Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Teaching: HIS2/3 MMH - Memory, Myth and History; HIS1PPP - People, Power and Protest

Current research: An examination of personal experiences of the Australian homefront between 1914 and 1918.

Publications:
A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War, Perth, University of Western Australia Press, 2007.

‘A kind of round trip: Australian soldiers and the tourist analogy 1914-18’, War & Society, Vol. 25 No. 2, October 2006, pp. 39-52.

‘Who Owns Gallipoli? Australia’s Gallipoli anxieties 1915-2005’, Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 88, 2006, pp. 1-12, 161-3.

‘Claiming the Dead: Great War Memorials and their Communities’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volume 89, Part 2, December 2003, 145-61.

Forthcoming:

‘Mourning and commemoration in Australia: the case of Sir W. T. Bridges and the Unknown Australian Soldier’, History Australia, December 2007 (forthcoming).

‘Great War, Total War’, in Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788, Melbourne, Thomson Learning, 2007 (forthcoming).