All research supervisors
Australian studies
Professor Dennis Altman
Dennis' academic interests include sexuality and sexual regulation, politics of HIV/AIDS, politics and culture of the United States and Australia.
Ms Julie Andrews
Julie’s academic interests include childhood, identity and Aboriginal Australia.
Dr Tracey Banivanua Mar
Tracey's academic interests include Race relations, Australian and Pacific Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous studies and Australian and Pacific History.
Professor Peter Beilharz
Peter's academic interests include social theory, labourism, socialism and comparative history of sociology and social theory.
Professor Judith Brett
Professor Brett's academic interests include Australian politics and society, liberalism and political biography.
Professor Richard Broome
Professor Broome’s current research interests focuses on Aboriginal history. Professor Broome has served on the History Institute of Victoria for ten years, and was a consultant to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (
Dr Felicity Collins
Felicity's research interests include Australian national cinema, Australian film and television comedy, gender and spectatorship theory and historical fiction.
Dr Richard Cosgrove
My research and teaching experience has been in human behavioural ecology, rock art studies, palaeoecology, zooarchaeology, stone artefact analysis and hunter-gatherer archaeology.
Dr Peter Davies
Peter's academic interests include the archaeology and languages of the ancient Near East, and has worked extensively on excavations in Cyprus, Turkey and Syria.
Dr Mary Debrett
Mary Debrett has a professional background in television and video production having worked in broadcasting and in the independent sector as a researcher and documentary-maker.
Dr Charles Fahey
Charles' academic interests include the history of the Australian labour market, the Victorian goldfields and Australian farming. He has recently commenced working with Mandy Jean, a heritage architect, on the vernacular housing of the gold
Dr Ruth Ford
Ruth's academic interests include women’s rural labour, landscape and place and whiteness and settler colony identities.
Professor David Frankel
Professor Frankel is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His research interests include Australian Aboriginal archaeology and the archaeology of Bronze Age Cyprus.
Dr Brian Furze
Brian's academic interests include community focused conservation, natural resource management and development in mountain regions of Australia.
Dr Susan Gilbert
Susan's academic interests include community history, heritage and tourism, the history of Mayday Hills Psychiatric Hospital at Beechworth, women political and social activists of the late nineteenth-century.
Dr Trevor Hogan
Trevor’s academic interests include social theory, comparative and historical sociology, cities, religion and the Philippines.
Dr Jennifer Jones
Dr Jennifer Jones is a Lecturer in Australian Indigenous Studies, Historical and European Studies Program, at La Trobe University. Jennifer joined the department in July 2011.
Dr Robert Kenny
Robert’s research interests include the history of science; history of religion; identity and culture; early modern British history; the meeting cosmologies; and the idea of the unconscious. As well as his scholarly publications he has pu
Professor Diane Kirkby
Professor Kirkby's academic interests include the New Left in US history; Australian women's history; histories of art; economic and social history of wheat farming in Victoria; gender and education history in Australia; Feminism and the la
Professor Marilyn Lake
Professor Lake has published 12 books and numerous articles and book chapters in Australian and international anthologies, on subjects ranging from labour history to land settlement, sexuality and citizenship, gender and nationalism, femini
Dr Susan Lawrence
Susan's academic interests include archaeology of British colonisation, gender, and material culture studies.
Professor Robert Manne
Professor Manne's academic interests include Australian political culture and intellectuals and politics.
Dr John Morton
John’s academic interests include indigenous Australia, Anthropology of non-indigenous Australia, structuralism, post-structuralism and psychoanalysis in Aboriginal Studies; symbolism and religion.
Dr Sally Ninham
I have studied at La Trobe University, the Australian National University, RMIT, and the University of Hamburg. I have a PhD from La Trobe where I was supervised by Professor Judith Brett in the department of Political Science.
Dr Alison Ravenscroft
Alison's academic interests include American modernism and postmodernism, contemporary Australian writing, critical race theory and whiteness studies.
Dr Kerreen Reiger
Kerreen's academic interests include Historical sociology of Australian families, feminist theory, health professions and childbearing.
Professor Paul Salzman
Paul's academic interests include early modern writing (especially writing by women, sixteenth and seventeenth century prose, sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century cultural history) and contemporary Australian writing.
Professor Peta Tait
Professor Tait’s academic interests include performing emotions and their social meanings, physical theatre and performance, trapeze history and performing animals in circus, Chekhov’s drama and realistic acting theory.
Dr Gwenda Tavan
Gwenda's research interests include the politics and history of immigration in Australian and transnational contexts, race and racism, nationalism, Australia political culture, leadership studies.
Dr John Tebbutt
John’s academic interests include policies and program strategies in Australian radio and radio cultures and national development.
