Australian History
This research explores the national history of culture, race, class, gender, heritage and the arts in Australia including colonial and post-colonial studies, Australian at war, feminism, the history of disabilities and Australian environmental history.
Faculty Research Focus
- Australian Environmental History
- Australian Colonial History
- Australian labour history
Current Projects
- The transnational history of the Chinese Nationalist Party.
- An international history of Australian democracy: the impact of Australian innovation overseas and of international human rights in Australia.
- Cultural landscapes of colonial water management in Victoria's Central Highlands.
- Unlocking Australia's Chinese archive: the political organisation and social experience of the Chinese Australian community, 1909-1939.
- Australian generations: life histories, generational change and Australian memory.
- Working Women on the Land.
Past Projects
Research Interests
The Faculty will consider any research topic that interests potential PhD students; however, students will benefit from researching in areas that align with the Faculty’s strengths. Please contact the Faculty to discuss your PhD topic.
Alternatively you may contact one of our academics below to discuss your area of interest.
- Dr Jennifer Jones
- 19th and 20th century Australian history - Professor Marilyn Lake
- Dr Katie Holmes
- Australian and Pacific Colonialism - Dr Tracey Banivanua Mar
- Australian farming - Dr Charles Fahey
- Australian labour market history - Dr Charles Fahey
- Australian postgraduate students and American postrgraduate degrees - Dr Sally Ninham
- Australian women's history - Professor Diane Kirkby
- Collective memory and the Myth of Anzac - Professor Marilyn Lake
- Colonial Australia - Professor Richard Broome
- Colonial Violence and Postcolonial Ethics - Dr Felicity Collins
- Community history - Dr Susan Gilbert
- Comparative colonialism - Dr Patrick Wolfe
- Cultural and educational diplomacy - Dr Alice Garner
- Environmental history - Dr Katie Holmes
- Feminism and the labour movement in America and Australia - Professor Diane Kirkby
- The Dawkins Educational Reforms of the late 1980's - Dr Sally Ninham
- Women’s rural labour - Dr Ruth Ford
