Associate Professor Gary Osmond
ARC Future Fellowship
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Affiliate Associate Professor
UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
+61 7 334 67591
Researcher biography
Gary has a range of research interests in the historical and contemporary dimensions of sport. These include Australian and Pacific aquatic sport, racial stereotyping, sport myth, social memory and sporting histories beyond the written word.
He is an ARC Future Fellow (2017-21).
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 activities. He is a Chief Investigator on a ARC Linkage-funded digital history project on the Australian Paralympic Movement (2013-17).
Publications
Book
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary Black and proud: the story of an iconic AFL photo. Sydney, NSW, Australia: NewSouth Publishing, 2013.
Book Chapters
Osmond, Gary (2017). The changing field of sports history in Australasia. In The Oxford handbook of sports history (pp. 377-392) New York, NY, United States: Oxford University Press.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). The bones of digital history. In Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips (Ed.), Sport History in the Digital Era (pp. 1-32) Champaign, IL, United States: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). Digital history flexes its muscle. In Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips (Ed.), Sport History in the Digital Era (pp. 251-269) Champaign, IL, USA: University of Illinois Press.
Phillips, Murray, Osmond, Gary and Morgan, Sandra (2015). Indigenous sport and heritage: Cherbourg’s ration shed museum. In Gregory Ramshaw (Ed.), Sport heritage (pp. 22-37) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Introduction: The bones of digital history. In Sport history in the digital era (pp. 1-32) Chicago, ILL, United States: 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. In Wray Vamplew (Ed.), Sports History (pp. 269-286) Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Destabilizing the past through photographs: picturing Japanese sporting tours to Australia. In Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips (Ed.), Examining sport histories: power, paradigms, and reflexivity (pp. 109-130) Morgantown, WV, United States: Fitness Information Technology.
O'Neill, Mark and Osmond, Gary (2012). A racehorse in the museum: Phar Lap and the new museology. In Murray G. Phillips (Ed.), Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame (pp. 29-48) New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2012). Enveloping the past: sport stamps, visuality and museums. In Mike Huggins and Mike O'Mahony (Ed.), The visual in sport (pp. 52-69) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2012). Norman, Peter (1942-2006). In John Nauright and Charles Parrish (Ed.), Sports around the world: history, culture, and practice (pp. 423-423) Santa Barbara, CA, United States: ABC-CLIO.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray (2010). Sources. In S. W. Pope and John Nauright (Ed.), Routledge companion to sports history (pp. 34-50) Abingdon, Oxon, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: Routledge.
Osmond, Gary (2007). Duke Kahanamoku. In John B. Hattendorf (Ed.), The Oxford encyclopedia of maritime history (pp. 291-292) New York, United States: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
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, 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, . 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 (2016) Aboriginal rules: The black history of Australian football. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 16: 1-16. doi:10.1080/09523367.2015.1124861
Osmond, Gary (2015) Review of David Davis, ‘Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku’.. Sporting Traditions, 32 2: 123-125.
Osmond, Gary (2015) The Nimble Savage: Press Constructions of Pacific Islander Swimmers in Early Twentieth-century Australia. Media International Australia, Incorporating Culture & Policy, 157: 133-143.
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.
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2013, October 31). A game whose time has come: Winmar, Goodes and race in the AFL. , .
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.
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2009) That picture - Nicky Winmar and the history of an image. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2009/2 2: 78-89.
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) Forgetting Charlie and Tums Cavill: Social memory and Australian swimming history. Journal of Australian Studies, 33 1: 93-107. doi:10.1080/14443050802672569
Osmond, Gary (2009) Book Review: COAD, DAVID "The Metrosexual: Gender, Sexuality and Sport". Journal of Sport History, 36 2: 167-168.
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, 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
Osmond, Gary (2008) Reflecting materiality: Reading sport history through the lens. Rethinking History, 12 3: 339-360. doi:10.1080/13642520802193205
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, 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, 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, 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 (2018). Doing Digital Sport History: Historical Geographical Information Systems and Aboriginal Sport. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 45th Annual Conference, The California State University at Fullerton, California, (89-90). 26-29 May 2017.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Yarning about Sport: Indigenous Research Methodologies and Transformative Historical Narrative. In: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) 10th Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, United States, (16-16). 17-19 May 2018.
Osmond, Gary (2018). Decolonizing dialogues: sport, resistance and Australian Aboriginal settlements. In: 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. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 46th Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, (). 25-28 May 2018.
Osmond, Gary (2017). Forgotten Pictures: Race, Photographs, and Cathy Freeman at the Thornbury Koori Mural. In: 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. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 44th Annual Conference, Atlanta GA, United States, (83-83). 27-30 May 2016.
Osmond, Gary (2016). Tweet Out? Twitter, archived data and the social memory of out LGBT athletes. In: 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. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 43rd Annual Conference, Miami, Florida, (60-60). 22-25 May 2015.
Osmond, Gary (2016). The historical intersections of homosexuality, masculinity and sport: revisiting Ian Roberts. In: Australian Historical Association Annual Conference, Ballarat, Victoria, (). 4-8 July 2016.
