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History Program

Postgraduate Supervision and Topics

Supervisor & Research Interests
Bendigo Campus
Dr Yolande Collins Australian medical history - hospital development and organisation in the late nineteenth early twentieth century; rural health; local and community history; regional planning and development and local governance.
Dr Charles Fahey Labour history, rural history and the history of the Victorian Goldfields
Dr Ruth Ford Twentieth-century Australian history; rural labour, gender, identity and place; oral history; history of sexuality
Associate Professor Robert Robertson history of globalization, development history, trade & development strategies, multiculturalism, military coups, and postcolonial history in Fiji & the Pacific.
Albury Wodonga Campus
Dr Susan Gilbert Community history, heritage and tourism, the history of Mayday Hills Psychiatric Hospital at Beechworth, women political and social activists of the late nineteenth-century.
Bundoora Campus
Dr Stefan Auer Nationalism in Central Europe, enlargement of the European Union, political thought of dissident intellectuals
Dr Tracey Banivanua-Mar Race formation & race relations, colonialism & colonial relations, Indigenous studies, Australian & Pacific colonial history
Associate Professor Richard Broome Aboriginal history, Australian immigration, colonial Australia, local history
Associate Professor Philip Bull Irish and British political history from 1800, land and nationalism
Dr Carolyn D'Cruz Identity & diversity, continental philosophy, life writing, censorship, theory & practice, semiotics
Dr Anne Gardner Ancient history, Judaism and Christianity, feminism and the Bible
Dr Claudia Haake Indigenous History of the Americas, US History, Latin American History
Associate Professor Katie Holmes Australian history; women’s autobiographical writings, especially in letters and diaries; war; sexuality; feminism; single women; the experience of time; and the history of disabilities
Dr Adrian Jones Historiography, Russian and Soviet History, Ottoman History, the long Eighteenth Century in Europe.
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Bundoora Campus
Professor Diane Kirkby Feminism and the labour movement in America and Australia, working women, arbitration, intersections of history and law. Author/editor of 3 books including Alice Henry (1992), and Barmaids. A History of Womens Work in Pubs (1997)
Professor Marilyn Lake 19th and 20th century Australian history, especially political history relating to racial and gender equality; transnational history especially with regard to ideas about race and human rights; collective memory and the Myth of Anzac. She has published 12 books, most recently Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective Perspective ( 2005) and the multiple prize-winning Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality( 2008)
Dr Marina Larsson Australian History: Social History of the First World War; History of Health and Illness; Disability History; History of Masculinity and Manhood; Migration History
Associate Professor Tim Minchin US Civil Rights Movement, US history
Author of 6 books, including Fighting Against the Odds (2005) and Hiring the Black Worker (1999)
Dr Jennifer Ridden Irish, British, Australian, Indian and African History, nationalism and national identity, citizenship, civil society and 19th-century liberalism, transnational history and migration
Dr Shannon Woodcock Romani, Romanian & Albanian history in Europe and Australia, post-socialist studies, human rights, feminism & sexuality in Romania and Albania

Dr Clare Wright The role of women at the Eureka Stockade and on the Australian goldfields


The History program provides high quality supervision with regular meetings with your Principal and Co-supervisor and early progress monitored by senior members of the History Program. This ensures feedback is timely for the successful development of your research.

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Last Updated: 30 June, 2008