Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Dr Charles Fahey

Senior Lecturer Room: Arts Building 2.06 Tel: (61 3) 5444 7491 Fax: (61 3) 5444 7970 Email: c.fahey@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA Melb., PhD Melb.

Charles Fahey joined Latrobe University in 1990 after briefly teaching history at the University of Tasmania in Launceston. Before becoming an academic he was employed as a historian with the Victorian government, where he worked on the conservation of historic sites on crown land  and the history of Victorian forestry.

Charles’ research interests are on the history of the Australian labour market, the Victorian goldfields and Australian farming. He has recently commenced working with Mandy Jean, a heritage architect, on the vernacular housing of the goldfields.

Research Projects

Charles is part of a multi-university team working on the ARC funded project- Land of the Black Stump, a history of inland Australia 1818-2008. Charles is writing chapters on the long history of the family farm and a study of migration within inland Australia for a book to be published the Black Stump team in 2009.

Research Publications

• ‘From St Just to St Just Point: Cornish Migration to Nineteenth-century Victoria’, in Philip Payton  (ed) Cornish Studies 15 University of Exeter Press: Exeter, 2007.
• Moving North: technological change, land holding and the development of agriculture in Northern Victoria, 1870-1914, in Alan Mayne (ed), Beyond the Black Stump: histories of outback Australia Wakefield Press: Adelaide, 2008.
• ‘Harvester men and Women: The making of the Harvester Decision’ (with John Lack) in Julie Kimber and Peter Love, The Time of their lives: The Eight Hour Day and working life, The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History: Melbourne 2007.
• ‘The industrialist, the trade unionist and the judge: The Harvester Judgement of 1907 revisited’ (with john Lack), Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 79, Number 1, June 2008.

Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

• Val Lovejoy, The Chinese in Bendigo, 1852-1881
  
• Ray Wallace, A history of the Whipstick Forest
  
• Brenda Chambers, A history of Country Women’s Association