Staff profile

Dr Charles Fahey

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

Arts Building 2.06, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BA (Melbourne), PhD (Melbourne).

Area of study

History
Australian Studies

Brief profile

Charles Fahey joined Latrobe University in 1990 after briefly teaching history at the University of Tasmania in Launceston. Before becoming an academic he was employed as a historian with the Victorian government, where he worked on the conservation of historic sites on crown land and the history of Victorian forestry.

Research interests

Asian History

- Victorian goldfields

Australian History

- Australian farming

- Australian labour market history

Teaching units

HIS1GMS - Migration Stories in a Global Context. HIS2/3ALS - Australian Labour and the State. HIS2/3OWD - Out West and Down Under.

Recent publications

  • Fahey, C. 2008, ‘Moving North: technological change, land holding and the development of agriculture in Northern Victoria’, 1870-1914. In Beyond the Black Stump: histories of outback Australia, ed. Alan Mayne. Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
  • Fahey, C 2007, ‘From St Just to St Just Point: Cornish Migration to Nineteenth-century Victoria’. In Cornish Studies, ed. Philip Payton. University of Exeter Press: Exeter.
  • Fahey, C 2007, ‘Harvester men and Women: The making of the Harvester Decision’ (with John Lack) In The Time of their lives: The Eight Hour Day and working life, ed. Julie Kimber and Peter Love. Melbourne: The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
  • Fahey, C & Lack, J 2008, ‘The industrialist, the trade unionist and the judge: The Harvester Judgement of 1907 revisited’. Victorian Historical Journal. 79(1):3-18.
  • Fahey, C 2000, ‘Two model farmers: Ann and Joseph Day of Murchison’. Victorian Historical Journal. 71(2): 102-23.

Research projects

Charles is part of a multi-university team working on the ARC funded project - Land of the Black Stump, a history of inland Australia 1818-2008. Charles is writing chapters on the long history of the family farm and a study of migration within inland Australia for a book to be published the Black Stump team in 2009.