of Sport History, 33 (1), 94-95.
Osmond, Gary (2005). Swimming: How Australian Exactly is the Crawl?. Sport Health, 23 (2 (Winter)), 9-10.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2004). 'The bloke with a stroke' - Alick Wickham, the 'crawl' and social memory. Journal of Pacific History, 39 (3), 309-324. doi: 10.1080/0022334042000290379
Osmond, Gary (2003). Shimmering waters: Swimming, autobiography and social memory. Sporting Traditions, 20 (1), 63-71.
Conference Papers
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray (2023). Indigenous Public History: Cherbourg’s Marching Girls. Public Sport History and Community Sport Symposium, Sydney, NSW Australia, 5 December 2023.
Osmond, Gary (2023). Too deadly – Tracking sport histories with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities (Maxwell L. Howell and Reet Howell International Honor Address). North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) Conference, Washington, DC, United States, 26-29 May 2023.
Phillips, Murray G., Wheeler, Keane and Osmond, Gary (2023). The double folds of racism and history: silences, concussion and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sportspeople. Remembering the Injured Brain in Sport History’ (North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) pre-conference workshop, Washington, DC, United States, 25 May 2023.
Osmond, Gary (2023). Yarrabah Yarning: Aboriginal histories of rugby league. Sporting Traditions XXIV (Australian Society for Sports History), Canberra, ACT, Australia, 10-13 July 2023.
Morseu, Danny and Osmond, Gary (2022). Growing up in the Torres Strait under the ‘Act’: Danny Morseu, leisure and place. Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference – ‘In Pursuit of Leisure: inequality, storytelling and the meanings of place', Falmouth, United Kingdom, 12-14 July 2022.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). Torres Strait Islander history: sport, culture and identity. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Virtual, 27-30 May 2022.
Osmond, Gary and Frost, Lionel (2021). Sport and Queensland Aboriginal reserves in the 1920s and 1930s: Ideology, profit and exploitation. Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Conference 2021, Perth, WA, Australia, 11-13 February 2021.
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2021). What iconic sporting images reveal of Australia and Australianness. International Australian Studies Association (InASA), ‘Reinventing Australia’ Conference , Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 8-10 February 2021.
Osmond, Gary (2021). Sport and cultural continuity in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), Virtual, 28-31 May 2021.
Osmond, Gary (2019). Sport in the Torres Strait: island studies, the archipelagic turn and identity. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 47th Annual Conference, Boise, ID, United States, 24-27 May 2019.
Osmond, Gary (2019). Whose periphery? The archipelagic turn and sport in the Torres Strait. 2019 Sporting Traditions Conference, Bathurst, NSW, 1-4 July 2019.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Decolonizing dialogues: sport, resistance and Australian Aboriginal settlements. NASSH pre-conference workshop – “Indigenous Resurgence, Regeneration, and Decolonization through Sport History”, Winnipeg, Canada, 22-24 May 2018.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Playing the third quarter: sport, memory and silences in Aboriginal memoirs. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 46th Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, 25-28 May 2018.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Doing Digital Sport History: Historical Geographical Information Systems and Aboriginal Sport. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 45th Annual Conference, The California State University at Fullerton, California, 26-29 May 2017. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Yarning about Sport: Indigenous Research Methodologies and Transformative Historical Narrative. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) 10th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, United States, 17-19 May 2018.
Osmond, Gary (2017). Forgotten Pictures: Race, Photographs, and Cathy Freeman at the Thornbury Koori Mural. Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) 21st Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, 3-6 July 2017.
Osmond, Gary (2017). “But he plays football”: Ian Roberts, sport, and the challenge of homosexuality to 1990s masculinity. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 44th Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, United States, 27-30 May 2016. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2016). The historical intersections of homosexuality, masculinity and sport: revisiting Ian Roberts. Australian Historical Association Annual Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, 4-8 July 2016.
Osmond, Gary (2016). Tweet Out? Twitter, archived data and the social memory of out LGBT athletes. Doing Sport History in the Digital Present, Atlanta, Georgia, 25-26 May 2016.
Osmond, Gary (2016). Digitally Reading ‘Snippets and Shadows’: Locating male homosexuality in the Australian sporting press. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 43rd Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, 22-25 May 2015. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). ‘Taking a Walk on the Wild Side’: Distant and Close Reading in Sport History. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 42nd Annual Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado United States, May 2014. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2015). Marching and yarning: a transformative narrative of the Cherbourg Marching Girls. Australian Society for Sports History 20th Annual Conference, Darwin, NT, Australia, 1-3 July 2015.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2014). Re - Presenting The Black Power Salute: New Media and Sport History. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 41st Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 24-27 May 2013. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2013). The Nimble Savage: Press constructions of Pacific Islander swimmers in early twentieth-century Australia. Australian Media Traditions Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 25 November 2013.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Viewed from all sides: statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert. Australian Society for Sports History 19th Annual Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2-5 July 2013.
