Research Degrees in the Department of History
The Department offers three postgraduate research degrees:
- Master of Arts (Research)
- Master of Philosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy
Details of these degrees can found on the Postgraduate Research Program pages.
Recently Completed Ph.D.s
- Baron Alder, The monotony of the new Evelyn Waugh and England between the wars (2004)
- 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)
- 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)
- Julia Baird, Housewife superstars : female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990 (2001)
- Ruth Balint, Troubled waters : Australian maritime expansion in the Timor Sea (2003)
- Andrew Beattie, Contested legitimacy after the Cold War: the Bundestag Commissions of Inquiry into the East German past (2005)
- Melissa Bellanta, An ideal synthesis: agrarianism & the utopian imagination in Australia, 1884-1900 (2005)
- Dean Bertram, Flying saucer culture: an historical survey of American UFO belief (2006)
- Ana Carden-Coyne, Revenge of the body : modern classicism in postwar culture, 1918-1933 (2001)
- Adrian Carton, Categories of cross-cultural belonging : 'European' identity and racial 'difference' in early colonial India, 1763-1800 (2002)
- Zoe Couacaud, How the alien invaded the American mind: a history of experts, entrepreneurs, story-tellers, and a love of the alien in modern American culture (2006)
- Clare Corbould, Making African Americans, 1919-1936 (2005)
- Joanna Crawford, Clothing connections : dress and social life in late medieval England, 1300-1500 (2003)
- James Curran, More than empty words?: Prime Ministerial rhetoric and Australian nationalism, 1972-1996 (2001)
- Trevor Daly, Elements of the past: an environmental history of the Blue Mountains, Australia (2000)
- Jennifer Donovan, The intellectual traditions of Australian feminism : women's clubs and societies, 1890-1920 (2004)
- Gábor Ébli, Museums, modern art and cultural policy in Hungary, 1896-1983 (2002)
- Catherine England, The use of children in Renaissance Florence (2007)
- Derelie Ann Evely, Alexander Macleay and his contribution to colonial New South Wales (2003)
- John Fahey, Britain 1939-1945 : the economic cost of strategic bombing (2004)
- Catie M. Gilchrist, Male convict sexuality in the penal colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (2004)
- Hamish Graham, Managers or pillagers?: forest exploitation and woodland "crime" in south-western France during the eighteenth century (2001)
- 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)
- Mark Hearn, Hard cash: John Dwyer and his contemporaries, 1890-1914 (2001)
- Claire Hooker, Not a job in the ordinary sense : women and science in Australia (2001)
- 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)
- 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)
- Shino Konishi, Bodies in contact : European representations of Aboriginal men 1970-1803 (2007)
- Bronwyn Ledgard, Early Celtic notions of time : reconsidering 'the Celtic year' (2007)
- Jill Levenberg, Unequal allies : law, psychiatry and the administration of criminal justice in New South Wales, c. 1880 to 1960 (2003)
- Angela Macdonald, Hollywood bound: a history of Australians in Hollywood to 1970 (2001)
- Frank McGrath, The intentions of the framers of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution in the context of the debates at the Australasian Federation Conference of 1890, and the Australasian Federal Conventions of 1891 and 1897-8 (2000)
- Obelia Modjeska, Seeking Dad, Seeking Master: Patriarchal Crisis, Middle Class Masculinity and the Representation of the Father in American Cinema, 1970 to the Present (2005)
- Alison Moore, The painful self : a history of the perverse other in modernity and postmodernity (2001)
- Sarah Morgan, Strength and Grace: Gender and Sport in Fascist Italy (2006)
- Lisa Murray, Cemeteries in nineteenth-century New South Wales: landscapes of memory and identity (2002)
- 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)
- Nayantara Pothen Precedence and protocol : profiles of privilege in New Delhi society, 1931-1950 (2007)
- Margaret Poulos, Arms and the woman: just warriors and Greek feminist identity (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)
- Jean Riley, Censorship of the print trade in Tudor England (2004)
- Martha Sear, Unworded proclamations: exhibitions of women's work in colonial Australia (2000)
- Zora Simic, A hall of selective mirrors : feminism, history and identity 1919-1969 (2003)
- David Smith, Ecology and non-violence across the species barrier?: the German Greens and the politics of animal protection (2007)
- John A. Tebbutt, Through Australian eyes : a cultural history of the foreign correspondent (2002)
- David Trudinger, The comfort of men : a critical history of managerial and professional men in post-war modernisation, Australia 1945-1965 (2004)
- Greg Ussher, The 'medical gaze' and the 'watchful eye' : the treatment, prevention and epidemiology of venereal diseases in New South Wales c.1901-1925 (2007)
- Anne Vidal, Representing Australia Identity 2000-2001: the Sydney Olympic Games and the Centenary of Federation Celebrations (co-tutelle with Paris IV-Sorbonne) (2005)
- Alwyn Williams, The Color of Sound: Jazz and the American Intelligentsia, 1919-1939 (2004)
- Anna Wong, Keeping house for different masters : history, heritage and house museums in Australia (2007)
- Shannon Woodcock, The Tigan is not a man: the Tigan Other as catalyst for Romanian ethnonational identity (2005)