Areas of Staff Research & Supervision - Historical Studies

Ancient History

• Gillian Bowen
  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; the archaeology and history of early Christianity; Roman numismatics; ancient Egyptian textiles; aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture; Coptic textiles.
• Colin Hope
  

  The archaeology of ancient Egypt with particular reference to the Western Desert, and cultural interaction between ancient Egyptians and their western neighbours; ancient Egyptian and western desert ceramics; Egyptianizing monuments in Australia and collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia.

  Recent Completions
  Caroline Hubschamm, 'The oases of the Western Desert of Egypt druing the Third Intermediate and Late Periods: the study of a regional identity.' (PhD 2009)
  Amy Pettman, 'Ain el-Gazzareen: New Insight into the Old Kingdom – Egyptian Presence n the Dakhleh Oasis.' (MA 2009)
  Ashten Warfe, 'A Study of the pottery remains from early and mid-Holocene sites in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.' (PhD 2008)
  Joylene Kremler, 'The Origin and Development of Frog Amulets and Figures in Ancient Eygpt and their relationship to the Goddess Heqet.' (MA 2008)
  Lainie O'Brien, 'Aspects of Kingship in the Reign of Thutmose III'. (MA 2007)
  Richard Long, 'Egypt’s Western Oases during the New Kingdom (c.1550-1069 B.C.E.).' (MA 2007)

• Nathan Wolski
  

  Biblical archaeology and history; Jewish mysticism; Jewish existentialist thinkers, including Buber and Levinas; Zohar; Spanish Kabbalah

Archaeology

• Gillian Bowen
  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; the archaeology and history of early Christianity; Roman numismatics; ancient Egyptian textiles; aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture; Coptic textiles.
• Colin Hope
  

  The archaeology of ancient Egypt with particular reference to the Western Desert, and cultural interaction between ancient Egyptians and their western neighbours; ancient Egyptian and western desert ceramics; Egyptianizing monuments in Australia and collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia.

  Recent Completions
  Caroline Hubschamm, 'The oases of the Western Desert of Egypt druing the Third Intermediate and Late Periods: the study of a regional identity.' (PhD 2009)
  Amy Pettman, 'Ain el-Gazzareen: New Insight into the Old Kingdom – Egyptian Presence n the Dakhleh Oasis.' (MA 2009)
  Ashten Warfe, 'A Study of the pottery remains from early and mid-Holocene sites in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.' (PhD 2008)
  Joylene Kremler, 'The Origin and Development of Frog Amulets and Figures in Ancient Eygpt and their relationship to the Goddess Heqet.' (MA 2008)
  Lainie O'Brien, 'Aspects of Kingship in the Reign of Thutmose III'. (MA 2007)
  Richard Long, 'Egypt’s Western Oases during the New Kingdom (c.1550-1069 B.C.E.).' (MA 2007)

• Nathan Wolski
  

  Biblical archaeology and history; Jewish mysticism; Jewish existentialist thinkers, including Buber and Levinas; Zohar; Spanish Kabbalah

Asian History

• Ian Copland
  

  British Imperial history, in particular the history of indirect rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; comparative colonialism; post-colonialism; modern South Asian history.

• Jane Drakard
  I am available to supervise honours and postgraduate dissertations in any area of Southeast Asia history. My area of particular expertise is in Indonesian and Malay history, but I have also supervised Honours, Masters and PhD theses in Burmese and Vietnamese history. In addition I have supervised a number of dissertations in the area of the Vietnam War and currently have two PhD students working in that field. I am also interested in supervising projects in broader areas of colonial history and cross-cultural interaction.

  I would be happy to discuss supervision with any student interested in these topics and in co-supervising with colleagues from other parts of the University where appropriate.

Australian History

• Bain Attwood
  Australian and New Zealand indigenous history; cross-cultural history; public history; history and theory; oral history and history and memory.

  Completed Theses
  Maria John, 'Responsible Witnessing: Narratives of Tragedy and Failure in Van Diemen’s Land.' (MA 2009)

• Marc Brodie
  British nineteenth century urban and working-class history; Australian regional political history; popular conservatism.
• Barbara Caine
  Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing.

  My principal teaching interests lie in the areas of Late Modern European cultural and social history, in debates about historiography and historical method, in questions about gender and history, about sexuality and in the broad area of history and biography. I supervise research in these areas, but also in work on women's history and questions of gender in European, Australian and Southern African History.

  Current Supervision
  Bryony Cosgrove, Australian Women’s Letters
  Sally Dammery, 'Menarche in cross-cultural perspective'
  Patricia Armstrong-Grant, 'A Biography of Dame Joan Hammond'
  Carolyn Adams, 'Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Out of the Shadow: Reconstructing Frieda Strehlow as Missionary Wife in Central Australia, 1895-1922.' (PhD 2009)
  Carly Millar, 'Bessie Rischbieth: A Biography.' (PhD 2008)
  Josie Monro, 'Gender and Anxiety in Revolutionary London: Representations of Men and Women in the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.' (PhD 2008)
  Richard Scully, 'Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.' (PhD 2008)
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the Maiden: Representing Women through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' (PhD 2006)
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, Political, Polemical: Contemporary Feminisms and the Problem of Prostitution.' (PhD 2005)
  Angela Argent, 'Exotic Creatures: Feminist intellectuals in Prague in the 1990s' (PhD 2003)

• Katherine Ellinghaus
  

  Colonial history; Transnational and Comparative History; Interracial relationships; Indigenous assimilation policies; Social and cultural history of the United States and Australia and Gender history.

• Andrew Markus
  

  Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought - and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.

  Completed Theses
  Jonathan Landes, 'History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives.' (MA 2009)
  Selena Costa-Pinto, 'Narrating Contemporary Migration - Indian women in Melbourne.' (PhD 2008)
  Julie Fenwick, 'Dealing with a Nation': Conceptualizing Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990. (PhD 2007)

• Seamus O'Hanlon
  

  Australian Aboriginal history (1770 to present), including Aboriginal history-making; historical memory and oral history; public history; postcolonialism and history.

• Mark Peel
  

  Social and cultural history of the United States and Australia; masculinity and sexuality; deviance, crime and disorder, urban history; history of welfare and disadvantage; oral history, memory and life narratives.

• Marian Quartly
  

  Australian social, political, and religious history; women's history and gender history.

