Staff profile

Dr Alice Garner

Postdoctoral Fellow

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E113, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

History

Brief Profile

Alice Garner joined La Trobe University’s History Program in 2009 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Industry), working on ‘A Study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949-2009’, an ARC-funded Linkage project. Research interests include educational exchange and cultural diplomacy, travel and tourism history, French social and cultural history (19th-early 20thc), Australian refugee and asylum seeker policy, spatial representation and early hitchhiking history.

Research specialisation

- Australian History

- European History

- North American History

Recent Publications

Journal articles:

  • ‘Piggybacking Monsieur and Madame: Seaside tourism and the fisherwomen of Arcachon - La Teste’ in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Comparative Perspectives Symposium on ‘Fishwives’, 37(3) (Spring 2012), 594-602.

Books:

  • The Student Chronicles (Carlton: MUP - Miegunyah Press, 2006).
  • A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town, 1823-2000 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005). Shortlisted for the NSW Premiers History Awards, General History category, 2005.

Book reviews:

  • Review of Alison McKinnon, Women, Love and Learning: The Double Bind (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010) in Australian Historical Studies 43, 2012, 139-140.
  • Review of Whitney Walton, Internationalism, National Identities, and Study Abroad: France and the United States, 1890-1970 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010). Available to read on H-Net Review for H-Education)
  • 'The Diamond Scholars', review of Philip Ziegler, Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships (on H-Net Review for H-Education, March 2011) at http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30857
  • ‘Reading the Readers’, review of Martin Lyons’ Reading Culture and Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France, in History Australia 7(1), 2010, 17.1-17.2.

Other:

  • 'Rose Petal Bangs', preface to republication of Greg Dening 1991 lecture, 'Claptrap, Art and Science', in Written Into History: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Melbourne Historical Journal 1961-2011 (School of Historical Studies, Melbourne University, 2012).
  • 'Learning to Play', in Issue One of Open Field, an iPad magazine raising money for CARE projects for women (2012). Available at www.openfield.com.au/
  • Entry on 'Seaside Resorts’in Encyclopedia of Modern Europe 1789-1914, eds John Merriman and Jay Winter (New York: Charles Scribner’s sons), 2006.

Oral history interviews for the National Library of Australia: A series of whole-of-life interviews for the Fulbright Scholars oral history project, recorded in 2009-2010, and catalogued in the NLA Oral History and Folklore Collection, with the following: Jeremy Hearder, Bill Ford, Keith Neighbour, Ruth Fink, Dale Hebbard, Peter van Sommers, Elaine Barry, Garth Nettheim, William Riedel, Arnold Zable, Adele Millerd, Murray Littlejohn, Hugh Collins, Nancy Viviani, Sherry Saggers, Peter Coaldrake, Michael Good, Joanne Daly, Kaye Basford, Angus Trumble, Deborah May, Peter Newman and Samia Goudie.

Conference papers:

  • ‘The Fulbright Program and Australian-US Relations since 1949’ at Inter-University United States Studies Conference, Monash University, 30 September 2011.
  • With Diane Kirkby, ‘Cultural Freedom and International Exchange in the Australian-American Fulbright Program’s Cold War’ at Communism Vs Democracy: Remembering the 1951 Referendum on the Banning of the Communist Party 60th Anniversary conference, Melbourne University, September 2011.
  • ‘Moving Rights Along: the Australian-American exchange and indigenous and civil rights’, paper presented at Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter? Cultural Diplomacy, Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies since World War II conference. Vienna, Austria, November 2010.
  • ‘The Fulbright Program and American Studies’, paper presented at the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association conference, Adelaide, July 2010.
  • ‘Where Fulbright and Carnegie meet’, paper presented at Philanthropy and Public Culture: The Influence and Legacies of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in Australia, an Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia workshop, Melbourne University, February 2010.
  • ‘Risk and Reward: the (lost?) art of hitch-hiking’, paper presented at the 2nd International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 5-8 May, 2008. Proceedings online at http://www.ictlconference.com/
  • ‘Time and the Hitchhiker’, paper presented at Borders and Crossings/ Seuils et traverses, bilingual conference on Travel and Travel Writing, Melbourne University, 2008.

Research projects

  • A study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949-2009, with Professor Diane Kirkby, Professor D. Altman and Professor D. Walker.