About
Professor Stephen Garton-
Professor Stephen Garton is Challis Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He is the author of four books and over sixty articles, chapters and encyclopaedia and historical dictionary entries in such areas as the history of madness, psychiatry, crime, incarceration, masculinity, eugenics, social policy, poverty, returned soldiers, masculinity and sexuality.
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Dr Julie Ann Smith-
Dr Smith has a major research focus at present of the nunnery rules and constitutions of the 10th-15th centuries. She also researches the history of women pilgrims of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, in particular, relating to women’s accounts of their pilgrimages and the processes through which they constructed their identities as pilgrims.
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Associate Professor Alison Bashford-
Associate Professor Bashford is Chair of the Department of History in semester 1, 2008. She has published widely in the cultural history of medicine and public health.
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Professor Robert Aldrich-
Professor Robert Aldrich teaches and carries out research in modern European and colonial history, especially the history of France since the Revolution and of France's overseas empire, the history of 'sites of memory' and the history of gender and sexuality. .
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Professor Warwick H Anderson-
As a historian of biology, medicine and public health, focusing on Australasia, the Pacific, Southeast Asia and the United States, Dr Anderson is especially interested in ideas about race, human difference, and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Occasionally he writes programmatically on postcolonial science studies and, more generally, on science and globalization.
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Dr Frances Clarke-
Dr Frances Clarke's research interests include: Nineteenth century US history; Gender relations; Cultural history and Civil War & Reconstruction.
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Dr Clare Corbould-
Dr Clare Corbould’s research interests include the history of African Americans and the African diaspora. Other interests include histories of sound, performance, and the politics and cultures of United States empire.
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Dr James Curran-
Dr Curran’s doctoral thesis aimed to discover how, after the collapse of the Federation certainties, Prime Ministers Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke and Keating attempted through their rhetoric to remake the image of the Australian community, and how they reconstructed Australia’s relations with the world. The thesis was published by Melbourne University Press in 2004 under the title The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image.
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Dr Nicholas Eckstein-
Dr Nicholas Eckstein is a Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies. His research interests include: Social and cultural history of Late-Medieval, Renaissance and Early-Modern Italy, especially Florence; Neighbourhood and social interaction; popular religion and lay devotion; daily life; urban culture and the social context of art.
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Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice-
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice’s research interests include: Early Modern British, European and Atlantic history; intellectual history; the history of political thought and the history of colonisation. .
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Dr Chris Hilliard-
Dr Chris Hilliard’s research interests include Modern British history, history and literature, popular intellectual life, colonization and culture in New Zealand.
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Dr Julia Horne-
Dr Julia Horne’s research interest include: 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 and History of travel, tourism and natural landscapes. .
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Associate Professor Judith Keene-
Associate Professor Judith Keene is the Director of the European Studies Centre at The University of Sydney and a member of the Department of History. Her research and teaching interests are in twentieth century European cultural and political history with a particular interest in inter-war Europe and European cinema.
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Professor Iain McCalman-
Professor Iain McCalman’s research interests include: Eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history; Popular culture and low life and Uses of media for history. .
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Dr Cindy McCreery-
Dr 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).
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Dr Michael McDonnell-
Dr Michael McDonnell’s research interests include: Early and Revolutionary Virginia; American Revolution; Native Americans in North America; Cultural intermediaries and brokers; Popular politics in the early Atlantic and Labour, race, class and class struggles in the early Atlantic. .
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Associate Professor Mark McKenna-
Associate Professor Mark McKenna’s research interests include: Australian history, particularly political and cultural history and Aboriginal history. Over the last decade Associate Professor McKenna has published mainly in two areas - the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy and Aboriginal history.
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Dr Kirsten McKenzie-
Dr McKenzie began teaching Australian History in the Department in 2002. She has a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Cape Town and completed her DPhil at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1997.
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Dr Lynette Olson-
Dr Olson's research has focused on early medieval Cornwall and now Brittany, but her interests are Europe-wide. She likes to use archaeological research in historical study, have developed an interest in religious change as cultural change, and regard the early Middle Ages as one of the most interesting periods of women's history.
