Modern European History in the Department of History
Staff
- Professor Robert Aldrich
France since the Revolution, France's overseas empire, the history of 'sites of memory' and the history of gender and sexuality - Professor Alison Bashford
Modern medical history; the history of gender; the history of science - Professor Barbara Caine
Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing - Dr Marco Duranti
History of Modern Europe, particularly Western Europe in the twentieth century; Transnational history; History of human rights, humanitarianism, development and genocide; History and memory - Associate Professor Chris Hilliard
Modern Europe; Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; history and literature; cultural history of the British empire; New Zealand history. - Associate Professor Judith Keene
Twentieth century history, especially the inter war period; European film and history; the Spanish Civil War - Professor Iain McCalman
Eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history; Popular culture and low life; Uses of media for history - Dr Cindy McCreery
Visual (portraits and engravings, including satirical prints [cartoons]) and press (newspaper and magazine) representations of women in 18 and 19c. Britain; visual and press representations of colonial Australia as a maritime society - Associate Professor Dirk Moses
Modern Germany, World History of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, Historiography, Memory, Intellectual History - Professor Glenda Sluga
Intellectual history of the nation; American and British diplomatic history; the History of International Relations; Gender in European History; Australian immigration History; The Gender History of Human Rights; The History of Trieste; Madame de Stael.
Staff with Research Interests related to Modern European history
- Dr Emma Christopher
- Professor Stephen Garton
- Dr Margaret Poulos (ARC Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Associate Professor Penny Russell
Recent Publications
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A. Dirk Moses, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge University Press, 2007) |
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Robert Aldrich (editor), Gay Life and Culture: A World History (Thames and Hudson, 2007) |
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Glenda Sluga, The Nation, Psychology and international Politics, 1870-1919 (Palgrave, 2006) |
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Chris Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006). |
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Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005) |
Teaching
Junior Units of Study
- HSTY1045 Modern European History 1750-1914
- HSTY1044 Twentieth Century Politics and Culture
Senior Units of Study
- HSTY2605 Contemporary Europe
- HSTY2608 Film and History
- HSTY2625 Culture and Society in Modern Britain
- HSTY2651 The Spanish Civil War
- HSTY2652 Genocide in Historical Perspective
- HSTY2659 Nationalism
- HSTY2684 Darwinism, Nationalism and Eugenics
- HSTY2672 Britain and the World: C.1837-1914
- HSTY2692 International and Diplomatic History
- JCTC2006 The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
Postgraduate Seminars
- HSTY6992 Monuments and History
- HSTY6994 Globalism, Internationalism and the UN
- HSTY6995 Histories of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- HSTY6996 Literary London
Recent Honours Theses
- Philippa Hetherington, Mythos and Eros in Fin de Siecle Russia : Zinaida Gippius’ Sexual Revolution (2006)
Winner of the 2006 Philippe Erdos Prize in History
Research Projects
- Province, Nation, Empire: France, 1871-1940
(Professor Robert Aldrich) - Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963): Visions of 'Man and Nature' in the Twentieth Century
(Associate Professor Alison Bashford (with Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo)) - World Health: the intellectual history of a twentieth century idea
(Associate Professor Alison Bashford) - At the Border: Health, Immigration Restriction and the Imagining of Australia, 1901-2001
(Professor Alison Bashford) - Complex Words: Literary Judgments in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1970
(Associate Professor Chris Hilliard) - Culture and Politics in Popular Front Britain: towards an imperial history
(Associate Professor Chris Hilliard) - Eating and Drinking as Warfare: A Cultural History of the Madrid Diplomatic Corps 1940 to 1945
(Associate Professor Judith Keene) - Scientific voyages in the Antipodes: Thomas Huxley, John McGillivray and the Darwinian Revolution
(Professor Iain McCalman) - Spectacle and Multimedia in late eighteenth-century Europe: A Programme of Written and Multi-Media Histories: The life and work of Philippe de Loutherbourg
(Professor Iain McCalman) - Moral Panics and the Law in Eighteenth-Century England
(Dr Cindy McCreery, with Associate Professor DF Lemmings and Dr CI Walker, University of Newcastle) - "The Racial Century, 1850-1950: Biopolitics and Genocide in Germany and Australia"
(Dr Dirk Moses) - La Bella Liberta: Women, Freedom and the History of Italy c 1800-1940
(Professor Glenda Sluga, Professor Barbara Caine and Professor Ros Pesman)
Postgraduate Study
Recent PhDs
- Baron Alder, The monotony of the new Evelyn Waugh and England between the wars (2004)
- Andrew Beattie, Contested legitimacy after the Cold War: the Bundestag Commissions of Inquiry into the East German past (2005)
- Gábor Ébli, Museums, modern art and cultural policy in Hungary, 1896-1983 (2002)
- John Fahey, Britain 1939-1945 : the economic cost of strategic bombing (2004)
- Antony Howe, The past is ours : the political usage of English history by the British Communist Party, and the role of Dona Torr in the creation of its Historians' Group, 1930-56 (2003)
- Sarah Morgan, Strength and Grace: Gender and Sport in Fascist Italy (2006)
- David Smith, Ecology and non-violence across the species barrier?: the German Greens and the politics of animal protection (2007)
- Shannon Woodcock, The Tigan is not a man: the Tigan Other as catalyst for Romanian ethnonational identity (2005)
Current PhDs
- Claudette Wilkinson
Richard Meinertzhagen and the British Empire, 1878-1967