Professor Carolyn Strange

Professor Carolyn Strange
Professor, School of History
Professor, School of History

Phone: (02) 612 52613

I have studied and taught in Canada, the U.S. and Australia. As a specialist in legal, social and cultural history my work focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth-century. I have worked in a variety of disciplines and inter-disciplinary fields, including gender studies, law, criminology, media studies and environmental studies. My research focuses on two clusters of issues: gender, sexuality, medicine, crime, and punishment; and place, memory and identity in modernity.

Through my publications, curatorial work, as well as conferences and public symposia I aim to bridge divides in scholarly communities and to reach out to the wider public.
My latest ARC Discovery Project Grant, awarded in November 2014, is an interdisciplinary team project that connects history with criminology, psychology and contemporary law enforcement. Through quantitative and qualitative methodologies it will interrogate the historical drivers of public perceptions of sex crime, as well as shifting policy responses to sexual offending, from the late-nineteenth to the late-twentieth century in Australia and Canada.

In 2011 I convened a public conference on 'Honour Killing across Culture and Time', which was the ANU Gender Institute's 'Signature Event' of 2011 (see http://history.cass.anu.edu.au/honourkillingconf). In 2009 I convened a symposium, hosted at the National Museum of Australia (see http://www.nma.gov.au/violent_ends/). In 2005 I convened the multi-disciplinary conference, 'Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities', one outcome of which was a special issue of Humanities Research: http://epress.anu.edu.au/hrj/2007_02/html/frames.php .

From 2012 to 2015 I served as Adjunct Professor of Arts, Education and Creative Media at Murdoch University, Perth. From 2010 to 2016 I served as the external academic assessor for Lingnan University.

In 2017 I was appointed Visiting Professor in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto