Staff profile
Dr Susan Gilbert
Associate Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Historical and European StudiesRoom 4230, Albury-Wodonga
- T: +61 2 6024 9724
- F: +61 2 6024 9811
- E: s.gilbert@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
BA (Hons-Adelaide), PhD (Flinders).
Area of study
History
Australian Studies
Research interests
Australian History
- Community history
Political Theory and Political Philosophy
- women political and social activists of the late nineteenth-century
Teaching units
- HIS1AHC - Australian History: Colonial.
- HIS2/3CHA - Community and History in Australia.
Recent publications
Gilbert, S 2006, ‘Finding a Balance: Heritage and tourism in Australian rural communities’. Rural Society. 16(2): 186-198.
Research projects
Sue is investigating of the lives and social networks of four women who were activists for social and political reform in late nineteenth century Adelaide. She plans that the research will expand beyond the Adelaide context to encompass the work of women in other British colonies, with a specific interest in New Zealand.