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Professor Cassandra Pybus-
Professor Cassandra Pybus has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labour, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines.
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Professor Peter Read-
Professor Peter Read comes to the History Department from the ANU where he has worked for most of his academic life. There he lectured in Australian and Aboriginal history, held a Research Fellowship in the Urban Studies Program, an ARC Research Fellow, an ARC Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, and was Deputy Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies.
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Dr Stephen Robertson-
Prior to joining the Department of Histsory, Dr Stephen Robertson was a post-doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago (1997-98), and the JNG Finley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at George Mason University (1998-99). He also taught for a semester at Massey University in New Zealand.
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Associate Professor Penny Russell-
Associate Professor Penny Russell’s research focuses on the 'small talk' of history in Australia and England, seeking within private writing and the intimacies of social encounters (domestic and exotic) the political landscapes of gender and class, race and colonisation. She is fascinated by snobs and social climbers, scandals large and small, and the mysterious ways people lived, loved and learned in times past.
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Professor Glenda Sluga-
Professor Glenda Sluga has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, the history of European nationalisms, gender history, and is interested in the history of identity and difference more broadly. She has just completed a study of the international history of the idea of the nation in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is currently researching two new books, one on Madame de Stael, and the other on the United Nations.
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Dr Martin Thomas-
Most of Dr Martin Thomas’ work is in the field of Australian cultural history. He is interested in perceptions of place, representations of landscape and narratives of cross-cultural encounter.
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Dr Jonathan Walker-
Dr Jonathan Walker’s research interests include: Spies and diplomats in early seventeenth-century Venice; noble crime and criminal law in early modern Venice; historical fiction (novels and films); photography and history and modernization in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Venice. .
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Professor Richard Waterhouse-
Professor Richard Waterhouse’s research interests include Australian history; cultural history and rural history. .
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Mr Richard White-
Mr 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.
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Professor Shane White-
Professor Shane White's research interests include United States history; African American history; the history of New York City.
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Dr John Wong-
Dr Wong is Reader in History. He completed his doctorate at Oxford University in 1971, was a research fellow at Oxford University in 1971-4, and has been teaching at Sydney University since 1974.
History
Summary
The department of History, the oldest and largest History department in Australia, has internationally recognised scholars researching and publishing in the areas of Asian history, Australian history, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern European history and United States history.
Supervisor(s)
Professor Stephen Garton, Dr Julie Ann Smith, Associate Professor Alison Bashford, Professor Robert Aldrich, Professor Warwick H Anderson, Dr Frances Clarke, Dr Clare Corbould, Dr James Curran, Dr Nicholas Eckstein, Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice, Dr Chris Hilliard, Dr Julia Horne, Associate Professor Judith Keene, Professor Iain McCalman, Dr Cindy McCreery, Dr Michael McDonnell, Associate Professor Mark McKenna, Dr Kirsten McKenzie, Dr Lynette Olson, Professor Cassandra Pybus, Professor Peter Read, Dr Stephen Robertson, Associate Professor Penny Russell, Professor Glenda Sluga, Dr Martin Thomas, Dr Jonathan Walker, Professor Richard Waterhouse, Mr Richard White, Professor Shane White, Dr John Wong
Research Location
Department of History, Faculty of Arts
Program Type
N/A
Synopsis
Research students have access to the Faculty’s Postgraduate Research Centres, and to the outstanding research collection at the Fisher Library. The department holds regular colloquia, at which staff and visiting academics present up-to-the-minute research findings and scholarly papers.
Key research areas for supervision include:
- Asian history
- Australian history
- Medieval history
- Early Modern and Modern European History
- American/ United States history
- Australian Studies
- Classics and Ancient history
- History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
- International history (including a strand of colonial or imperial history)
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Keywords
Australian history, medieval, early modern, modern European history, United States history, Asian history
Opportunity ID
The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is: 449