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Academic staff
Professor Angela Woollacott
Head of School
Ph: 61 2 6125 2715
Email: Angela.Woollacott@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian history; British Empire and postcolonial history; women’s and gender history; transnational history; whiteness and settler colonialism.
Dr Paul Arthur
Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography
Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 2349
Email: Paul.Arthur@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian history, literature and culture; biography and life writing; digital humanities and e-research; dictionaries and encyclopedias; history of technology and media; early modern travel and empire; cross-cultural history; literary history; cartography.
Dr Gregory Barton
Research Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 3055
Email: Gregory.Barton@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: British, empire and environmental history.
Dr Gemma Betros
Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2720
Email: Gemma.Betros@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Modern European history (especially France); Enlightenment; French Revolution; Napoleonic Empire; history of women; religious.
Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno
Associate Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 6125 0318
Email: Frank.Bongiorno@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian political, cultural and labour history; Australian historiography.
Dr Nicholas Brown
Senior Fellow
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 3052
Email: Nicholas.Brown@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian twentieth century cultural, political and environmental history; Australian biography.
Dr Allison Cadzow
Research Fellow
Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Ph: 61 2 6125 3267
Email: Allison.Cadzow@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s military service especially community perspectives, women’s participation and issues of recognition; environmental and city histories in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women’s expedition accounts and cross-cultural histories.
Dr Alexander Cook
Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2717
Email: Alexander.Cook@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Modern British and French history; history of political thought and political culture; commercial society; the Enlightenment; empire; public history; historical theory and method.
Dr Douglas Craig
Reader
Ph: 61 2 6125 2712
Email: Douglas.Craig@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Modern United States history.
Dr Mark Dawson
Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2713
Email: Mark.Dawson@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: early modern Britain and Atlantic world; early modern English drama and literature; histories of social inequality and the body.
Dr Karen Fox
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 8359
Email: Karen.Fox@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Famous lives, reputations and biographies; media and cultural history, especially gender and race; comparative and trans-national history of settler societies, particularly Australia and New Zealand; women’s, gender and feminist history; colonialism and imperialism; Aboriginal Australian and Maori history; Nineteenth and twentieth century Australian and New Zealand history.
Dr Samuel Furphy
Research Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 2358
Email: Samuel.Furphy@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian history; British settler colonialism; Aboriginal history; biography and life writing.
Dr Kynan Gentry
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 9630
Email: Kynan.Gentry@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Histories of heritage; perceptions and representations of the historic landscape; history and philosophy of place; public history; digital history; the politicization of historical narrative.
Dr Christian Goeschel
Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2714
Email: Christian.Goeschel@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: European history; social and cultural history of modern Europe; German history.
Professor Tom Griffiths
W.K. Hancock Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 6125 3345
Email: Tom.Griffiths@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian cultural and environmental history; the comparative environmental history of settler societies; the history of Antarctica.
Professor Pat Jalland
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 6125 3054
Email: jalland@coombs.anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: History of women in Britain and Australia; social, cultural and medical history of death, grief and mourning in Australia.
Dr Rani Kerin
Research Fellow, National Centre of Biography
Research Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 0156
Email: Rani.Kerin@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian Biography; Australian Indigenous History; Humanitarianism; Counter-Cultural History.
Dr John Knott
Senior Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2722
Email: John.Knott@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: British and Australian history; history of the Second World War; history of technology; history of motoring and road safety.
Dr Shino Konishi
Research Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 0157
Email:Shino.Konishi@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: History of maritime exploration of Australia and the Pacific; first contact narratives; histories of race, the body and masculinity; and 18th century studies.
Dr Amanda Laugesen
Lecturer
Ph: 61 2 6125 2718
Email: Amanda.Laugesen@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian history (excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History); North American history; Lexicography.
Professor Ann McGrath, FASSA OAM
Professor
Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Ph: 61 2 6125 4850
Email: Ann.Mcgrath@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: 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.
Professor Melanie Nolan
Director
National Centre of Biography
General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 2131
Email: Melanie.Nolan@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Labour history with a particular interest in the politics of work; 20th century Australian and New Zealand social history; and biography.
Dr Maria Nugent
Research Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 2445
Email: Maria.Nugent@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian Aboriginal History; public history; history, memory and oral history; and cross-cultural history.
