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