Phillips, Murray G. and Osmond, Gary (2015). ‘Taking a Walk on the Wild Side’: Distant and Close Reading in Sport History. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 42nd Annual Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado United States, (90-90). May 2014.
Osmond, Gary (2015). Marching and yarning: a transformative narrative of the Cherbourg Marching Girls. In: 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. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 41st Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, (69-69). 24-27 May 2013.
Osmond, Gary (2013). The Nimble Savage: Press constructions of Pacific Islander swimmers in early twentieth-century Australia. In: Australian Media Traditions Conference, Brisbane, Australia, (). 25 November 2013.
Osmond, Gary (2013). Viewed from all sides: statues, sport and Eddie Gilbert. In: 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. In: Bulletin of Sport and Culture. The Worlds of Football II: Heritage, Communities and Cultures International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (25-25). 13-15 November 2012.
Townsend, Stephen and Osmond, Gary (2012). Sport History on Wikipedia: An Australian Evaluation. In: North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) 40th Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA United States, (161-162). 1-4 June 2012.
Osmond, Gary (2011). Developing a sport culture in local communities: an historical overview of community sport culture in Australia. In: 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. In: Dragon Tails 2nd Australasian Conference on overseas Chinese history & heritage, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (29-29). 11–14 November 2011.
Osmond, Gary (2010). Picturing Japanese sportsmen: Reading interwar Australian press images. In: Richard Ian Kimball, 2010 North American Society for Sport History Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference. North American Society for Sport History, Orlando, Florida USA, (60-61). 28-31 May 2010.
Osmond, Gary (2009). Shaping lives, statues as biography: The case of Duke Kahanamoku. In: Sporting Traditions XVII. The Cultural Paradigm: Reinvigorating Sport History?, Wellington, New Zealand, (np). 30 June - 3 July, 2009.
Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2009). Enveloping the Past: Sport Stamps, Visuality and Museums. In: The Visual Turn in Sports History Conference, Bristol, England, (). 13-14 June 2009.
Osmond, G. (2008). Hawaiian in Maoriland: Racial dimensions of Duke Kahanamoku's New Zealand tour in 1915. In: Locating history conference, 2008- Proceedings. Locating History, Melbourne, (113-114). 7-10 July, 2008.
Klugman, M. and Osmond, G. (2008). That picture: Nicky Winmar and the history of an image. In: Sport, Race and Ethnicity: Building a Global Understanding, Sydney, Australia, (). 30 November - 2 December 2008.
Osmond, Gary (2008). Photographs, materiality and sport history: Peter Norman and the 1968 Mexico City black protest salute. In: 2008 North American Society for Sport History Proceedings: Proceedings from the 36th Annual NASSH Conference. NASSH 2008: Thirty-Sixth Annual North American Society for Sport History Conference, Lake Placid, NY, U.S.A., (126-127). 23-26 May 2008.
Osmond, G. (2007). "Modest monuments"?: Postage stamps and hierarchies of social memory. In: Lomax, Michael E., North American Society for Sport History. Proceedings. Proceedings of the 2007 North American Society for Sport History Conference. 2007 North American Society for Sport History Conference, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America, (8-9). 25-28 May 2007.
Osmond, G. (2006). Solomon Island divers on camera: Materiality and meaning. In: M.E. Lomax, North American Society for Sport History Proceedings 2006. 34th Annual NASSH Conference, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, (65-66). 19-22 May, 2006.
Osmond, G. (2005). Putting up your Dukes: Statues, Social Memory, and Duke Kahanamoku. In: M. E. Lornax, Proceedings of The Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History. The Annual Conference of the North American Society for Sport History, Green Bay, Wisconsin, (141-142). 27-30 May, 2005.
Osmond, F. G. (2005). The 'Freshy Duke': Statues, social memory and Duke Kahanamoku at Freshwater. In: M. Nicholson, R. Hess, B. Stewart and C. Symons, The Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for Sports History Abstracts. Sporting Traditions XV, Melbourne, Australia, (). 11-14 July, 2005.
Osmond, G. (2004). Look at that kid crawling!: Race, myth, and the crawl stroke. In: Proceedings and Newsletter- North American Society for Sport History. North American Society for Sport History Conference, Pacific Grove, California, (97). 28-31 May, 2004.
Reference Entry
Phillips, Murray and Osmond, Gary (2007) Seymour Vivian (Sam) Herford in Diane Langmore (eds.) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press
Newspaper Articles
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2015, July 29). The AFL has failed Adam Goodes with its reluctance to condemn booing as racist”. The Age, .
Klugman, Matthew and Osmond, Gary (2013, April 17). AFL: the ugly game of enlightened racism. The Age, p.22-22.
Creative Works
Osmond, Gary and Klugman, Matthew (2013) Black and proud: a stand against racism. Melbourne, Australia, National Sports Museum.
Osmond, Gary (2013) Wickham, Alick F. (1886 - 1967) in Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. St Lucia, QLD, Australia, The University of Queensland.
Osmond, Gary (2013) Wickham, Francis (1850 - 1926) in Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia 1893-1978. St Lucia, QLD, Australia, The University of Queensland.
Osmond, Gary (2013) Wickham, Edward (c. 1890 - 1916) in Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia, 1893-1978. St Lucia, QLD, Australia, The University of Queensland.
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.
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.