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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 Bashford's current research includes the history of immigration law and the history of eugenics. Her forthcoming book is “Geopolitics and the World Population Problem: life and earth in the global twentieth century”.

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My research interests include: nineteenth-century US History; Civil War and Reconstruction; war, trauma and memory; cultural history; gender and race relations in America .

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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’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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Associate Professor Chris Hilliard welcomes research students in modern British history and New Zealand history. .

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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's research and teaching interests are in twentieth century European cultural and political history with a particular interest in inter-war Europe and European cinema. She teaches senior and junior units of study on European history.

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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 joined the Department in July 2002. Prior to this she was a Caird Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich,London (1995-1997), a Vice-Chancellor's post-doctoral research fellow at the University of New South Wales (1998-2000), and a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Architecture, London (2001).

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Associate Professor 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’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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Associate Professor 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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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 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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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’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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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 is currently completing a book on the history of internationalism in the twentieth century, and is researching the international history of cosmopolitanism through a study of women at the Congress of Vienna.

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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's research interests include United States history; African American history; the history of New York City.

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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.

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Professor Stephen Garton is Professor of History and Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He is the author of five 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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