  Completed Theses
  Richard Peterson, 'Jessie Vasey: the making of a conservative feminist.' (PhD 2009) Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)
  Beau Collins, 'Voluntary Associations for Victorian Children 1872-1910.' (PhD 2008)
  Nick Dyrenfurth, 'Heroes and Villains: the Cultural Politics of Australian Labour, 1878-1918.' (PhD 2008)
  Josephine Dunin, 'Canaries in a Mine'. Post Release Support for Young Offenders in Melbourne 1964-1981. (MA 2008)
  Kate Murphy, 'Gender and the Rural-Urban Divide: Fears and Fantasies of the Australian Elite, 1900-1930.' (PhD 2007)
  Brenda Joyce, 'Civil Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Australia: Secular or Sacred?'. (MA 2007)

• Christina Twomey
  

  Gender and welfare, nineteenth-century humanitarianism in relation to indigenous people, Australian women's history, war and commemoration in Australia, histories of captivity

  Completed Theses
  Simon Sleight, 'The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne, c. 1870-1901.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)

• Carol Williams
  

  Medieval and Renaissance music; medieval popular culture; time and music; word-music relationships; early music theory; Australian music history; women's music.

Bible History

• Gillian Bowen
  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; the archaeology and history of early Christianity; Roman numismatics; ancient Egyptian textiles; aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture; Coptic textiles.
• Michael Fagenblat
  Jewish philosophy; Midrash and Jewish hermeneutics; comparative theology and exegetical interaction (Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim); Emmanuel Levinas; Moses Maimonides; political theology; secularisation.

  Completed Theses
  Shira Nahari, 'Synagogues in Late Second Temple Period'. (PhD 2007)

• Paul Forgasz
  

  Jewish History, including ancient and medieval; Bible; Midrash; Jewish-Christian relations.

• Nathan Wolski
  

  Biblical archaeology and history; Jewish mysticism; Jewish existentialist thinkers, including Buber and Levinas; Zohar; Spanish Kabbalah

Biography & Life Writing

• Barbara Caine
  Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing.

  My principal teaching interests lie in the areas of Late Modern European cultural and social history, in debates about historiography and historical method, in questions about gender and history, about sexuality and in the broad area of history and biography. I supervise research in these areas, but also in work on women's history and questions of gender in European, Australian and Southern African History.

  Current Supervision
  Bryony Cosgrove, Australian Women’s Letters
  Sally Dammery, 'Menarche in cross-cultural perspective'
  Patricia Armstrong-Grant, 'A Biography of Dame Joan Hammond'
  Carolyn Adams, 'Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Out of the Shadow: Reconstructing Frieda Strehlow as Missionary Wife in Central Australia, 1895-1922.' (PhD 2009)
  Carly Millar, 'Bessie Rischbieth: A Biography.' (PhD 2008)
  Josie Monro, 'Gender and Anxiety in Revolutionary London: Representations of Men and Women in the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.' (PhD 2008)
  Richard Scully, 'Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.' (PhD 2008)
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the Maiden: Representing Women through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' (PhD 2006)
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, Political, Polemical: Contemporary Feminisms and the Problem of Prostitution.' (PhD 2005)
  Angela Argent, 'Exotic Creatures: Feminist intellectuals in Prague in the 1990s' (PhD 2003)

British History

• Marc Brodie
  British nineteenth century urban and working-class history; Australian regional political history; popular conservatism.
• Ian Copland
  

  British Imperial history, in particular the history of indirect rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; comparative colonialism; post-colonialism; modern South Asian history.

• Seamus O'Hanlon
  

  Nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian and British urban, social and cultural history; youth cultures; immigration history; history of technology; heritage, museums and public history; histories of housing.

Classics (Greece & Rome)

• Gillian Bowen
  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; the archaeology and history of early Christianity; Roman numismatics; ancient Egyptian textiles; aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture; Coptic textiles.

Egyptology

• Gillian Bowen
  Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt; the archaeology and history of early Christianity; Roman numismatics; ancient Egyptian textiles; aspects of ancient Greek and Roman history and culture; Coptic textiles.
• Colin Hope
  

  The archaeology of ancient Egypt with particular reference to the Western Desert, and cultural interaction between ancient Egyptians and their western neighbours; ancient Egyptian and western desert ceramics; Egyptianizing monuments in Australia and collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia.

  Recent Completions
  Caroline Hubschamm, 'The oases of the Western Desert of Egypt druing the Third Intermediate and Late Periods: the study of a regional identity.' (PhD 2009)
  Amy Pettman, 'Ain el-Gazzareen: New Insight into the Old Kingdom – Egyptian Presence n the Dakhleh Oasis.' (MA 2009)
  Ashten Warfe, 'A Study of the pottery remains from early and mid-Holocene sites in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.' (PhD 2008)
  Joylene Kremler, 'The Origin and Development of Frog Amulets and Figures in Ancient Eygpt and their relationship to the Goddess Heqet.' (MA 2008)
  Lainie O'Brien, 'Aspects of Kingship in the Reign of Thutmose III'. (MA 2007)
  Richard Long, 'Egypt’s Western Oases during the New Kingdom (c.1550-1069 B.C.E.).' (MA 2007)

European History (Medieval)

• Peter Howard
  I am keen to supervise research in relation to culture and belief in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy. My specific area of interest is the relationship of theology to society, using sermons, art, ritual and related materials as sources. Beyond this I supervise theses on art and material culture in the Renaissance and early modern periods. I also supervise projects related to the history of theology and the history of the church, including the modern period. I have a major in music history and literature in my primary degree, and so I also supervise projects which include musical culture.