Dr Carolyn Strange
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph: 61 2 6125 2613
Email: Carolyn.Strange@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: gender, sexuality, medicine, crime, and punishment; place, memory and identity in modernity. Canadian, U.S. and Australian modern history.
Dr Martin Thomas
ARC Future Fellow
Ph: 61 2 6125 2352
Email: M.Thomas@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: perception and representation of landscape; history and philosophy of place; cross-cultural histories in Australia; Aboriginal studies; legacy of the Australian anthropologist R.H. Mathews; Visual and auditory culture; The American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948.
Adjuncts
Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia
Dr Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
Dr Jacqui Huggins, FAHA, University of Queensland
Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney
Professor Carroll Pursell, Ph: 6125 8360
Professor Peter Read, University of Sydney
Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University
Emeritus Professors
Em Prof Ken Inglis
Email: ksinglis@bigpond.com
Emeritus Professor Barry Higman
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 6125 2348
Email: Barry.Higman@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Historical geography and historical demography, with particular reference to Australia and the West Indies
Em Prof Barry Smith
Email: barrys@coombs.anu.edu.au
Professor Desley Deacon
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 52356
Email: deacon@coombs.anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Gender, feminism, and modernity; modernism; biography, history and sociology of the culture of social science; American and Australian societies and cultures in comparative perspective.
Professor Graeme Clarke
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 54789
Email: graeme.clarke@anu.edu.au
Catherine Akeroyd
Phone: 6125 7466
Email: cathakeroyd@optusnet.com.au
Thesis title: Terra Australis as a Framework for Knowledge: A Cartographic/Iconological Study
Alessandro Antonello
Phone: 6125 3290
Email: Alessandro.Antonello@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Scientific and environmental diplomacy and the Antarctic, 1945-1980
Edwin Birks
Phone: 6125 5114
Email: Edwin.Birks@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: The role of religious polemic in the construction of ethnic identity in early medieval Britain
Cath Bishop
Email: Cathbishop@bigpond.com
Thesis topic: The Hidden Colonial Workforce: Women and Work in Sydney and New Zealand 1830-1880
Isabella Bruckback
Thesis Topic: An Economic and Social History of the Australian Wool Industry 1930-1950
Kylie Carman-Brown
Phone: 6125 2357
Email: Kylie.Carman-Brown@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Environmental history of Gippsland hydrology
Murray Chisholm
Phone: 6125 2357
Email: Murray.Chisholm@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: History of the Opposition to Capital Punishment
Lissa Coleman-Fraser
Valerie Cooms
Phone: 6125 2291
Email: Valerie.Cooms@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: An examination of the implementation and objectives of both State and Commonwealth Governments' Indigenous policies in Queensland from 1965 to 1975
Abby Cooper
Email: abby.cooper@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Sporting Grounds and Boxing Rounds: Indigenous sportspeople from the Western District, Victoria 1865-today
Jacqui Donegan
Email: jddonegan@bigpond.com
Thesis topic: The Confectionary Kings: Robertson, Allen and Hoadley A collective biography, 1887-1967
Louise Douglas
Phone: 6125 4794
Email: Louise.douglas@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Australian participation in international exhibitions, 1851-1939
Kim Doyle
Phone: 6125 2357
Email: Kimberley.Doyle@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Australian peacekeeping in the post-Cold War period as a menas to explore the gendered legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
Emily Duthie
Phone: 6125 2721
Email: Emily.Duthie@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: The Empire at Home: Poverty, Social Work and Empire in Nineteenth-Century England
Arnold Ellem
Phone: 6125 7465
Email: Arnold.Ellem@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: A Changing Pattern in Lines: the introduction of barcode technologies into Australia - 1965 to 1980
Nola Errey
Email: proteas@netspace.net.au
Thesis topic: Aboriginal whalers of Two Fold Bay
Serene Fernando
Email: serene.fernando@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Strengthening our voice: a post-colonial narrative of the Kamilaroi people of north-west NSW
David Fettling
Phone: 6125
Email: David.Fettling@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Ben Chifley, Asian Revolution and Australian foreign policy
Fiona Firth
Email: Fiona.firth@gmail.com
Thesis Topic: The New Settler Tribes of the Bega Valley
Nicola Francis
Phone: 6125 3689
email: Niki.francis@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Biography of Rosalie Gascoigne
Brett Goodin
Phone: 6125 7467
Email: Brett.Goodin@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: The influence and life stories of three American captives of Barbary pirates upon the development of concepts of race, liberty and nationhood in the early U.S. republic
Gregory Hall
Adam Henry
Phone: 6125 0392
Email:adam.henry@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Manufacturing choices in Australian Foreign Policy 1957-1967
Les Hetherington
Email: lesrob@bigpond.net.au
Thesis topic: 'Vaillante Soeur': Marie Caroline Niau and her family in France, England and Australia, 1850 to 1933
Margaret Hutchison
Phone: 6125 5698
Email: Margaret.hutchison@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Commonwealth Official War Art Schemes of the First World War
Paul Irish
Phone: 6125 4794
Email: paulirish@optusnet.com.au
Thesis topic: A study of Aboriginal people and places in south-eastern Sydney from 1840-1900
Jacqui Lambert
Thesis topic: A History of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies 1959 -1989: An analysis of how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people achieved control of a national research institute.
