Humanities and Social Sciences

Staff profile

Dr Anthony Moran

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

Martin Building 476, Melbourne (Bundoora)

T: +61 3 9479 1671
F: +61 3 9479 2705
E: a.moran@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MA, PhD (University of Melbourne).

Membership of professional Associations

Associate Editor of the international journal, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.

Area of study

Sociology

Brief Profile

Anthony is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, joining the Sociology Program in 2007. He teaches and researches in the areas of: multiculturalism, ethnicity and race, cosmopolitanism, community, nationalism and national identity, Australian political culture, Settler/Indigenous politics, globalisation, and social policy.

Research interests

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy

- Please contact me to discuss a topic.

Australian Government and Politics

- Australian political culture

- Australian politics and society

Migration

- Multiculturalism

Urban Sociology and Community Studies

- Australian communities

- Sociology of culture

Teaching Units

SOC2/3CMS - Community Studies.
SOC2/3SWS - Social Policy, Welfare and the State.
SOC2ISS – Issues in the Social Sciences.
SOC2/3EAI – Social and Political Approaches (co-taught)

Recent Publications

Scholarly Books

Moran, A. and Brett, J. (2006) Ordinary People’s Politics: Australians talk about life, politics and the future of their country, North Melbourne: Pluto.
Moran, A. (2005) Australia: Nation, Belonging and Globalization, London & New York: Routledge.
Moran, A. and Watson, S. (eds) (2005) Trust, Risk and Uncertainty, Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Refereed Journal Articles

Moran, A. (2011) ‘Multiculturalism as Nation-Building in Australia: Inclusive National Identity and the Embrace of Diversity’, Ethnic and Racial Studies 34(12), pp. 2153-2172.
Moran, A. and Brett, J. (2011) ‘Cosmopolitan Nationalism: ordinary people making sense of diversity’, Nations and Nationalism 17(1), pp. 188-206.
Anne-Maree Sawyer, A-M, David Green, D., Moran, A. and Brett, J. (2009) ‘Should the Nurse Change the Light Globe? Human service professionals managing risk on the frontline’, Journal of Sociology (Special Issue on ‘Human Profession Services and the New Public Management’), Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 361-381.
Moran, A. (2009) ‘What Settler Australians Talk About When They Talk About Aborigines: reflections on an in-depth interview study’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 781-801.
Moran, A. (2005) ‘White Australia, Settler Nationalism and Aboriginal Assimilation’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 168-93.

Scholarly Book Chapters

Moran, A. (2013) ‘Race/Ethnicity and Social and Cultural Theory’, in A. Elliott (ed) The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory, London, Routledge (in press).
Moran, A. (2012) ‘Citizenship, Solidarity and the State’, (revised chapter) in Beilharz, P. and Hogan, T. (eds) Sociology: Antipodean Perspectives , second edition, South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Moran, A. (2011) ‘Identity, Race and Ethnicity’, in Elliott, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies, London, Routledge, Ch. 10, pp. 170-185.
Moran, A. (2011) ‘Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism’, in Elliott, A. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies, London, Routledge, 2011, Ch. 20, pp. 347-363.
Moran, A. (2008) ‘White Settler Society’, in J. H. Moore (ed), Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, 3 Vols., Detroit: GALE/MacMillan Reference.
Moran, A. and Garner, S. (2006) ‘Asylum Seekers and the Nation-State: putting the “order” back into “borders” in Australia and the Republic of Ireland’, in R. Lentin and A. Lentin (eds), Race and State, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 103-20.
Moran, A. and Watson, S. (2005) ‘Introduction’, in A. Moran and S. Watson (eds), Trust, Risk and Uncertainty, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
Moran, A. (2005) ‘Trust and Uncertainty in a Settler Society: relations between settlers and Aborigines in Australia’, in A. Moran and S. Watson (eds), Trust, Risk and Uncertainty, Basingstoke: Palgrave, Ch. 12.

Refereed Conference Papers

Moran, A. (2012) ‘Multicultural and Indigenous Imaginaries in Australia’, in Cheshire, L. and Broom, A. (eds) Emerging and Enduring Inequalities: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, University of Queensland, Brisbane.
Moran, A. (2010) ‘Multiculturalism and Australian National Identity’, in Velayuthum, S., Ebert, N. and Watkins, S. (eds) Social Causes, Private Lives: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Moran, A., Sawyer, A., and Green, D. (2007) ‘Managing Risk in Victorian Community Services: preliminary findings from discussions with chief executive officers’, in Curtis, B., Matthewman, S. and McIntosh, T. (eds), Public Sociologies: Lessons and Trans-Tasman Comparisons: TASA/ SAANZ Joint Conference Proceedings, Department of Sociology, The University of Auckland, Auckland.

Other

Moran, A. (2010) ‘Australian Nationalism and its impact on perceptions and relations in the Asia-Pacific region’, Harvard Asia Pacific Review.
Brett, J., Moran, A., Green, D. and Sawyer, A-M. (2010) Managing Risk in Community Services: A Preliminary Study of the Impacts of Risk Management On Victorian Services and Clients: An ARC Linkage Project (2006-2009) Report , School of Social Sciences and the School of Social Work and Social Policy, La Trobe University, Bundoora

Audio Visual Presentations

Anthony Moran ‘Ordinary People’s Politics’ ABC Radio National, Perspective, broadcast 25 October 2006
Anthony Moran ‘Australia’ ABC Radio National, Perspective, broadcast 25 August 2005

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