  Current postgraduate thesis topics under my supervision include:

  PhD

  • Finding Space in Early Modern Tuscany: Imagining Place and Constructing Identity in Prato and Montepulciano
  • 'John XXIII, Vatican II and the politics of aggiornamento: Angelo Roncalli's analysis of the works of St Charles Borromeo (1538-84) in relation to late 20th century church reform'
  • 'Religious Attitudes to Conscription in Australia for the Vietnam War'

  MA

  • 'Secularisation and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999)'
  • 'Ebionite origins and history'
  • 'The Symbolic Power of Silk in Renaissance Florence'
  • 'Belief and Politics in Contemporary Australia'
  • 'Cognizione del Mondo: containing, enclosing, and preventing an "awareness of the world" within Vincenzo Borghini's L'Ospedale degli Innocenti’

  Completed Theses
  Peter Price, 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'. (PhD 2009, main supervisor)
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervisor)
  Jodi Hodge, ' Slender Bonds and Bitter Seas: Mary Magdalen in Mendicant Literature and Imagery' (MA 2006, sole supervisor)
  Cecilia Hewlett, 'Rural Communities and Renaissance Florence: Autonomy and Interdependence (1480 – 1550) '. (PhD 2004, associate supervisor)
  Garry Deverell, 'The Bonds of Freedom: Vows, Sacraments and the Formation of the Christian Self'. (PhD 2004, joint supervisor)
  Wendy Madden, '"Shining Virtue": Veronica Gambara – The Lady of Correggio' (MA 2003, sole supervisor)
  Justine Heazlewood, '"Letters are the Leaves, Prayers are the Fruit": Florentine Nuns in th City'. (MA 1999, joint supervisor).
  Natalie Tomas, 'The Medici Women: gender and Power in Renaissance Florence'. (PhD 1997, associate supervisor).

• Carolyn James
  I am keen to supervise projects in medieval and renaissance history, especially cultural and social history. My specific interests are Italian and other European courts in the early modern period, vernacular Italian texts and proto-feminist writings of the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the history of gender, travel, letter-writing and friendship. Beyond this I am also able to supervise projects on European letter-writing from the late medieval period and literary production connected to female patronage in early modern France and England.

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Di Crescenzo, "Carissimo zio": The Letters of Bartolomeo Dei to Benedetto Dei (1486 – 1492). (MA 2009)

• Constant Mews
  I have a wide range of research interests and potential areas of supervision: history of ideas (ancient, medieval to early modern); religious thought and practice (medieval Europe in particular, but also of modern world); medieval studies more generally relating to France and England; gender, religion and society.

  Completed Theses
  Catherine Laufer, Descendit Ad Inferna: Western Interpretations of the Credal Affirmation, 'He descended to the dead'. (PhD 2008)
  Kiri Bear, 'Seasonal Celebrations in the Melbourne Bioregion.' (MA 2008)
  John Noyce, 'Visions and Prophecies in the Sapiential Tradition from Proverbs to Modernity.' (MA 2008)
  Lynne Reeder, 'Interdependence in Global Times: Franciscan Re-Imaginings'. (PhD, 2007)

• Carol Williams
  

  Medieval and Renaissance music; medieval popular culture; time and music; word-music relationships; early music theory; Australian music history; women's music.

European History (Renaissance)

• Peter Howard
  I am keen to supervise research in relation to culture and belief in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy. My specific area of interest is the relationship of theology to society, using sermons, art, ritual and related materials as sources. Beyond this I supervise theses on art and material culture in the Renaissance and early modern periods. I also supervise projects related to the history of theology and the history of the church, including the modern period. I have a major in music history and literature in my primary degree, and so I also supervise projects which include musical culture.

  Current postgraduate thesis topics under my supervision include:

  PhD

  • Finding Space in Early Modern Tuscany: Imagining Place and Constructing Identity in Prato and Montepulciano
  • 'John XXIII, Vatican II and the politics of aggiornamento: Angelo Roncalli's analysis of the works of St Charles Borromeo (1538-84) in relation to late 20th century church reform'
  • 'Religious Attitudes to Conscription in Australia for the Vietnam War'

  MA

  • 'Secularisation and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999)'
  • 'Ebionite origins and history'
  • 'The Symbolic Power of Silk in Renaissance Florence'
  • 'Belief and Politics in Contemporary Australia'
  • 'Cognizione del Mondo: containing, enclosing, and preventing an "awareness of the world" within Vincenzo Borghini's L'Ospedale degli Innocenti’

  Completed Theses
  Peter Price, 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'. (PhD 2009, main supervisor)
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervisor)
  Jodi Hodge, ' Slender Bonds and Bitter Seas: Mary Magdalen in Mendicant Literature and Imagery' (MA 2006, sole supervisor)
  Cecilia Hewlett, 'Rural Communities and Renaissance Florence: Autonomy and Interdependence (1480 – 1550) '. (PhD 2004, associate supervisor)
  Garry Deverell, 'The Bonds of Freedom: Vows, Sacraments and the Formation of the Christian Self'. (PhD 2004, joint supervisor)
  Wendy Madden, '"Shining Virtue": Veronica Gambara – The Lady of Correggio' (MA 2003, sole supervisor)
  Justine Heazlewood, '"Letters are the Leaves, Prayers are the Fruit": Florentine Nuns in th City'. (MA 1999, joint supervisor).
  Natalie Tomas, 'The Medici Women: gender and Power in Renaissance Florence'. (PhD 1997, associate supervisor).

• Carolyn James
  I am keen to supervise projects in medieval and renaissance history, especially cultural and social history. My specific interests are Italian and other European courts in the early modern period, vernacular Italian texts and proto-feminist writings of the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the history of gender, travel, letter-writing and friendship. Beyond this I am also able to supervise projects on European letter-writing from the late medieval period and literary production connected to female patronage in early modern France and England.

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Di Crescenzo, "Carissimo zio": The Letters of Bartolomeo Dei to Benedetto Dei (1486 – 1492). (MA 2009)

• Bill Kent
  Italian Renaissance social and cultural history; art history; Florence in the time of Lorenzo de' Medici; Renaissance European history, including the history of letter-writing and friendship.

  Completed Theses
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervision)

• Carol Williams
  

  Medieval and Renaissance music; medieval popular culture; time and music; word-music relationships; early music theory; Australian music history; women's music.

European History (Enlightenment)

• David Garrioch
  

  European social history, 1600 - 1850; European urban history, 1600 - 1900; Eighteenth-century Europe; Enlightenment; French Revolution.

  Completed Theses
  James Cannon, 'Paris-Zone: Cultural representations of the zone non aedificandi, 1840-1945.' (PhD 2009)
  Alexander Otto-Morris, 'The Landvolkbewegung and the Rise of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein'. (PhD, 2007)

European History (Modern)

• Barbara Caine
  Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing.

  My principal teaching interests lie in the areas of Late Modern European cultural and social history, in debates about historiography and historical method, in questions about gender and history, about sexuality and in the broad area of history and biography. I supervise research in these areas, but also in work on women's history and questions of gender in European, Australian and Southern African History.

