All research supervisors
History
Dr Stefan Auer
Stefan's academic interests include the self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe, political thought of dissident intellectuals and nationalism in Europe, and more recently the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the project of Euro
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.
Mr Tony Barta
Research interests include 20th Century German history; especially. relations between social life, culture and ideology; genocide in colonial societies; History media.
Dr Lisa Beaven
Lisa’s academic interests include art and travel, landscape painting and ecology in the Roman Campagna, antiquarianism and the history of collecting in early modern Europe, and landscape theory.
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 Philip Bull
Philip's academic interests include Irish and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contemporary political issues relating to Ireland or Britain and land and nationalism.
Dr Roland Burke
Roland’s research interests include the origins of human rights, decolonization, and twentieth-century guerrilla and national liberation movements.
Dr Ian Coller
Ian’s research interests include the French Revolution and the global history of the Revolutionary age; the relationship between Europe and the Muslim world since the eighteenth century; the modern Middle East and North Africa; Islam, div
Dr Rhiannon Evans
Rhiannon works on Roman literature and culture and its place in the Ancient Mediterranean, with a special focus on ancient identity.
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.
Dr Anne Gardner
Anne’s academic interests include Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean history and historiography, Hebrew Bible, Inter-Testamental Literature including the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, with a special interest in Apocalyptic. Other
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 Claudia Haake
Claudia Haake's primary research interest is Native American History from the 19th century onward. She is especially interested in North American Natives from Mexico and the US.
Dr Katie Holmes
Katie's academic interests include History of sexuality, women and ageing, women’s wartime diary writing, women’s friendships, landscape and garden, environmental history.
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 Adrian Jones OAM
Adrian is an Europeanist with wide interests. He reads Russian, French and Turkish. His current research interests focus on Russian and Ottoman history, especially the eighteenth century, and on historiography
Dr Caroline Jordan
Caroline’s academic interests include Australian art: colonial to modern, women artists, exhibition culture and the development of visual arts infrastructure in Australia.
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
Professor Timothy Minchin
Professor Minchin's research interests are in twentieth-century U.S. History, particularly the history of the southern states, civil rights history, and labour history.
Dr Adelina Modesti
Adelina’s academic interests include Gender and social history, women’s cultural production and female patronage networks in early modern Italy and Europe.
Dr Ralph Newmark
Director, Institute of Latin American Studies Lecturer in History. Ralph Newmark has been the Director of ILAS since 2008 and was co-editor of the international refereed journal JILAS~Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies for over a
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 Jennifer Ridden
Jennifer's academic interests include the histories of Ireland (including Northern Ireland), Britain, the British Empire, and their Historiographies, between the 18th and 20th centuries.
Dr Emma Robertson
Emma's research interests include Social and cultural histories of Britain and empire in the twentieth century, Women’s and gender history, Labour history, Histories of race and migration, BBC World Service
Dr Ingrid Sykes
Ingrid Sykes joined the History Program at La Trobe in July 2011. Her research is concerned with cultural, political and medical history in modern Europe.
Dr Patrick Wolfe
Patrick's academic interests include race, colonialism, theories of imperialism, genocide, the history of anthropology and Aboriginal history.
Dr Clare Wright
Clare's academic interests include the role of women at the Eureka Stockade and on the Australian goldfields.
