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Professor Diane Erica Kirkby

Professor Diane Kirkby

Professor & Deputy Dean
Room: David Myers Building E123
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2379
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: diane.kirkby@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA UNSW, PhD Calif.

 

Professor Kirkby currently teaches USA Art and political cultural history; Australian history centuries; history of Food and Drink; film in history. Her research interests include:Labour history and gender; Women's work and popular culture; law and history; feminism. Professor Kirkby won the WK Hancock Prize for her book Alice Henry:The Power of Pen and Voice.

Research Projects

Marriage women and property in 19th century Australia; Australian seafarers and their union.

A study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949-2009 with Professor D Altman, Professor D walker and Dr A Garner (ARC Linkage Project)

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Research Publications

Selected Publications include

  • Voices From the Ships: Australia's Seafearers and Their Union, UNSW Press, 2008
  • Co-editor with Tanja Luckins, Dining on Turtles; Food Feasts and Drinking in History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
  • Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice: The Life of an Australian-American Labor Reformer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Alice Henry was the winner of the WK Hancock Prize, 1995.
  • Barmaids: A History of Women's Work in Pubs [1790-1990s], Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Editor of Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Co-Editor of Law History Colonialism: The Reach of Empire, Manchester, Manchester University Press, and N.Y. Palgrave, 2001.
  • Dealing With Difference: Essays in Gender, History and Culture, Melbourne, Melbourne University, 1997.

Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

Two previous PhD students have won the Australian Historical Association Serle Prize for the Best Thesis in Australian History:
Tanja Luckins, (in 2001) for her thesis "Gates of Memory:Loss Memory and the Great War in Australia "
and Marina Larsson,(in 2008) for her thesis, "The Burdens of Sacrifice:War Disability in Australian Families 1914-39."

Currently supervises students working on the New Left in US history; Australian women's history; histories of art; economic and social history of wheat farming in Victoria; gender and education history in Australia

Research Grants

Professor Kirby was recently awarded an ARC Linkage Grant, with Professor D Altman, Professor D walker and Dr A Garner, of $235,773 over three years (2009-2011) for their project A study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949-2009. Collaborting Partner - Australian-American Educational Foundation (Fulbright Commission), National Library of Victoria.

 

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