  Current Supervision
  Bryony Cosgrove, Australian Women’s Letters
  Sally Dammery, 'Menarche in cross-cultural perspective'
  Patricia Armstrong-Grant, 'A Biography of Dame Joan Hammond'
  Carolyn Adams, 'Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Out of the Shadow: Reconstructing Frieda Strehlow as Missionary Wife in Central Australia, 1895-1922.' (PhD 2009)
  Carly Millar, 'Bessie Rischbieth: A Biography.' (PhD 2008)
  Josie Monro, 'Gender and Anxiety in Revolutionary London: Representations of Men and Women in the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.' (PhD 2008)
  Richard Scully, 'Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.' (PhD 2008)
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the Maiden: Representing Women through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' (PhD 2006)
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, Political, Polemical: Contemporary Feminisms and the Problem of Prostitution.' (PhD 2005)
  Angela Argent, 'Exotic Creatures: Feminist intellectuals in Prague in the 1990s' (PhD 2003)

• David Garrioch
  

  European social history, 1600 - 1850; European urban history, 1600 - 1900; Eighteenth-century Europe; Enlightenment; French Revolution.

  Completed Theses
  James Cannon, 'Paris-Zone: Cultural representations of the zone non aedificandi, 1840-1945.' (PhD 2009)
  Alexander Otto-Morris, 'The Landvolkbewegung and the Rise of National Socialism in Schleswig-Holstein'. (PhD, 2007)

• Michael Hau
  European and German history; history of medicine and the life sciences; history of the body; social and cultural history.

Gender Studies

• Barbara Caine
  Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing.

  My principal teaching interests lie in the areas of Late Modern European cultural and social history, in debates about historiography and historical method, in questions about gender and history, about sexuality and in the broad area of history and biography. I supervise research in these areas, but also in work on women's history and questions of gender in European, Australian and Southern African History.

  Current Supervision
  Bryony Cosgrove, Australian Women’s Letters
  Sally Dammery, 'Menarche in cross-cultural perspective'
  Patricia Armstrong-Grant, 'A Biography of Dame Joan Hammond'
  Carolyn Adams, 'Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Out of the Shadow: Reconstructing Frieda Strehlow as Missionary Wife in Central Australia, 1895-1922.' (PhD 2009)
  Carly Millar, 'Bessie Rischbieth: A Biography.' (PhD 2008)
  Josie Monro, 'Gender and Anxiety in Revolutionary London: Representations of Men and Women in the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.' (PhD 2008)
  Richard Scully, 'Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.' (PhD 2008)
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the Maiden: Representing Women through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' (PhD 2006)
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, Political, Polemical: Contemporary Feminisms and the Problem of Prostitution.' (PhD 2005)
  Angela Argent, 'Exotic Creatures: Feminist intellectuals in Prague in the 1990s' (PhD 2003)

• Colin Hope
  

  The archaeology of ancient Egypt with particular reference to the Western Desert, and cultural interaction between ancient Egyptians and their western neighbours; ancient Egyptian and western desert ceramics; Egyptianizing monuments in Australia and collections of Egyptian antiquities in Australia.

  Recent Completions
  Caroline Hubschamm, 'The oases of the Western Desert of Egypt druing the Third Intermediate and Late Periods: the study of a regional identity.' (PhD 2009)
  Amy Pettman, 'Ain el-Gazzareen: New Insight into the Old Kingdom – Egyptian Presence n the Dakhleh Oasis.' (MA 2009)
  Ashten Warfe, 'A Study of the pottery remains from early and mid-Holocene sites in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt.' (PhD 2008)
  Joylene Kremler, 'The Origin and Development of Frog Amulets and Figures in Ancient Eygpt and their relationship to the Goddess Heqet.' (MA 2008)
  Lainie O'Brien, 'Aspects of Kingship in the Reign of Thutmose III'. (MA 2007)
  Richard Long, 'Egypt’s Western Oases during the New Kingdom (c.1550-1069 B.C.E.).' (MA 2007)

• Carolyn James
  I am keen to supervise projects in medieval and renaissance history, especially cultural and social history. My specific interests are Italian and other European courts in the early modern period, vernacular Italian texts and proto-feminist writings of the 15th and 16th centuries as well as the history of gender, travel, letter-writing and friendship. Beyond this I am also able to supervise projects on European letter-writing from the late medieval period and literary production connected to female patronage in early modern France and England.

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Di Crescenzo, "Carissimo zio": The Letters of Bartolomeo Dei to Benedetto Dei (1486 – 1492). (MA 2009)

• Melanie Landau
  

  Jewish Law, Jewish Feminist theory and practice, rabbinic literature.

• Mark Peel
  

  I am particularly keen to supervise projects in Australian history and American history, and comparative and transnational projects. My broad area of interest is social and cultural history, and I have specific interests in the history of poverty, welfare and charity; the history of the making and the experience of class, gender and sexuality, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the history of public policies, especially in the areas of health, education, welfare and social justice; oral history, memory and life stories; dramatisation, fiction and historical writing; on-line histories and new genres of historical writing; urban history, and especially the history of working-class and marginalised places; and the history of movements for civil, social and minority rights, especially in the United States. Beyond this, I also supervise projects across the range of Australian history, as well as the history of the American Civil War, modern American political history, colonial American history and histories of race in America. I received the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2003.

  Current Supervisions (main supervisor)
  Richard Allsop, 'Geoffrey Blainey's History' (PhD)
  John Cantwell, 'George Washington and the Western Lands' (PhD)
  Lorraine Proctor, 'British Post-war Immigration to the Latrobe Valley' (PhD)
  Kathy Shaw, "The Boy Soldiers of the American Civil War: A Social Case Study" (MA)

  Current Supervisions (joint supervisor)
  Ashley Carr, 'Courts and justice in colonial Victoria' (PhD)
  Bridget Harris, 'Community Legal Centres and Youth' (PhD)
  Jo Hook, 'Catholic Religious and Welfare Activism' (PhD)
  Maria John, 'Humanitarianism and the Tasmanian Aboriginals' (MA)
  Ana Kailis, 'Making Non-Citizens: David Hicks and Mahmoud Habib' (PhD)
  Meighen Katz, 'The Depression in the Museum: Exhibiting the 1930s in and the United States' (PhD)
  Rachel Stevens, 'Migration, Settlement and Language Policies in Australia and the United States, 1950-1975' (PhD)
  Mia Treacey, 'History and Film' (PhD)

