Mr Richard White

BA DipEd (Sydney)
Senior Lecturer
Room 847 Brennan Building

+61 2 9351 4511

Richard White is a graduate of the University of Sydney and after teaching at Monash University and the University of Western Sydney, joined the Department in 1989. He teaches in all areas of Australian history, as well as the history of travel and tourism.

• Australian cultural history
• Nationalism and national identity
• History of travel and tourism

• Cooee: its rise and fall (contracted with Melbourne University Publishing, for publication 2006)
• Driving to Australia: overland journeys between Europe and Australia 1888-1972

On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia Pluto, Melbourne, 2005 (with Sarah-Jane Ballard, Ingrid Bown, Meredith Lake, Patricia Leehy, Lila Oldmeadow)

Cultural History in Australia University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 2003 Hsu-Ming Teo & Richard White (eds)

Memories and Dreams: Reflections on twentieth-century Australia: Pastiche 2 Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1997 Richard White & Penny Russell (eds)

The Oxford Book of Australian Travel Writing Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1996 Pesman, Ros, David Walker & Richard White (eds)

Pastiche 1: Reflections on Nineteenth Century Australia Allen & Unwin Australia, Sydney 1994 Penny Russell and Richard White (eds)

Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980 Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1981

‘Adventures in Collaboration: Writing History with Students’ History Australia: journal of the Australian Historical Association 1(2) July 2004

‘National Days and the National Past in Australia’ Australian Cultural History 22, 2003

‘Cooees across the Strand: Australian Travellers in London and the Performance of National Identity’ Australian Historical Studies 32(116) April 2001

'The Retreat from Adventure: Popular Travel Writing in the 1950s' Australian Historical Studies vol 28, no. 109, October 1997

'Australian Identity post 1980: Whatever happened to the Typical Australian?' in P H Peters (ed) [[i||Australian English in a Pluralist Australia: Proceedings of Style Council 95] , Dictionary Research Centre, Macquarie University, 1995

'Getting Civilised: the arrival of the First AIF in Europe, 1915' Australian Studies (London) May 1991

'Sun, Sand and Syphilis: Australian Soldiers and the Orient, Egypt 1914' Australian Cultural History no.9, 1990

'The Soldier as Tourist; The Australian Experience of the Great War' War & Society May 1987

'Motives for Joining Up: Self-Sacrifice, Self-Interest and Social Class 1914-1918' Journal of the Australian War Memorial October 1986

'Bluebells and Fogtown: Australians' First Impressions of England 1860-1940' Australian Cultural History 1986

'A Backwater Awash: The Australian Experience of Americanisation' Theory Culture & Society Spring 1983

'"Combating Cultural Aggression": Australian Opposition to Americanisation' Meanjin October 1980 v.39, Oct 1980

'"The Australian Way of Life"' Historical Studies (now Australian Historical Studies) v.18, Oct 1979

'"Americanisation" and Popular Culture in Australia' Teaching History August 1978 v.12, August 1978

‘Symbols of Australia’ in Martyn Lyons and Penny Russell (eds) Australia’s history: Themes and Debates UNSW Press, Sydney 2005

‘Imagining: Representing Australia’ in Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber (eds) Yesterday’s Tomorrows: The Powerhouse Museum and its Precursors 1880-2005 Powerhouse Publishing in association with UNSW Press, Sydney 2005

'Inventing Australia Revisited' in Wayne Hudson and Geoffrey Bolton (eds) Creating Australia: Changing Australian History Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1997

'The Outsider's Gaze and the Representation of Australia' in Don Grant and Graham Seal (eds) Australia in the World: Perceptions and Possibilities Black Swan Press, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, 1994

'The Shock of Affluence', introductory essay to Judith O'Callaghan(ed) The Australian Dream, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 1993

'Passing Through : Tuscany and the Australian Tourist' in Gaetano Prampolini and Marie-Christine Hubert(eds) An Antipodean Connection: Australian Writers, Artists and Travellers in Tuscany Geneva 1993 (Biblioteca del Viaggio in Italia: Studi, 47)

'Boyd, the Suburb and the Australian Way of Life' in Karen Burns and Harriet Edquist (eds) Robin Boyd Melbourne 1992(special issue of Transition no 38, 1992)

'The Imagined Community : Nationalism and Culture in Australia' catalogue essay for Jonathan Watkins (curator), Stories of Australian Art Commonwealth Institute, London 1988

'War and Australian Society' in Margaret Browne and Michael McKernan (eds), Australia : Two Centuries of War and Peace Australian War Memorial, Canberra,1988

'Overseas' in Bill Gammage and Peter Spearritt (eds), Australians 1938, a volume of Australians : A Historical Library Fairfax Syme Weldon, Sydney 1987

'The Importance of being Man: The Australian Magazine for Men' in Peter Spearritt and David Walker (eds) Australian Popular Culture Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1979

• HSTY2004 Making Australia 1880-1930
• HSTY2014 Australian Social History since 1919
• HSTY2019 Australia to 1888
• HSTY3001 Histories of Travel and Tourism
• HSTY3002 Issues in Travel and Tourism
• HSTY3003 Problems in Australian Cultural History
• HSTY3004 Issues in Australian Cultural History
• HSTY3612 Sydney: An Autobiography

• Australian history generally – particularly cultural history, nationalism and travel – and the history of travel and tourism.

Postgraduate supervision

Completions

Samantha Frappell 1996 Building Jerusalem: Church and society in New South Wales, 1940-1956

Deborah Edward 1998 Sydney's suburban Catholic community: mission and parish, 1860-1890

Julia Baird 2001 Housewife superstars: female politicians and the Australian print media, 1970-1990

Ana Carden-Coyne 2001 Revenge of the body: modern classicism in postwar culture, 1918-1933

Angela Macdonald 2001 Hollywood bound: a history of Australians in Hollywood to 1970

Melissa Harper 2002 The ways of the bushwalker: bushwalking in Australia, 1788-1940

John Tebbutt 2002 Through Australian eyes: a cultural history of the foreign correspondent

Sascha Jenkins 2004 Our Harbour: a cultural history of Sydney Harbour 1880-1938

Anne Vidal 2005 Representing Australia Identity 2000-2001: the Sydney Olympic Games and the Centenary of Federation Celebrations (co-tutelle with Paris IV-Sorbonne)

Current

Jill Barnes The History of Tourism in Central Australia

Caroline Ford The Emergence of Popular Beach Culture in Sydney

Laina Hall History of Overland Travel as a Leisure Activity in Australia from 1920

Geoff Howarth The Role of Professor R G Howarth in the Australian Literary Network

Nina Koutts Chinatowns as Generic Tourist Sites

Meredith Lake Protestant Visions of the Australian Landscape

Maya Le A Cultural History of Buddhism in Australia

Toby Martin Yodelling Boundary Riders: Country Music in Australia’

Tony Moore Australia’s Bohemian Tradition

Katy Nebhan Australian Muslim Masculinities

Olwen Pryke Australia House and the Australian Abroad

Alex Roberts The Development of Community Facilities in Sydney and Melbourne since 1945

Agnieszka Sobocinska Australian Tourism in Asia since 1940

Mathew Trinca Part of the Pageant: Australian Tourists in London after World War 2

In 2004, Richard White gave papers to conferences in Newcastle, Birmingham, Cardiff, Beijing and Kangaroo Island; in 2005 he will be giving papers at the International Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism conference, the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia and King’s College, London.