Osmond, Gary and Klugman, Matthew (2012). The Histories of a Transformative Racial Image: Memory, Methodology and Form. The Worlds of Football II: Heritage, Communities and Cultures International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 13-15 November 2012.
Townsend, Stephen and Osmond, Gary (2012). Sport History on Wikipedia: An Australian Evaluation. North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 40th Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA United States, 1-4 June 2012. University Park, PA United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2011). Developing a sport culture in local communities: an historical overview of community sport culture in Australia. Malaysia–Australia Research Colloquium on Exercise, Nutrition, Health and Wellness, Penang, Malaysia, 19–21 September 2011.
Osmond, Gary (2011). Search for Kwok Chun Hang – The Internet, digitised newspapers, and Australian Chinese sport history. Dragon Tails 2nd Australasian Conference on overseas Chinese history & heritage, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 11–14 November 2011.
Osmond, Gary (2010). Picturing Japanese sportsmen: Reading interwar Australian press images. North American Society for Sport History, Orlando, Florida USA, 28-31 May 2010. United States: North American Society for Sport History.
Osmond, Gary (2009). Shaping lives, statues as biography: The case of Duke Kahanamoku. Sporting Traditions XVII. The Cultural Paradigm: Reinvigorating Sport History?, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 June - 3 July, 2009. New Zealand: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2009). Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums. The Visual Turn in Sports History Conference, Bristol, England, 13-14 June 2009.
Klugman, M. and Osmond, G. (2008). That picture: Nicky Winmar and the history of an image. Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding, Sydney, Australia, 30 November - 2 December 2008.
Osmond, G. (2008). Hawaiian in Maoriland: Racial dimensions of Duke Kahanamoku's New Zealand tour in 1915. Locating History, Melbourne, 7-10 July, 2008. Melbourne: The University of Melbourne.
Osmond, Gary (2008). Photographs, materiality and sport history: Peter Norman and the 1968 Mexico City black protest salute. NASSH 2008: Thirty-Sixth Annual North American Society for Sport History Conference, Lake Placid, NY, U.S.A., 23-26 May 2008. Lemont, PA, U.S.A.: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH).
Osmond, G. (2007). "Modest monuments"?: Postage stamps and hierarchies of social memory. 2007 North American Society for Sport History Conference, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, 25-28 May 2007. Athens, GA, United States of America: Sadiki Publishing.
Osmond, G. (2006). Solomon Island divers on camera: Materiality and meaning. 34th Annual NASSH Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 19-22 May, 2006. Athens, GA: NASSH.
Osmond, G. (2005). Putting up your Dukes: Statues, Social Memory, and Duke Kahanamoku. The Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 27-30 May, 2005. United States: North American Society for Sports History.
Osmond, F. G. (2005). The 'Freshy Duke': Statues, social memory and Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater. Sporting Traditions XV, Melbourne, Australia, 11-14 July, 2005. Melbourne: ASSH.
Osmond, G. (2004). Look at that kid crawling!: Race, myth, and the crawl stroke. North American Society for Sport History Conference, Pacific Grove, California, 28-31 May, 2004. United States: North American Society for Sports History.
Generic Document
Osmond, Gary (2019). Once upon a time … the award-winning art challenging a deeper examination of racism in sport. University of Queensland.
Video Document
Reference Entry
Phillips, Murray and Osmond, Gary (2007). Seymour Vivian (Sam) Herford.
Creative Works
Osmond, Gary (2024). Up in the air – Marngrook and Australian rules football. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Queensland Theatre.
Osmond, Gary (2021). Fred Nitz. Online: Wikipedia.
Osmond, Gary, Phillips, Murray G. and Naar, Tony (2019). Paralympic Stories. Online website: https://paralympichistory.org.au/: Paralympics Australia.
Osmond, Gary (2019). Thomas Butler. Online: Wikipedia.
Osmond, Gary (2019). Victor Salvemini. Online: Wikipedia.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Harry Mosby. Online: Wikipedia.
Osmond, Gary (2015). Donna Burns. Online: Wikipedia.
Osmond, Gary and Klugman, Matthew (2013). Black and proud: a stand against racism. Melbourne, Australia: National Sports Museum.
Newspaper Articles
Osmond, Gary (2024, 01 02). 50 years after Evonne Goolagong’s Australian Open win, we should remember her achievements – and the racism she overcame The Conversation
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2023, 08 14). Trove, Surfing History and Myth Busting: Researching women's surfing history in Australia Trove blog
Osmond, Gary and Olive, Rebecca (2023, 08 03). Olympic swimming in the Seine highlights efforts to clean up city rivers worldwide The Conversation
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2015, 07 29). The AFL has failed Adam Goodes with its reluctance to condemn booing as racist” The Age
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2013, 04 17). AFL: the ugly game of enlightened racism The Age 22-22.
Theses
Osmond, Frederick Gary (2006). Nimble savages : myth, race, social memory and Australian aquatic sport. PhD Thesis, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/328892
Osmond, Frederick Gary. (2006). Nimble savages : myth, race, social memory and Australian aquatic sport. PhD Thesis, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland.