Dr Julia Horne

PhD (UNSW)
University Historian
Room J4.11, Main Quadrangle A14

+61 2 9351 2149

Julia Horne is University Historian. She has previously tutored and lectured in history at the University of New South Wales, worked as a curator in social history at the Powerhouse Museum and is the former head of the Oral History Program in the UNSW Archives. At the University of Sydney, the University Historian is responsible for various university history-related tasks such as maintaining the University’s oral history program, developing strategies to promote the University, its heritage and history to the wider community, and where historical information and analysis is required assisting on heritage matters as they affect the University of Sydney.

• The public university in Australasia 1850-1918
• Various aspects of oral history including memory, biography, 'the interview', and oral history as a form of modern personal papers
• Overseas students in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s
• History of travel, tourism and natural landscapes.

• The Public University in Australasia, 1850-1918

The Pursuit of Wonder: how Australia’s landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed, Miegunyah Press (2005).

Not an Ivory Tower: the making of an Australian vice-chancellor, based on interviews with Michael and Jenny Birt, UNSW Archives, Sydney 1997

Jenolan Caves. When the Tourists Came, Kingsclear Press, Crows Nest 1994

J Horne, J Ingleson, L McCarthy, P O'Farrell (eds) Locating Australia's Past: A Practical Guide to Writing Local History in New South Wales, UNSW Press, Sydney 1988.

‘Alice Tay, the making of an intellectual’ in G. Doeker-Mach and K.A. Ziegert, Law, Legal Culture and Politics in the Twenty First Century, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004 pp491-508

‘Australia’ The Literature of Travel and Exploration: an encyclopaedia, Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2003 vol. 1 pp48-52

‘Oral History as Modern Personal Papers: in defence of the long interview’ Oral History Association of Australia Journal no. 25 2003 pp28-30

Anna Iuso and Julia Horne (Australia section) ‘Archives’ Encyclopaedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms Fitzroy Dearborn Publisher London 2001 vol. 1 pp50-53 (c.3500 word article)

• History of tertiary education (including the University of Sydney, affiliated colleges and societies)
• Overseas students in Australia
  
  Oral history, biography, archives and historical collections

‘Liberalism, meritocracy and the idea of the colonial university’ 13th Biennial Conference of the Canadian History of Education Association, Calgary, Canada, 21 to 24 October 2004

‘Women travellers and colonial landscapes’ New Directions, Macquarie University 13 February 2004

Respondent for ‘Museums and History’. Uncover 2003: Graduate Research in the Museum Sector, October 2003

Convener, Ethics Workshop Panel. From All Quarters, Oral History Association of Australia National Conference, Perth, September 2003

‘The University Research Ethics Straitjacket’. Oral History Association of Australia Biannual Conference, August 2001

‘Documenting Women’s Lives in Universities’. Examining Women’s Lives in Universities: A UNSW Archives Public Seminar, July 2001.

‘Miss Eliza Goes Exploring’. Writing the Journey, a conference on American, British and Anglophone Travel Writers and Writing, University of Pennsylvania, June 1999

‘Exploration, Travel and Gender’ Sir Robert Menzies Centre, University of London, February 1998

‘Women in the Archives: producing, collecting and interpreting oral history’. Conference on Labour and Business Archives as Cultural Heritage and Collective Memory: a forum for creators, custodians and historians, organised by the Industrial Relations Centre, UNSW at the State Library of NSW, October 1996

• Contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and the Oxford Companion to Australian History
  Co-convenor of various conferences and symposia including ‘Storylines: a Symposium’ at The University of Sydney, September 2003; Australian Cultural History (1988-94); Australian Culture Workshop (with the State Library of NSW, 1988-93)
• Assistant editor, Australian Cultural History (1988-1994)
• Judge, NSW Premier’s History Awards, 2002
• Respondent for the history sections of the Blue Mountains World Heritage nomination (National Parks and Wildlife Service/Domicelj Consultants), 1998.
• Book reviews for Sydney Morning Herald, Historical Studies, Australian Canadian Studies, Locality, Labour History, the Australian Journal of Politics and History and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of American Studies.