History Department Academic Staff

Profiles

• Professor Robert Aldrich
  Modern European and colonial history, especially France; gay history
• Professor Warwick H. Anderson
  History of science, medicine, racial thought, and the Pacific world
• Professor Alison Bashford
  History of medicine, history and gender, late modern European and British history
• Dr David Brophy
  History of Qing and Republican China; post-Mongol Eurasia; colonialism and national movements; Islam.
• 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 Frances Clarke
  Nineteenth century United States history, women's and gender history, memorialization of warfare
• Associate Professor James Curran
  Australian political, cultural, intellectual and diplomatic history
• Professor Helen Dunstan
  Premodern Chinese history, economic thought and economic policy
• 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
• Dr Nicholas Eckstein
  Early Modern European history, late medieval and renaissance Italy, popular religion, urban history
• Associate Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice
  Early Modern European history, intellectual history, colonization and expansion
• Dr John Gagné
  Early modern Europe, print news, collecting, and war, local-global connections in premodernity, gender, consumerism, consumption, and food
• Professor Stephen Garton
  Australian history, history of psychiatry and mental illness, eugenics, crime and punishment
• Associate Professor Chris Hilliard
  Modern British cultural and intellectual history, New Zealand history
• Dr Julia Horne
  Nineteenth and twentieth century history with emphases on Australia, history of university life, students, travel and landscape
• Dr Miranda Johnson
  Comparative indigenous history; settler colonial history; Australian and New Zealand history; postcolonial theory and race; legal history
• Associate Professor Judith Keene
  Twentieth century European History, film and history
• Dr Claire Lowrie
  Australian history, Southeast Asian history, comparative and transnational history, British colonialism in the tropics and the history of domestic service
• 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
  Modern European History, British and Irish History, maritime history, visual representations
• Associate Professor Michael McDonnell
  History of the Atlantic World, Colonial and Revolutionary United States history, Native Americans
• Associate Professor Mark McKenna
  Australian history, particularly political and cultural history and Aboriginal history
• Associate Professor Kirsten McKenzie
  Australian history, colonialism, gender history, comparative colonial history
• Associate Professor Dirk Moses
  Modern European history, German history, the Holocaust, comparative genocide
  From 2011-2015 A/Prof Moses will be based in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence
• Professor Cassandra Pybus
  Australian history, American history, Transatlantic history
• Professor Peter Read
  Aboriginal Australia, place, oral history
• Associate Professor Stephen Robertson
  Twentieth century United States History, history of sexuality, legal history, digital history
• Professor Penny Russell
  Australian history, women's history, gender history, colonialism and biography and autobiography
• Professor Glenda Sluga
  Modern European History, nationalism and gender history; international history
• Dr Julie Ann Smith
  Medieval history, religious history and women's history
• Associate Professor Richard White
  Australian history; history of travel and tourism
• Professor Shane White
  United States history; African American history; the history of New York City
• Professor John Y. Wong
  Nineteenth and twentieth century Chinese History, international relations and nationalism; Hong Kong

Research Fellows

Profiles

• Dr Kit Candlin
  European, particularly British Colonial History; The Atlantic ‘World’ 1600-1850; Imperialism especially transcolonial and transcultural history and the history of frontiers; British and European History; The history of the Colonial Americas; Slavery.
• Dr Emma Christopher
  Atlantic history, transatlantic slave trade, convict transportation
• Associate Professor Ivan Crozier
  History of psychiatry; History of the body; History of sexuality
• Dr Michael Davis
  Indigenous/European histories and encounters, the relationships between Indigenous and other knowledge systems, Indigenous knowledge, ecology and place, and ethical research and protocols for Indigenous studies.
• Peter Hobbins
  Animals as historical actors; History of Australasian science and medicine; Intersections between quarantine and defence; Integration of archaeology and history; Digital humanities and cliodynamics.
• Dr Tamson Pietsch
  ARC DECRA Fellow - British and imperial history, global and transnational history, history of universities, history of ideas, maritime history (away until Sept 2013)
• Dr Ricardo Roque
  History of human sciences, anthropology of colonialism, racial thought and human biological collections, Portuguese imperial history.
• Dr Blanca Tovias
  History and Literature of the First Nations of the Great Plains (United States and Canada); Imperialism and Colonialism throughout The Americas;The History of Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific, 19th Century; The History and Literature of Revitalization Movements in the Americas.
• Dr Christine Winter
  German Mixed-Race Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandated Territories: Scientific theories, politics and identity transformation; 19th and 20th Century transnational European and Pacific History; German Diaspora Studies; National Socialism; Colonialism and its legacies; Scientific theories and politics of ‘race’.