Dr Frances Clarke
PhD (Johns Hopkins University), BA, Hons. (LaTrobe University)
Lecturer
Room 838, Brennan
+61 2 9351 2880
Research areas
- Nineteenth century U.S. history
- Gender relations
- Cultural history
- Civil War & Reconstruction
Current projects
- Book project: Sentimental Bonds: Suffering, Sacrifice & Benevolence in the Civil War North.
Selected publications
Articles
"So Lonesome I Could Die: Nostalgia and Debates Over Emotional Control During the American Civil War," Journal of Social History 41, 2 (Winter 2007): 253-71.
“‘Let All Nations See’: Civil War Nationalism and the Memorialization of Wartime Voluntarism,” Civil War History 52, 1 (2006): 66-93.
“‘Honorable Scars’: Northern Amputees and the Meaning of Civil War Injuries,” in Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., Union Soldiers and the Northern Home Front: Wartime Experiences and Postwar Adjustments (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002).
Areas of teaching and research supervision
Teaching
- HSTY2634 Columbus to Lincoln: America Before 1865 (semester 2, 2008)
- HSTY2656 A House Divided: The American Civil War (semester 1, 2008)
- HSTY2629 Sex & Scandal
Supervision
- Nineteenth-century U.S.
- History of Race;
- Women and Gender;
- Civil War & Reconstruction
- Nineteenth century reform & protest movements