Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology 
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Swinburne University of Technology 
• Bachelor of Arts (Indigenous Studies), University of South Australia 

Areas of interest

• Indigenous studies 
• Settler colonial studies 
• Settler–Indigenous relations 
• Nationalism and national identity 
• Australian cultural and political history 

Areas of expertise

Dan’s research is focused on settler-colonial nationalism in Australia and beyond, with a current focus on the cultural mythscapes and ongoing nation-building projects through which settler claims to belonging and possession have been both sustained and contested. His areas of interest and expertise encompass the history of settler–Indigenous relations in Australia, settler colonial studies, critical Indigenous studies, the sociology of nationalism and national identity, and Australian cultural and political history.

Grants

• Tout, D. 2024–25. ‘Barriers to truth and justice in settler-colonial Australia: Why won’t settlers listen?’. Federation University ($8,970) 
• Tout, D. 2023. ‘Settler nationalism in so-called “Australia”’. The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne ($5,000)

Awards

• 2022: Victorian Community History Awards Commendation (Royal Historical Society of Victoria) 

Current

• PhD student, Federation University, ‘DisArcadia: Why Australians choose magnificent failure over dangerous truth’, principal supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Two sides of the “less-anthropocentric multi-species flourishing” coin: Contemplative/creative collaborations with animals and nature and shifts in inner subjectivity’, associate supervisor. 

Past

• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Aboriginal people in the Northern Mallee backcountry. Seasonal visitors? Active land managers?’, associate supervisor. 
• PhD student, Federation University, ‘Pathways through the desert: Multiple experiences of Country in the Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia, 1850 to 1920+’, associate supervisor. 
• Master's student, Federation University, ‘Unfinished business! The myth that the settler government has possession of lawful sovereign jurisprudence, self-governance, and a Constitution’, associate supervisor. 

• History 
• Indigenous studies 
• Sociology 

Professional association memberships

• The Australian Historical Association (AHA) 
• The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) 
• The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 
• The Institute of Postcolonial Studies (IPCS) 
• The Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV)