Modern European History in the Department of History
- Professor Robert Aldrich
France since the Revolution, France's overseas empire, the history of 'sites of memory' and the history of gender and sexuality - Associate Professor Alison Bashford
Modern medical history; the history of gender; the history of science - Dr Chris Hilliard
Modern Europe; Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; history and literature; cultural history of the British empire; New Zealand history. - Associate Professor Judith Keene
Twentieth century history, especially the inter war period; European film and history; the Spanish Civil War - Professor Iain McCalman
Eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history; Popular culture and low life; Uses of media for history - Dr Cindy McCreery
Visual (portraits and engravings, including satirical prints [cartoons]) and press (newspaper and magazine) representations of women in 18 and 19c. Britain; visual and press representations of colonial Australia as a maritime society - Dr Dirk Moses
Modern Germany, World History of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, Historiography, Memory, Intellectual History - Professor Glenda Sluga
Intellectual history of the nation; American and British diplomatic history; the History of International Relations; Gender in European History; Australian immigration History; The Gender History of Human Rights; The History of Trieste; Madame de Stael.
Staff with Research Interests related to Modern European history
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A. Dirk Moses, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
Robert Aldrich (editor), Gay Life and Culture: A World History (Thames and Hudson, 2007)
Glenda Sluga, The Nation, Psychology and international Politics, 1870-1919 (Palgrave, 2006)
Chris Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006).
Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005)
- Alison Bashford, 'Gender, Medicine and Empire’ in Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire: The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 6. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) pp. 113-33
- Chris Hilliard, 'Producers by Hand and by Brain: Working-Class Writers and Left Publishers in 1930s Britain,' Journal of Modern History, forthcoming, March 2006.
- Dirk Moses, 'Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History', History and Theory 44 (December 2005): 311-332
- Glenda Sluga, 'What is National Self-Determination? Nationality and psychology during the apogee of nationalism', Nations and Nationalism, vol. 11, 1 (2005).
First Year Units of Study
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- HSTY1045 Modern European History 1750-1914
- HSTY1044 Twentieth Century Politics and Culture
- HSTY2608 Film and History
- HSTY2613 Modern Russia: State, Society, Culture
- HSTY2625 Class and Culture in Modern Britain
- HSTY2651 The Spanish Civil War
- HSTY2652 Genocide in Historical Perspective
- HSTY2659 Nationalism
- HSTY2661 Medicine and Sex
- JCTC2006 The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
- HSTY6992 Monuments and History
- HSTY6994 Globalism, Internationalism and the UN
- HSTY6995 Histories of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HSTY6996 Literary London
- Province, Nation, Empire: France, 1871-1940
(Professor Robert Aldrich) - Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963): Visions of 'Man and Nature' in the Twentieth Century
(Associate Professor Alison Bashford (with Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo)) - World Health: the intellectual history of a twentieth century idea
(Associate Professor Alison Bashford) - At the Border: Health, Immigration Restriction and the Imagining of Australia, 1901-2001
(Associate Professor Alison Bashford) - Complex Words: Literary Judgments in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1970
(Dr Chris Hilliard) - Culture and Politics in Popular Front Britain: towards an imperial history
(Dr Chris Hilliard) - Eating and Drinking as Warfare: A Cultural History of the Madrid Diplomatic Corps 1940 to 1945
(Associate Professor Judith Keene) - Scientific voyages in the Antipodes: Thomas Huxley, John McGillivray and the Darwinian Revolution
(Professor Iain McCalman) - Spectacle and Multimedia in late eighteenth-century Europe: A Programme of Written and Multi-Media Histories: The life and work of Philippe de Loutherbourg
(Professor Iain McCalman) - Representations of old women in wartime Britain, c 1776-1815
(Dr Cindy McCreery) - Moral Panics and the Law in Eighteenth-Century England
(Dr Cindy McCreery, with Associate Professor DF Lemmings and Dr CI Walker, University of Newcastle) - "The Racial Century, 1850-1950: Biopolitics and Genocide in Germany and Australia"
(Dr Dirk Moses) - Nation, Race, Rights and the New World Order: 1945-1966
(Professor Glenda Sluga) - La Bella Liberta: Women, Freedom and the History of Italy c 1800-1940
(Professor Glenda Sluga, Professor Barbara Caine and Professor Ros Pesman)
- Baron Alder, The monotony of the new Evelyn Waugh and England between the wars (2004)
- Andrew Beattie, Contested legitimacy after the Cold War: the Bundestag Commissions of Inquiry into the East German past (2005)
- Gábor Ébli, Museums, modern art and cultural policy in Hungary, 1896-1983 (2002)
- John Fahey, Britain 1939-1945 : the economic cost of strategic bombing (2004)
- Antony Howe, The past is ours : the political usage of English history by the British Communist Party, and the role of Dona Torr in the creation of its Historians' Group, 1930-56 (2003)
- Sarah Morgan, Strength and Grace: Gender and Sport in Fascist Italy (2006)
- David Smith, Ecology and non-violence across the species barrier?: the German Greens and the politics of animal protection (2007)
- Shannon Woodcock, The Tigan is not a man: the Tigan Other as catalyst for Romanian ethnonational identity (2005)
- Claudette Wilkinson
Richard Meinertzhagen and the British Empire, 1878-1967
European Studies Centre
2007
- Professor Philippa Levine (University of South California), is the author of two studies of Victorian feminism, a study of the development of the history of nineteenth-century Britain, and most recently Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.
– Teaching in postgraduate master class sessions under the sponsorship of the ‘Nation-Empire-Globe’ research cluster, March 2007. - Professor Jane Burbank (New York University), is the author of Intelligentsia and Revolution: Russian Views of Bolshevism, 1917-1922 and Russian Peasants Go to Court: Legal Culture in the Countryside, 1905-1917.
– Visiting in May, 2007. - Dr Robert Tombs (Faculty of History at Cambridge University; fellow of St John’s College), is the author of The War against Paris, 1871, Thiers, 1797-1877: A Political Life (with J.P.T. Bury), Nationhood and Nationalism in France, France 1814-1914, and The Paris Commune, 1871. Most recently, with Isabelle Tombs, he is the author of That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present.
– Giving a keynote address at the Australasian Association for European History conference in July, 2007. - Professor Rudolph Binion (Leff Family Professor of European History at Brandeis University). Among his many works in cultural history and psychohistory are Hitler among the Germans, After Christianity: Christian Survivals in Post-Christian Culture, Love beyond Death: The Anatomy of a Myth in the Arts, Sounding the Classics: From Sophocles to Thomas Mann, and Past Impersonal: Group Process in Human History.
– Delivering one of the keynote addresses at the Australasian Association for European History conference in July, 2007. - Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick (Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago). Among her publications are Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times – Soviet Russia in the 1930s and Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia.
– Visiting Honorary Professor, July and August 2007. - Professor Olivier Wieviorka (Ecole Normale Supérieure-Cachan,France). He is the author of a number of works in twentieth century history, including Une certain idée de la Résistance: Défense de la France, 1940-1949, and Les orphelins de la République and Vichy 1940-1944.
– September 2007 (jointly sponsored by the Department of French Studies).
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