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Academic Staff Research Interests

 

History

Mr Robert Barnes
Greek and Roman philosophy and religion, ancient Judaism, early Christianity, Roman social history; bibliography, history of books and libraries.

Dr Gordon Briscoe
Indigenous health and demographic transition

Dr Nicholas P Brown
Australian twentieth century cultural, political and environmental history, and Australian biography.

Dr Laurence Brown

African, European and Asian diasporas from the 1500s to the present; collective memory, and the representation of Atlantic slavery in monuments and museums.

Professor Graeme Clarke

Roman Imperial History (especially of the Third Century), Early Church History/Patristic Studies, Archaeology of the Levant in the Classical Period.

Dr Douglas Craig
Twentieth century US political history; World War 1; media history; radio and broadcasting; legal history

Professor Ann Curthoys

Australian history, especially Aboriginal, women's, media, and migration; transnational histories of settler societies; genocide theory and history; historiography; theories of history.

Dr Mark Dawson

The socio-cultural histories of early modern Britain and the Atlantic world; dramatic representations of social hierarchy; the physical embodiment of social inequalities, especially the intersection of status and race.

Professor Desley A Deacon
Gender, feminism, and modernity; modernism; biography; history and sociology of the culture of social science; American and Australian societies and cultures in comparative perspective

Dr Kirsty P Douglas
W eather and Australian meteorology at the time of Federation; the history of the earth sciences; competing sacralisations of heritage and geological heritage, 'national' and local deep-time landscapes and collective national and regional identity.

Dr Christopher Forth

European cultural and social history with an emphasis on modern France; the transnational history of gender, sexuality and the body with particular attention to masculinity, antisemitism, dietetics and obesity; twentieth century popular cultural, especially crime films, detective novels, westerns, film noir, science fiction and comic books.

Dr Debjani Ganguly
South Asian cultural history with a special focus on visual and material cultures, history of caste and untouchability, cross-cultural histories of mixed race, history of religious fundamentalisms, global histories of nonviolence.


Dr Thomas R Griffiths
Australian social, cultural and environmental history, the comparative environmental history of settler societies, the writing of non-fiction, and the history of Antarctica .

Professor Barry Higman
Labour history; history of occupations; slavery and servitude; Australian economic and social history; landscape history; history of food and agriculture; Caribbean history.

Dr Anthea Hyslop
Australian social history; social history of medicine; the Spanish influenza pandemic in Australia, 1918-1919.

Professor Patricia Jalland
The social, cultural and medical history of death, grief and mourning in Australia and Britain, 1830 to the present; the history of ageing; The history of women in Australia and Britain.

Dr Benjamin Kelly
Roman history, especially political, religious and social history, from the late Republic to the end of the Principate. Roman law in its social and political contexts. The history of Graeco-Roman Egypt. The historiography of the late Republic and Principate.

Dr Christa Knellwolf
Early modern literature and culture (17th to 19th century), the formation of European national identity, European exploration and colonisation, the European Enlightenment and its influences, critical theory, creative writing

Dr John Knott
British and Australian history; history of the Second World War; history of technology, history of motoring and road safety.

Dr Rick Kuhn
Australian politics and political economy, Germany, Austria, unions, anti-war movements, fascism, labor/social democratic parties, and
Marxist theory, parties and politics.

Dr Diane L Langmore

Biography (in particular the lives of Dame Enid Lyons and the wives of Australia's governors-general); Australian social history; Mission and Pacific history.

Dr Jill Matthews

History of sexuality; history of popular culture especially silent film; cultural history of modernity; Australian social and cultural history; feminist history.

Dr Elizabeth Minchin
Epic narrative; oral tradition: Greek literature in historical contexts

Professor Iain McCalman
Cultural history, especially of the eighteenth and nineteenth centures, specifically cross-cultural travel writings; British and Irish popular radicalism; popular culture and romanticism,

Profesor Ann McGrath
Gender and Colonialism; Australian indigenous history; comparative and trans-national history of frontiers in Australia and North America; Birth, Marriage and intermarriage; Law, Justice and History; Museums, Museology and Public History; Art and Visual Evidence in History.

Ms Frances C Peters-Little

Aboriginal arts and media; Aboriginal recent political history and identity;
Indigenous higher education

Dr Paul Pickering
Nineteenth century Australian political and social history, commemoration, heritage and public history.

Professor Beryl Rawson
Roman history, especially social and political history of the late Republic and first three centuries of the Empire;
Iconography. In particular, 'The Roman Family' and 'Children and Childhood in Ancient Rome'.

Dr Timothy M Rowse
Twentieth century Australian history - including government policies towards Aboriginal people, and Aboriginal responses to colonisation (both nationally and with reference to Central Australia); cultural policy;the history of official statistics.

Timothy P Sherratt
Science and progress in twentieth century Australia

Dr Carolyn Strange
History of gender and sexualities; the cultural and political dimensions of crime, deviance and punishment.

Dr Caroline Turner
American History and the history of museums

Dr Lorenzo Veracini
Comparative historiography, comparative history of colonial systems, Indigenous-settler relations, settler societies