Professor Kirsten McKenzie
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities BA (Hons) MA Cape Town DPhil Oxon
Professor of History
A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 6668 |
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Biographical details
Kirsten 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 as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1997. She moved to Australia in 1998, taking up a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Queensland and later teaching at the University of New South Wales.
Research interests
Kirsten researches broadly within British imperial history, specifically by connecting British, South African and Australian history in the period 1780 – 1850. She employs the perspectives of cultural history to ask questions about the relationship between identity, social status and political liberties.
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Kirsten teaches units of study in nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history as well as thematic units that situate Australia within broader British Imperial developments. She guides students in developing original research projects through the advanced unit HSTY3901 'History in the Making'
- HSTY2304 Imperialism 1815-2000
- HSTY2614 Australian Social History 1919-1998
- HSTY2619 Living in Colonial Australia
- HSTY2629 Sex And Scandal
- HSTY2678 Race Around the World
- HSTY3901 History in the Making
Supervision
Topics in Australian history generally, particularly social and cultural history, gender history, and colonial Australia
Awards and honours
In 2004 Kirsten McKenzie was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The medal is awarded every two years to an Australian-based scholar in the early stages of their career whose work contributes towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public.
A Swindler’s Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, 2011 and the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2010.
Selected grants
2018
- Remaking the British world after 1815; McKenzie K, Ford L, Roberts D, Doherty S, Lester A, Laidlaw Z, Halliday P, Stern P; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2011
- Personal Liberty, British Identity and Surveillance in the Antipodes, 1780s - 1830s; McKenzie K; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2007
- Social status and political power at the Cape of Good Hope: the cross-colonial connections of William Edwards/Alexander Lockaye.; McKenzie K; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
2006
- University of Sydney - Near Miss Scheme; McKenzie K; University of Sydney (CHASS)/Bridging Support.
2005
- John Dow, convict impostor, and the social hierarchies of colonial Australia; McKenzie K; University of Sydney/Research & Development.
2003
- Scandal in the press: changing gender relations in Sydney 1880-1930; McKenzie K; DVC Research/Research and Development Scheme: Newly Appointed Staff (NAS).
Selected publications
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Imperial Underworld: An Escaped Convict and the Transformation of the British Colonial Order (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
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The Routledge History of Western Empires (Routledge, 2013)
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A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (Harvard University Press, 2010)
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A Swindlers Progress: Nobles and convicts in the Age of Liberty (University of New South Wales (UNSW) Press, 2009)
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Scandal In The Colonies: Sydney And Cape Town, 1820 - 1850 (Melbourne University Press, 2004)
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