Gender, Culture, Sexuality
Research in identities in their diverse forms—including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, disability and nation and how they are shaped by political, social and cultural institutions, bodies of knowledge and relations of power.
Faculty Research Focus
- Identity & diversity
- Feminist history & historiography
- philosophy of the body
Current Projects
- Mapping Matrons: Women's Cultural Patronage Networks in Seventeenth Century
- Northern Italy: from Maria Cristina of Savoy to Vittoria della Rovere.
Search for a Research Supervisor in Gender,Culture,Sexuality.
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.
- Anti-discrimination law - Dr Nicola Henry
- Class-gender-ethnic identity - Professor Kaori Okano
- Diversity - Dr Helen Forbes-Mewett
- Feminism - Dr Philipa Rothfield
- Professor Janna Thompson
- Feminist film theory and media analysis - Dr Sue Gillett
- Feminist theories of subjectivity - Dr Toula Nicolacopoulos
- Feminist theory - Dr Kerreen Reiger
- Gender and sexuality - Dr Katie Holmes
- Gender studies - Dr Kirsty Duncanson
- Gender, identity and agency - Dr Ruth Ford
- Generational change amongst Turkish-Cypriot women in Melbourne - Dr Raelene Wilding
- Identity and diversity - Dr Carolyn D'Cruz
- Lesbian and queer sexual identities in twentieth-century Australia. - Dr Ruth Ford
- Postcolonial theory and representations - Dr Sue Gillett
- Sexual violence and harrassment - Dr Nicola Henry
- Sexuality and sexual regulation - Professor Dennis Altman
- The role of women at the Eureka Stockade and on the Australian goldfields - Dr Clare Wright
- Violence against women - Dr Anastasia Powell
- Women and birth choices - Dr Raelene Wilding
- Youth, gender and sexuality - Dr Anastasia Powell
