History Program
Staff Profiles
| Dr Adrian Jones |
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Senior Lecturer
Room: David Myers Building E105
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2461
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: adrian.jones@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA Melb., MA La Trobe, MA Harv., PhD Harv. |
Research and Professional Interests
Adrian teaches European history, but researches topics in Russian, Ottoman and French history, and in historiography, ancient and modern. Adrian is also a leader in the wider professional community of historians and of history. Since 2003, Adrian has served as chair of the History Council of Victoria (http://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/), the state body linking every sector of history (academics, teachers, professional writers, curators and archivists). Adrian also serves on key education policy bodies: since 1999, as Convener of all Humanities subjects for the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, and as one of two foundation Directors of the National Centre for History Education (http://hyperhistory.org), 2000-03.
Current Research Project
Adrian is working concurrently on two projects. The first is a series of articles on historiography. Adrian is interested in ‘vivid history’; he adapts (Heidegger-ian) existentialist philosophy to re-consider the basis of story and of the evocative in history. Adrian’s second project is a cultural history of a Russian-Ottoman encounter in the era of Peter the Great and Ahmed III: the Battle of the Prut, 1711. He is interested in the many stories told (or not told) about the battle in Russia, in eighteenth-century Europe, and in Turkey.
List of Major Publications
‘Towards a New Structural Theory of Revolution: Universalism and Community in the French and Russian Revolutions’ English Historical Review, 107: 3 (October 1992), pp. 862-900.
Late-Imperial Russia: An Interpretation: Three Visions, Two Cultures, One Peasantry, Bern, Peter Lang, 1997, 457 pp. (ISBN 3-906757-12- 9)
‘Easts and Wests Befuddled: Russian Intelligentsia Responses to the Russo-Japanese War’ in The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, eds David Wells & Sandra Wilson, Macmillan, 1999, ch. 7.
Follow the Gleam: A History of Essendon Primary School, 1850-2000, Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2000, 234 pp. (Winner of the Information Victoria award for the Best Book Publication in History, 2001)
‘Word and Deed: Why A Post-Poststructural History Is Needed and How It Might Look’ The Historical Journal, 43: 2 (June 2000), pp. 517-41.
‘Introduction: Which Social History of Russia?’ and ‘The Village as Votchina (Вотчина): Attitudes to Property in the Post-Emancipation Russian Village’ The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 27: 2-3 (2000), pp. 135-41, 179-99.
‘History Teaching in Australia: Stories are needed as well as analysis’ Australian Historical Association Bulletin, 96 (June 2003) 27-42.
‘The Liberation of Distance’ Meanjin, 62: 1 (2003), pp. 155-66.
‘A Note on Atatürk’s Words about Gallipoli’ History Australia, 2: 1 (December 2004), 10: pp. 1-10.
‘What Lies About There and Then: Phenomenologies for History’ Historically Speaking: The Bulletin of the Historical Society of the USA, 7: 2 (November-December 2005).
‘How should we travel?’ Meanjin, 64: 4 (2005), pp. 199-202.
‘Peripheral Vision: A Russian Bourgeois’ Arctic Enlightenment’ The Historical Journal, 48: 3 (2005), pp. 623-40.
‘Reporting in Prose: Reconsidering History’s Ways of Analysing’ forthcoming: The European Legacy, 12: 2 (March 2007).
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