Spencer Leineweber
Email: spencer.leineweber@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Negotiating with the Power of Place in Post Contact Hawaii 1824-1854
Craig Mewett (Mphil)
Email: craigmew@bigpond.net.au
Thesis topic: The Jazz Revolution Revisited: the meanings of Jazz in the Interwar United States
Bernard Muggeridge
Email: Bernard.Muggeridge@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: The History of Preaching in the 20th Century Australian Catholic Church
Lawrence Niewójt
Email: lniewojt@coombs.anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: An Environmental History of the Otway Region, Victoria
Christian O'Brien
Phone: 6125 4044
Email: chrisob@coombs.anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Travails in the Troposphere: A history of weather in northern Australia
Shannyn Palmer
Email: Shannyn.Palmer@anu.edu.au
Thesis Topic: Landscapes in Kakadu, NT or Central Australia
Robert Paton
Phone: 6125 2291
Email: Robert.Paton@anu.edu.au
Thesis Topic: Trade and communication and the flow of knowledge within and between some Indigenous communiteis and important sites across the central/northern NT
Laura Rademaker
Email: Laura.Rademaker@anu.edu.au
Thesis Topic: History of Missions
Anne Rees
Shelley Richardson
Phone: 6125 4455
Email: Shelley.Richardson@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: A Collective Biography of the urban middle class elite family in Australasia 1880-1930
Sophie Scott-Brown
Phone: 6125 2721
Email: Sophie.Scott-Brown@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Reading the times; Raphael Samuel and the politics of history production in late 20th century Britain.
Blake Singley
Phone: 6125 4794
Email: Blake.Singley@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: The Imagined Pudding: Australian Identity and Its Representation in Culinary Texts
Barrina South
Phone: 6125 0426
Email: Barrina.South@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Tiddas' Landscapes: uncovering Aboriginal women's histories of place in NSW.
Sarah Tooth
Email: Sarah.Tooth@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: A biography of Gertrude Bell, 1868-1926
Julia Torpey (University of Sydney)
Phone: 6125 2291
Email: Julia.Torpey@anu.edu.au
Thesis Topic: Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring Indigenous Landscapes of National and International Significance
Christine Wallace
Phone: 6125 6851
Email: chris.wallace@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Julia Gillard: The Politics of Political Biography
Stephen Wilks
Email: stephen.wilks@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: Earle Page and the Shape of Australia - a study of ideas about national development in the twentieth century
Selena Williams
Phone: 6125 7466
Email: Selena.Williams@anu.edu.au
Thesis topic: 'Taking the Long Journey' - Australian women who served with allied countries during World War One
Beth Wright
Email: beth@bethandrob.com
Thesis topic: The history of the content of Australian population census
Visitors
Visiting Fellows
Professor Lawrence Goldman, January - March
Dr Margaretta Jolly, June - August
A/Professor Lawrence Peskin, June - July
Professor Jeremy Popkin, July - August
Dr Jan Rueger, April - June
School Visitors
Dr Brett Bennett
Dr Adele Chynoweth
Dr Robert Clements
Dr Tania Colwell
Dr Barbara Dawson
Mr Ian Hancock
A/Professor Grace Karskens
Dr Kathryn Spurling
Dr John Tillotson
Dr Elizabeth Truswell
Dr Ian Walker
Dr Susan Mary Withycombe