  Completed Theses
  Megan Blair, 'The American Civil War in Cyberspace' (2008, main supervisor)
  Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervisor)
  Henry Gordon-Clark, 'The Last Gun in Defence of the South: The Story of CSS Shenandoah' (2008, main supervisor)
  Jo Aitken, "Representations of Wife-Beating in Australia, 1880-1914" (2005, main supervisor)
  Bree Carlton, 'Imprisoning Histories: State Power and Prisoner Resistance in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit, 1980-1987' (2005, joint supervisor, winner of the 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Research, thesis published as Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian SuperMax, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007)
  Meighen Katz, "History Under Construction: Curators and the Experience of Creating Accessible Public History" (2005, MA, joint supervisor)
  Bob Mason, 'Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles' (2003, joint supervisor, thesis published as Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles by Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004)
  Jeremy Sammut, 'The Quest for Civic Virtue: Citizenship and Politics in Federal Australia' (2003, main supervisor)
  Paul Sendziuk, 'Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids' (2002, main supervisor, winner of the 2002 Postgraduate Publication Prize and the 2003 Mollie Holman Award, thesis published as Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS by University of New South Wales Press, 2003)
  Tony Duras, '"Parade of the Old New": Trade Unions and New Social Movements in Australia, 1965-1985' (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Sheryl Burgess, 'Imagined Womanhood: The Possibilities and Insecurities of the Heroines of the Interwar Years’ (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Nick Fischer, 'The Savage Within: Anti-Communism, Anti-Democracy and Authoritarianism in the United States and Australia, 1917-1935' (2002, PhD, main supervisor)
  Stephen Powell, 'Mothering, Husbandry and the State: Conservation in the United States and Australia, 1912-1945' (2001, PhD, main supervisor)
  Masha Gold, 'The Crown Heights Riots and their Effect on Jewish-Black Relations in New York City' (2000, PhD, joint supervisor)
  Meredith Fletcher, 'Digging Up People for Coal: A History of Yallourn' (1999, PhD, main supervisor, thesis published as Digging People Up for Coal by Melbourne University Press, 2002)
  

• Marian Quartly
  

  Australian social, political, and religious history; women's history and gender history.

  Completed Theses
  Richard Peterson, 'Jessie Vasey: the making of a conservative feminist.' (PhD 2009) Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)
  Beau Collins, 'Voluntary Associations for Victorian Children 1872-1910.' (PhD 2008)
  Nick Dyrenfurth, 'Heroes and Villains: the Cultural Politics of Australian Labour, 1878-1918.' (PhD 2008)
  Josephine Dunin, 'Canaries in a Mine'. Post Release Support for Young Offenders in Melbourne 1964-1981. (MA 2008)
  Kate Murphy, 'Gender and the Rural-Urban Divide: Fears and Fantasies of the Australian Elite, 1900-1930.' (PhD 2007)
  Brenda Joyce, 'Civil Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Australia: Secular or Sacred?'. (MA 2007)

• Christina Twomey
  

  Gender and welfare, nineteenth-century humanitarianism in relation to indigenous people, Australian women's history, war and commemoration in Australia, histories of captivity

  Completed Theses
  Simon Sleight, 'The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne, c. 1870-1901.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)

• Carol Williams
  

  Medieval and Renaissance music; medieval popular culture; time and music; word-music relationships; early music theory; Australian music history; women's music.

Intellectual History

• Michael Fagenblat
  Jewish philosophy; Midrash and Jewish hermeneutics; comparative theology and exegetical interaction (Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim); Emmanuel Levinas; Moses Maimonides; political theology; secularisation.

  Completed Theses
  Shira Nahari, 'Synagogues in Late Second Temple Period'. (PhD 2007)

• Peter Howard
  I am keen to supervise research in relation to culture and belief in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy. My specific area of interest is the relationship of theology to society, using sermons, art, ritual and related materials as sources. Beyond this I supervise theses on art and material culture in the Renaissance and early modern periods. I also supervise projects related to the history of theology and the history of the church, including the modern period. I have a major in music history and literature in my primary degree, and so I also supervise projects which include musical culture.

  Current postgraduate thesis topics under my supervision include:

  PhD

  • Finding Space in Early Modern Tuscany: Imagining Place and Constructing Identity in Prato and Montepulciano
  • 'John XXIII, Vatican II and the politics of aggiornamento: Angelo Roncalli's analysis of the works of St Charles Borromeo (1538-84) in relation to late 20th century church reform'
  • 'Religious Attitudes to Conscription in Australia for the Vietnam War'

  MA

  • 'Secularisation and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999)'
  • 'Ebionite origins and history'
  • 'The Symbolic Power of Silk in Renaissance Florence'
  • 'Belief and Politics in Contemporary Australia'
  • 'Cognizione del Mondo: containing, enclosing, and preventing an "awareness of the world" within Vincenzo Borghini's L'Ospedale degli Innocenti’

  Completed Theses
  Peter Price, 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'. (PhD 2009, main supervisor)
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervisor)
  Jodi Hodge, ' Slender Bonds and Bitter Seas: Mary Magdalen in Mendicant Literature and Imagery' (MA 2006, sole supervisor)
  Cecilia Hewlett, 'Rural Communities and Renaissance Florence: Autonomy and Interdependence (1480 – 1550) '. (PhD 2004, associate supervisor)
  Garry Deverell, 'The Bonds of Freedom: Vows, Sacraments and the Formation of the Christian Self'. (PhD 2004, joint supervisor)
  Wendy Madden, '"Shining Virtue": Veronica Gambara – The Lady of Correggio' (MA 2003, sole supervisor)
  Justine Heazlewood, '"Letters are the Leaves, Prayers are the Fruit": Florentine Nuns in th City'. (MA 1999, joint supervisor).
  Natalie Tomas, 'The Medici Women: gender and Power in Renaissance Florence'. (PhD 1997, associate supervisor).

• Constant Mews
  I have a wide range of research interests and potential areas of supervision: history of ideas (ancient, medieval to early modern); religious thought and practice (medieval Europe in particular, but also of modern world); medieval studies more generally relating to France and England; gender, religion and society.

