Dr Cindy McCreery
BA (Humanities) (Yale), MPhil (European and British History) (Oxon), DPhil (Modern History) (Oxon)
Senior Lecturer
Room 811 MacCallum Building
+61 2 9351 4133
Cindy McCreery joined the Department in July 2002. Prior to this she was a Caird Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, a Vice-Chancellor's post-doctoral research fellow at the University of New South Wales, and a lecturer at the University of Oxford and the University of Newcastle (Australia). Her interests focus on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British and European cultural and social history, women's history, satirical prints [cartoons], and British and Australian maritime history.
Research areas
- 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.
Current projects
- Representations of old women in wartime Britain, c 1776-1815
- A Better View: Images of Five Women in late eighteenth-century England
- Maritime Australia: Visual Representations of Australian Port communities, c.1788-1901
- A British Officer on the Margins of Empire: the sketches and diaries of Lieutenant George Frederick Dashwood , c.1830-71
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The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Ports of the World: Prints from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich c.1700-1870 (London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1999).
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'The Sea and Public History in Australia', Journal for Maritime Research (May 2002), http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk.
'True Blue and Black, Brown and Fair: Prints of British Sailors and their Women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars', British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 23, no. 2 (Autumn 2000), 135-52.
'Satiric images of Fox, Pitt and George III: the East India Bill crisis 1783-84', Word & Image , ix, 2 (April-June 1993), 163-85.
Social and cultural history, esp. women's history and maritime history
