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History Program
Staff Profiles
Dr Timothy Minchin
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Associate Professor & Deputy Head of the School of Historical and European Studies
Room: David Myers Buliding E119
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2376
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: t.minchin@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: MA St Andrews, PhD Cant. |
Timothy Minchin joined the program in 2004 as a Senior Lecturer and was promoted to Reader and Associate Professor in 2006. A native of the UK, he previously taught at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Cambridge, where he held the Mellon Research Fellowship in American History between 1995 and 1998. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on two occasions. He has won a number of research prizes, including a Leverhulme Prize for Research Excellence (2002-4) and the Richard A. Lester Prize from Princeton University in 1999.
Tim's research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. History, particularly the history of the southern states, civil rights history, and labor history.
Tim has just completed 'Moving to the Land of Freedom: Black and White Southerners in an Era of Change, 1965-2007.' This is a large study that is co-written with John Salmond, who is emeritus professor of American History at La Trobe. This project is currently in-press. He is also undertaking a broad study of the decline of manufacturing industries in the U.S. from 1950 to the present day.
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Selected publications include:
Books
- From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2007
- Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2005. (Selected as an 'Outstanding Academic Title' by Choice Magazine, 2005)
- ‘Don't Sleep With Stevens!': The J.P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963-80, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2005.
- Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism in the BASF Lockout, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2003.
- Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. (Winner of the Richard A. Lester Prize)
Major Articles
- “Making Best Use of the New Laws: The NAACP and the Fight for Civil Rights in the South, 1965-1975,” Journal of Southern History 74:3 (August 2008), pp. 669-702.
- One America?: Church Burnings and Perceptions of Race Relations in the Clinton Years, Australasian Journal of American Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2,(2008) pp.1-28.
- An Uphill Fight: Ernest F. Hollings and the Struggle to Protect the South Carolina Textile Industry, 1959-2005, South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 109, No. 3, 2008, pp.187-211.
- “Beyond the Dominant Narrative: The Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1968-1980,” Australasian Journal of American Studies 25:1 (July 2006), pp.65-86.
- "The Milledgeville Spy Case and the Struggle to Organize J.P. Stevens," Georgia Historical Quarterly 90:1 (Spring 2006), pp.96-122.
- "'Don't Sleep With Stevens!': The J.P. Stevens Boycott and Social Activism in the 1970s," Journal of American Studies 39:3 (2005), pp.511-543.
- “ ‘A Brand New Shining City’: Floyd B. McKissick Sr. and the Struggle to Build Soul City, North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review 82:2 (April 2005), pp.1-31.
- “Organizing a Labor Law Violator: The J.P. Stevens Campaign and the Struggle to Unionize the US South, 1963-1983,” International Review of Social History 50 (2005), pp.27-51.
- " 'It tears the heart right out of you': Memories of Striker Replacement at International Paper Company in De Pere, Wisconsin, 1987-88,” Oral History Review 31:2 (Summer-Fall 2004), pp.1-27.
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Tim can supervise in most aspects of North American history since the Civil War era, and La Trobe has excellent library resources in North American history. He currently acts as principal supervisor for the following students:
- Ross Brooks (Ph.D.) - “The Visual Culture of the Confederacy.”
- Neil Crowle (Masters) - “Irish Americans during the Civil War.”
Tim has won a number of major research grants, including a Leverhulme Prize for Research Excellence worth $125,000 (2002-4) and an Australian Research Council Grant of $138,000 (2006-8). The ARC grant is held with Professor John Salmond and is being used to fund our co-written history of the long civil rights movement. Tim has recently won an ARC discovery grant of $161,893 over three years (2009-2011)for his project Made in the USA?:The Decline of the American Manufacturing Economy, 1950-2008.
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