  Completed Theses
  Catherine Laufer, Descendit Ad Inferna: Western Interpretations of the Credal Affirmation, 'He descended to the dead'. (PhD 2008)
  Kiri Bear, 'Seasonal Celebrations in the Melbourne Bioregion.' (MA 2008)
  John Noyce, 'Visions and Prophecies in the Sapiential Tradition from Proverbs to Modernity.' (MA 2008)
  Lynne Reeder, 'Interdependence in Global Times: Franciscan Re-Imaginings'. (PhD, 2007)

• Nathan Wolski
  

  Biblical archaeology and history; Jewish mysticism; Jewish existentialist thinkers, including Buber and Levinas; Zohar; Spanish Kabbalah

Indigenous History

• Bain Attwood
  Australian and New Zealand indigenous history; cross-cultural history; public history; history and theory; oral history and history and memory.

  Completed Theses
  Maria John, 'Responsible Witnessing: Narratives of Tragedy and Failure in Van Diemen’s Land.' (MA 2009)

Jewish History

• Michael Fagenblat
  Jewish philosophy; Midrash and Jewish hermeneutics; comparative theology and exegetical interaction (Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim); Emmanuel Levinas; Moses Maimonides; political theology; secularisation.

  Completed Theses
  Shira Nahari, 'Synagogues in Late Second Temple Period'. (PhD 2007)

• Paul Forgasz
  

  Jewish History, including ancient and medieval; Bible; Midrash; Jewish-Christian relations.

• Melanie Landau
  

  Jewish Law, Jewish Feminist theory and practice, rabbinic literature.

• Andrew Markus
  

  Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought - and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.

  Completed Theses
  Jonathan Landes, 'History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives.' (MA 2009)
  Selena Costa-Pinto, 'Narrating Contemporary Migration - Indian women in Melbourne.' (PhD 2008)
  Julie Fenwick, 'Dealing with a Nation': Conceptualizing Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990. (PhD 2007)

• Nathan Wolski
  

  Biblical archaeology and history; Jewish mysticism; Jewish existentialist thinkers, including Buber and Levinas; Zohar; Spanish Kabbalah

Music History

• Carol Williams
  

  Medieval and Renaissance music; medieval popular culture; time and music; word-music relationships; early music theory; Australian music history; women's music.

Oral History and History & Memory

• Bain Attwood
  Australian and New Zealand indigenous history; cross-cultural history; public history; history and theory; oral history and history and memory.

  Completed Theses
  Maria John, 'Responsible Witnessing: Narratives of Tragedy and Failure in Van Diemen’s Land.' (MA 2009)

• Mark Peel
  

  I am particularly keen to supervise projects in Australian history and American history, and comparative and transnational projects. My broad area of interest is social and cultural history, and I have specific interests in the history of poverty, welfare and charity; the history of the making and the experience of class, gender and sexuality, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the history of public policies, especially in the areas of health, education, welfare and social justice; oral history, memory and life stories; dramatisation, fiction and historical writing; on-line histories and new genres of historical writing; urban history, and especially the history of working-class and marginalised places; and the history of movements for civil, social and minority rights, especially in the United States. Beyond this, I also supervise projects across the range of Australian history, as well as the history of the American Civil War, modern American political history, colonial American history and histories of race in America. I received the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2003.

  Current Supervisions (main supervisor)
  Richard Allsop, 'Geoffrey Blainey's History' (PhD)
  John Cantwell, 'George Washington and the Western Lands' (PhD)
  Lorraine Proctor, 'British Post-war Immigration to the Latrobe Valley' (PhD)
  Kathy Shaw, "The Boy Soldiers of the American Civil War: A Social Case Study" (MA)

  Current Supervisions (joint supervisor)
  Ashley Carr, 'Courts and justice in colonial Victoria' (PhD)
  Bridget Harris, 'Community Legal Centres and Youth' (PhD)
  Jo Hook, 'Catholic Religious and Welfare Activism' (PhD)
  Maria John, 'Humanitarianism and the Tasmanian Aboriginals' (MA)
  Ana Kailis, 'Making Non-Citizens: David Hicks and Mahmoud Habib' (PhD)
  Meighen Katz, 'The Depression in the Museum: Exhibiting the 1930s in and the United States' (PhD)
  Rachel Stevens, 'Migration, Settlement and Language Policies in Australia and the United States, 1950-1975' (PhD)
  Mia Treacey, 'History and Film' (PhD)

  Completed Theses
  Megan Blair, 'The American Civil War in Cyberspace' (2008, main supervisor)
  Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervisor)
  Henry Gordon-Clark, 'The Last Gun in Defence of the South: The Story of CSS Shenandoah' (2008, main supervisor)
  Jo Aitken, "Representations of Wife-Beating in Australia, 1880-1914" (2005, main supervisor)
  Bree Carlton, 'Imprisoning Histories: State Power and Prisoner Resistance in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit, 1980-1987' (2005, joint supervisor, winner of the 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Research, thesis published as Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian SuperMax, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007)
  Meighen Katz, "History Under Construction: Curators and the Experience of Creating Accessible Public History" (2005, MA, joint supervisor)
  Bob Mason, 'Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles' (2003, joint supervisor, thesis published as Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles by Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004)
  Jeremy Sammut, 'The Quest for Civic Virtue: Citizenship and Politics in Federal Australia' (2003, main supervisor)
  Paul Sendziuk, 'Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids' (2002, main supervisor, winner of the 2002 Postgraduate Publication Prize and the 2003 Mollie Holman Award, thesis published as Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS by University of New South Wales Press, 2003)
  Tony Duras, '"Parade of the Old New": Trade Unions and New Social Movements in Australia, 1965-1985' (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Sheryl Burgess, 'Imagined Womanhood: The Possibilities and Insecurities of the Heroines of the Interwar Years’ (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Nick Fischer, 'The Savage Within: Anti-Communism, Anti-Democracy and Authoritarianism in the United States and Australia, 1917-1935' (2002, PhD, main supervisor)
  Stephen Powell, 'Mothering, Husbandry and the State: Conservation in the United States and Australia, 1912-1945' (2001, PhD, main supervisor)
  Masha Gold, 'The Crown Heights Riots and their Effect on Jewish-Black Relations in New York City' (2000, PhD, joint supervisor)
  Meredith Fletcher, 'Digging Up People for Coal: A History of Yallourn' (1999, PhD, main supervisor, thesis published as Digging People Up for Coal by Melbourne University Press, 2002)
  

Public History

• Bain Attwood
  Australian and New Zealand indigenous history; cross-cultural history; public history; history and theory; oral history and history and memory.

