Staff profile

Dr Jennifer Hamilton-McKenzie

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

Mildura

 

Qualifications

BA (Adelaide). PhD (La Trobe University).

Area of study

Australian Studies
History

Brief Profile

Jennifer Hamilton-McKenzie’s joined the History programme in 2003, and teaches at the Mildura campus.  Her research interests include Australian regional history; the history of water management and irrigation; rural women’s history; and rural political campaigns.  She is currently working on projects involving the life of irrigation engineer, George Chaffey and the role of ‘boosterism’ in Victoria in the late 1800s.  Jennifer is also interested in tertiary teaching issues which affect the lives of rural women, and is working on a collaborative project in this area with fellow academics.

Recent Publications

Hamilton-McKenzie, J. (forthcoming) Irrigation as Saviour: Transforming Arid Landscapes. In New Visions, ed. C Elder & K Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

Wilson, J, Marks, G, Noone, L & Hamilton-McKenzie, J 2009, ‘Retaining a Foothold on the Slippery Paths of Academia: university women, indirect discrimination, and the academic marketplace’. Gender and Education.

 

Hamilton-McKenzie, J 2009, ‘California Dreaming: Selling the Irrigationist Dream’. Journal of Historical and European Studies. 2: 27-38.