Australian History in the Department of History
- Dr James Curran
Australian Political and Diplomatic History - Professor Stephen Garton
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Social and Cultural History – particularly Australia; History of Medicine; History of Crime and Incarceration; History of Sexuality; History of Masculinity - Associate Professor Mark McKenna
Australian history, particularly political and cultural history and Aboriginal history - Dr Kirsten McKenzie
Colonial Australia; social and cultural history; gender history; comparative British colonial identity; scandal; celebrity - Professor Peter Read
Aboriginal Australia, place, oral history - Associate Professor Penny Russell
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century history, with a particular interest in intimate history: family and relationships, love and marriage, the minutiae of social life, the politics of gender; Travel, gender and imperialism in nineteenth-century Australia and Britain; Biography, life writing, subjectivity; Scandal - Professor Richard Waterhouse
Australian cultural history; social and cultural history of rural Australia - Mr Richard White
Australian cultural history; Nationalism and national identity; History of travel and tourism
Staff with Research Interests related to Australian history
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Julia Horne, The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed (Melbourne University Press, 2005)
Richard Waterhouse, The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia (Curtin University Books, 2005)
Richard White (with Sarah-Jane Ballard, Ingrid Bown, Meredith Lake, Patricia Leehy, Lila Oldmeadow), On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia (Pluto, 2005)
First Year Units of Study
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- HSTY1088 Australia: Colonies to Nation
- HSTY5906 Love in Australian Society
- HSTY6945 Australian Cultural History: Problems
- Thalia Anthony, The ghost of feudalism : Aboriginal land and labour dependencies in the northern Australian cattle industry (2004)
- David Ayres, National insecurity? : The influence of domestic politics and the American alliance on Australia's approach to China, 1949-1972 (2004)
- Julia Baird, Housewife superstars : female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990 (2001)
- Kate Bagnall, Golden shadows on a white land : an exploration of the lives of white women who partnered Chinese men and their children in southern Australia, 1855-1915 (2006)
- Ruth Balint, Troubled waters : Australian maritime expansion in the Timor Sea (2003)
- Melissa Bellanta, An ideal synthesis: agrarianism & the utopian imagination in Australia, 1884-1900 (2005)
- Jennifer Donovan, The intellectual traditions of Australian feminism : women's clubs and societies, 1890-1920 (2004)
- Derelie Ann Evely, Alexander Macleay and his contribution to colonial New South Wales (2003)
- Catie M. Gilchrist, Male convict sexuality in the penal colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (2004)
- Laina Hall, The long way home: a history of motor touring in Australia 1925-2004 (2005)
- Melissa Harper, The ways of the bushwalker : bushwalking in Australia, 1788-1940 (2002)
- Claire Hooker, Not a job in the ordinary sense : women and science in Australia (2001)
- Sascha Jenkins, Our Harbour: a cultural history of Sydney Harbour 1880-1938 (2004)
- Caroline Jones, Australian imprint : the influence of George Robertson on a national narrative (1890-1935) (2004)
- Catherine Kevin, A genealogy of pregnancy in medicine and the law : Australia 1945-2000 (2003)
- Jill Levenberg, Unequal allies : law, psychiatry and the administration of criminal justice in New South Wales, c. 1880 to 1960 (2003)
- Maggie Pickering, Core of my heart, my country : women's sense of place and the land in Australia and Canada, 1828-1950 (2001)
- Leanne Piggott, An ideal betrayed : Australia, Britain and the Palestine question 1947-1949 (2002)
- Peter Quinn, Unenlightened efficiency : the administration of the juvenile correction system in New South Wales, 1905-1988 (2004)
- Matthew Reason, It all depends on the land: identity, myth and landscape at Uluru and Mount Rushmore (2006)
- Zora Simic, A hall of selective mirrors : feminism, history and identity 1919-1969 (2003)
- John A. Tebbutt, Through Australian eyes : a cultural history of the foreign correspondent (2002)
- D. Trudinger, The comfort of men : a critical history of managerial and professional men in post-war modernisation, Australia 1945-1965 (2004)
- Anne Vidal, Representing Australia Identity 2000-2001: the Sydney Olympic Games and the Centenary of Federation Celebrations (co-tutelle with Paris IV-Sorbonne) (2005)
- Jill Barnes, The History of Tourism in Central Australia
- Diana Covell, Women versus BHP: A Study of the Wollongong 'Jobs for Women Campaign' (1980-1994) and its Canadian comparison, the Hamilton 'Women Back Into STELCO' Campagn (1979-1980)
- Caroline Ford, The Emergence of Popular Beach Culture in Sydney
- Geoff Howarth, The Role of Professor R G Howarth in the Australian Literary Network
- Nina Koutts, Chinatowns as Generic Tourist Sites
- Meredith Lake, Protestant Visions of the Australian Landscape
- Maya Le, A Cultural History of Buddhism in Australia
- Toby Martin, Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia
- Tony Moore, Australia’s Bohemian Tradition
- Katy Nebhan, Australian Muslim Masculinities
- Émilie Paquin, Social Hygiene Movement in New South Wales and Central Canada: A Comparative History of Two Organisations, 1919-1939
- Olwen Pryke, Australia House and the Australian Abroad
- Alex Roberts, The Development of Community Facilities in Sydney and Melbourne since 1945
- Agnieszka Sobocinska, Australian Tourism in Asia since 1940
- Mathew Trinca, Part of the Pageant: Australian Tourists in London after World War 2
Australian History Resources
2005
- Professor Marilyn Lake (La Trobe University)
Presenting a paper in the department research seminar, lecturing in HSTY 1088 Australian History: An Introduction; HSTY 2902 Writing the Past; HSTY2019 Australia to 1888; HSTY3092 Family and Romance in Modern Australia and acting as a discussant at a day of postgraduate presentations on research in Australian history - Professor Stuart Macinytre (University of Melbourne)
Presenting a paper in the department research seminar and lecturing
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