  Completed Theses
  Maria John, 'Responsible Witnessing: Narratives of Tragedy and Failure in Van Diemen’s Land.' (MA 2009)

• Susan Aykut
  

  Ottoman history; oriental art; public history.

• Seamus O'Hanlon
  

  Nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian and British urban, social and cultural history; youth cultures; immigration history; history of technology; heritage, museums and public history; histories of housing.

Religion & Theology

• Michael Fagenblat
  Jewish philosophy; Midrash and Jewish hermeneutics; comparative theology and exegetical interaction (Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim); Emmanuel Levinas; Moses Maimonides; political theology; secularisation.

  Completed Theses
  Shira Nahari, 'Synagogues in Late Second Temple Period'. (PhD 2007)

• Paul Forgasz
  

  Jewish History, including ancient and medieval; Bible; Midrash; Jewish-Christian relations.

• Peter Howard
  I am keen to supervise research in relation to culture and belief in Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, with a particular focus on Italy. My specific area of interest is the relationship of theology to society, using sermons, art, ritual and related materials as sources. Beyond this I supervise theses on art and material culture in the Renaissance and early modern periods. I also supervise projects related to the history of theology and the history of the church, including the modern period. I have a major in music history and literature in my primary degree, and so I also supervise projects which include musical culture.

  Current postgraduate thesis topics under my supervision include:

  PhD

  • Finding Space in Early Modern Tuscany: Imagining Place and Constructing Identity in Prato and Montepulciano
  • 'John XXIII, Vatican II and the politics of aggiornamento: Angelo Roncalli's analysis of the works of St Charles Borromeo (1538-84) in relation to late 20th century church reform'
  • 'Religious Attitudes to Conscription in Australia for the Vietnam War'

  MA

  • 'Secularisation and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (1999)'
  • 'Ebionite origins and history'
  • 'The Symbolic Power of Silk in Renaissance Florence'
  • 'Belief and Politics in Contemporary Australia'
  • 'Cognizione del Mondo: containing, enclosing, and preventing an "awareness of the world" within Vincenzo Borghini's L'Ospedale degli Innocenti’

  Completed Theses
  Peter Price, 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'. (PhD 2009, main supervisor)
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervisor)
  Jodi Hodge, ' Slender Bonds and Bitter Seas: Mary Magdalen in Mendicant Literature and Imagery' (MA 2006, sole supervisor)
  Cecilia Hewlett, 'Rural Communities and Renaissance Florence: Autonomy and Interdependence (1480 – 1550) '. (PhD 2004, associate supervisor)
  Garry Deverell, 'The Bonds of Freedom: Vows, Sacraments and the Formation of the Christian Self'. (PhD 2004, joint supervisor)
  Wendy Madden, '"Shining Virtue": Veronica Gambara – The Lady of Correggio' (MA 2003, sole supervisor)
  Justine Heazlewood, '"Letters are the Leaves, Prayers are the Fruit": Florentine Nuns in th City'. (MA 1999, joint supervisor).
  Natalie Tomas, 'The Medici Women: gender and Power in Renaissance Florence'. (PhD 1997, associate supervisor).

• Constant Mews
  I have a wide range of research interests and potential areas of supervision: history of ideas (ancient, medieval to early modern); religious thought and practice (medieval Europe in particular, but also of modern world); medieval studies more generally relating to France and England; gender, religion and society.

  Completed Theses
  Catherine Laufer, Descendit Ad Inferna: Western Interpretations of the Credal Affirmation, 'He descended to the dead'. (PhD 2008)
  Kiri Bear, 'Seasonal Celebrations in the Melbourne Bioregion.' (MA 2008)
  John Noyce, 'Visions and Prophecies in the Sapiential Tradition from Proverbs to Modernity.' (MA 2008)
  Lynne Reeder, 'Interdependence in Global Times: Franciscan Re-Imaginings'. (PhD, 2007)

• Marian Quartly
  

  Australian social, political, and religious history; women's history and gender history.

  Completed Theses
  Richard Peterson, 'Jessie Vasey: the making of a conservative feminist.' (PhD 2009) Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)
  Beau Collins, 'Voluntary Associations for Victorian Children 1872-1910.' (PhD 2008)
  Nick Dyrenfurth, 'Heroes and Villains: the Cultural Politics of Australian Labour, 1878-1918.' (PhD 2008)
  Josephine Dunin, 'Canaries in a Mine'. Post Release Support for Young Offenders in Melbourne 1964-1981. (MA 2008)
  Kate Murphy, 'Gender and the Rural-Urban Divide: Fears and Fantasies of the Australian Elite, 1900-1930.' (PhD 2007)
  Brenda Joyce, 'Civil Wedding Ceremonies in Contemporary Australia: Secular or Sacred?'. (MA 2007)

Social History

• Marc Brodie
  British nineteenth century urban and working-class history; Australian regional political history; popular conservatism.
• Barbara Caine
  Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history; biography and history; life-story writing.

  My principal teaching interests lie in the areas of Late Modern European cultural and social history, in debates about historiography and historical method, in questions about gender and history, about sexuality and in the broad area of history and biography. I supervise research in these areas, but also in work on women's history and questions of gender in European, Australian and Southern African History.

  Current Supervision
  Bryony Cosgrove, Australian Women’s Letters
  Sally Dammery, 'Menarche in cross-cultural perspective'
  Patricia Armstrong-Grant, 'A Biography of Dame Joan Hammond'
  Carolyn Adams, 'Australian nurses in the Anglo-Boer War'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Completed Theses
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'Out of the Shadow: Reconstructing Frieda Strehlow as Missionary Wife in Central Australia, 1895-1922.' (PhD 2009)
  Carly Millar, 'Bessie Rischbieth: A Biography.' (PhD 2008)
  Josie Monro, 'Gender and Anxiety in Revolutionary London: Representations of Men and Women in the Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661.' (PhD 2008)
  Richard Scully, 'Admiration, Antagonism, Ambivalence: British Images of Germany, 1860-1914.' (PhD 2008)
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the Maiden: Representing Women through South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.' (PhD 2006)
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Personal, Political, Polemical: Contemporary Feminisms and the Problem of Prostitution.' (PhD 2005)
  Angela Argent, 'Exotic Creatures: Feminist intellectuals in Prague in the 1990s' (PhD 2003)

• Michael Hau
  European and German history; history of medicine and the life sciences; history of the body; social and cultural history.
• Bill Kent
  Italian Renaissance social and cultural history; art history; Florence in the time of Lorenzo de' Medici; Renaissance European history, including the history of letter-writing and friendship.

