History Program
Staff Profiles
Dr Lee-Ann Monk
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ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
Room: David Myers Building E124
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2366
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942
Email: l.monk@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Hons) Melb., MA Melb., PhD La Trobe |
Lee-Ann is currently an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry), researching and writing the history of Kew Cottages (Kew Residential Services) as part of an interdisciplinary research team funded by an ARC-Linkage Grant. She is responsible for researching and writing a scholarly history of the Cottages from its establishment as the first specialised institution for people with intellectual disability to its imminent closure. Lee-Ann was the featured researcher in the Public Record's Office Spring 2007 issue of Proactive. This research relates to the research she undertook for her PhD, which focused on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century lunatic asylum attendants, their work and identity.
Lee-Ann has taught Australian and Indigenous History, Australian Studies, Women’s Studies and Legal Studies at several Victorian universities, as well as working as a research assistant on a range of projects, most recently on a project examining photographic representations of rural women’s work.
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Research Publications
Lee-Ann’s publications include:
Books
- Attending Madness: At Work in the Australian Colonial Asylum (Rodopi: Amsterdam - New York, NY, 2008)
Published as a volume in Clio Medica: The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine - Visit Wellcome Trust website.
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Working in the Asylum: Attendants to the Insane", Health and History Special Issue: The History of the Asylum , vol. 11, no. 1 (May 2009), forthcoming.
- ‘“Made enquiries, can elicit no history of injury”: Researching the History of Institutional Abuse in the Archives’, Provenance: The Journal of the Public Record Office, no. 6 (September 2007), - Visit Public Record Office Victoria website.
- ‘“His experience in the Royal Albert would be of great value”: The Influence of the Royal Albert on an Australian Institution for People with Learning Disability’, Unlocking the Past: A Royal Albert Hospital Archive - Visit Unlocking the Past website to access the article.
- 'Gender, Space and Work: The Asylum as Gendered Workplace in Victoria' in 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, Heritage and the Asylum, Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon (eds), University of Queensland Press 2003.
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