Research Supervisor Connect
After receiving my doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 2002, I worked for a year as a researcher for the American Historical Association in Washington D.C. In 2003, I took up a lectureship in the University of Sydney’s History Department. Since that time, I have taught courses on a range of topics in U.S. history, from the colonial era through to the early twentieth century. My research specialties include the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era; war, memory, and trauma; the history of childhood; and the social, cultural, and political history of the nineteenth-century U.S. My first book, War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), jointly won the AHA’s biennial Hancock prize for the best first book in any field of history. I subsequently began a series of collaborations with Associate Professor Rebecca Jo Plant (UCSD), first to write about the racial politics of war memory in the interwar U.S. and, more recently, to examine debates over youth enlistment in post-Revolutionary America.
Associate Professor Frances Clarke.
History, School of Humanities (SOH)
Research interests:
Supervisions:
Topics in U.S. history generally, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction, war and memorialization; gender and race relations.
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When contacting them, you should describe your academic educational background and research experience, and include an academic transcript and CV (resume). You should also include a research proposal (1500-2000 words); refer to How to write a research proposal for guidance. You should explain why you want to undertake a PhD and how you believe your research topic aligns with the supervisor’s own research. You may be asked to supply a sample of written work.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3149