  Completed Theses
  Frankie Nowicki, 'Ritual, Music, and the Council of Florence: A Cultural Encounter between East and West.' (PhD 2009, joint supervision)

• Andrew Markus
  

  Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought - and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.

  Completed Theses
  Jonathan Landes, 'History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives.' (MA 2009)
  Selena Costa-Pinto, 'Narrating Contemporary Migration - Indian women in Melbourne.' (PhD 2008)
  Julie Fenwick, 'Dealing with a Nation': Conceptualizing Aboriginal Sovereignty, 1950-1990. (PhD 2007)

• Constant Mews
  I have a wide range of research interests and potential areas of supervision: history of ideas (ancient, medieval to early modern); religious thought and practice (medieval Europe in particular, but also of modern world); medieval studies more generally relating to France and England; gender, religion and society.

  Completed Theses
  Catherine Laufer, Descendit Ad Inferna: Western Interpretations of the Credal Affirmation, 'He descended to the dead'. (PhD 2008)
  Kiri Bear, 'Seasonal Celebrations in the Melbourne Bioregion.' (MA 2008)
  John Noyce, 'Visions and Prophecies in the Sapiential Tradition from Proverbs to Modernity.' (MA 2008)
  Lynne Reeder, 'Interdependence in Global Times: Franciscan Re-Imaginings'. (PhD, 2007)

• Seamus O'Hanlon
  

  Nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian and British urban, social and cultural history; youth cultures; immigration history; history of technology; heritage, museums and public history; histories of housing.

• Mark Peel
  

  I am particularly keen to supervise projects in Australian history and American history, and comparative and transnational projects. My broad area of interest is social and cultural history, and I have specific interests in the history of poverty, welfare and charity; the history of the making and the experience of class, gender and sexuality, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the history of public policies, especially in the areas of health, education, welfare and social justice; oral history, memory and life stories; dramatisation, fiction and historical writing; on-line histories and new genres of historical writing; urban history, and especially the history of working-class and marginalised places; and the history of movements for civil, social and minority rights, especially in the United States. Beyond this, I also supervise projects across the range of Australian history, as well as the history of the American Civil War, modern American political history, colonial American history and histories of race in America. I received the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2003.

  Current Supervisions (main supervisor)
  Richard Allsop, 'Geoffrey Blainey's History' (PhD)
  John Cantwell, 'George Washington and the Western Lands' (PhD)
  Lorraine Proctor, 'British Post-war Immigration to the Latrobe Valley' (PhD)
  Kathy Shaw, "The Boy Soldiers of the American Civil War: A Social Case Study" (MA)

  Current Supervisions (joint supervisor)
  Ashley Carr, 'Courts and justice in colonial Victoria' (PhD)
  Bridget Harris, 'Community Legal Centres and Youth' (PhD)
  Jo Hook, 'Catholic Religious and Welfare Activism' (PhD)
  Maria John, 'Humanitarianism and the Tasmanian Aboriginals' (MA)
  Ana Kailis, 'Making Non-Citizens: David Hicks and Mahmoud Habib' (PhD)
  Meighen Katz, 'The Depression in the Museum: Exhibiting the 1930s in and the United States' (PhD)
  Rachel Stevens, 'Migration, Settlement and Language Policies in Australia and the United States, 1950-1975' (PhD)
  Mia Treacey, 'History and Film' (PhD)

  Completed Theses
  Megan Blair, 'The American Civil War in Cyberspace' (2008, main supervisor)
  Lynda Carroll, 'For The Red and The Blue: A Social History of the Melbourne Football Club.' (PhD 2008, joint supervisor)
  Henry Gordon-Clark, 'The Last Gun in Defence of the South: The Story of CSS Shenandoah' (2008, main supervisor)
  Jo Aitken, "Representations of Wife-Beating in Australia, 1880-1914" (2005, main supervisor)
  Bree Carlton, 'Imprisoning Histories: State Power and Prisoner Resistance in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit, 1980-1987' (2005, joint supervisor, winner of the 2006 Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Postgraduate Research, thesis published as Imprisoning Resistance: Life and Death in an Australian SuperMax, Federation Press, Sydney, 2007)
  Meighen Katz, "History Under Construction: Curators and the Experience of Creating Accessible Public History" (2005, MA, joint supervisor)
  Bob Mason, 'Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles' (2003, joint supervisor, thesis published as Magic Circles: Another Side of the Beatles by Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004)
  Jeremy Sammut, 'The Quest for Civic Virtue: Citizenship and Politics in Federal Australia' (2003, main supervisor)
  Paul Sendziuk, 'Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to Aids' (2002, main supervisor, winner of the 2002 Postgraduate Publication Prize and the 2003 Mollie Holman Award, thesis published as Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS by University of New South Wales Press, 2003)
  Tony Duras, '"Parade of the Old New": Trade Unions and New Social Movements in Australia, 1965-1985' (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Sheryl Burgess, 'Imagined Womanhood: The Possibilities and Insecurities of the Heroines of the Interwar Years’ (2002, MA, main supervisor)
  Nick Fischer, 'The Savage Within: Anti-Communism, Anti-Democracy and Authoritarianism in the United States and Australia, 1917-1935' (2002, PhD, main supervisor)
  Stephen Powell, 'Mothering, Husbandry and the State: Conservation in the United States and Australia, 1912-1945' (2001, PhD, main supervisor)
  Masha Gold, 'The Crown Heights Riots and their Effect on Jewish-Black Relations in New York City' (2000, PhD, joint supervisor)
  Meredith Fletcher, 'Digging Up People for Coal: A History of Yallourn' (1999, PhD, main supervisor, thesis published as Digging People Up for Coal by Melbourne University Press, 2002)
  

• Christina Twomey
  

  Gender and welfare, nineteenth-century humanitarianism in relation to indigenous people, Australian women's history, war and commemoration in Australia, histories of captivity

  Completed Theses
  Simon Sleight, 'The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne, c. 1870-1901.' (PhD 2008, joint supervision)

US History