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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'German missionary women in 19th and early 20th century'
  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'
  Chris Child, 'Married women and economic independence in 19th century Victoria'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Recent Completions
  Carly Millar, 'A biography of Bessie Rischbieth'
  Richard Scully, 'British ideas and representations of Germany, c1870-1914'
  Josie Monro, 'Gender in popular culture in early modern England'
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the maiden: Searching for women's voices in the History of South Africa'
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Prostitution and Feminist Theory' (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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.
• 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
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'German missionary women in 19th and early 20th century'
  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'
  Chris Child, 'Married women and economic independence in 19th century Victoria'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Recent Completions
  Carly Millar, 'A biography of Bessie Rischbieth'
  Richard Scully, 'British ideas and representations of Germany, c1870-1914'
  Josie Monro, 'Gender in popular culture in early modern England'
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the maiden: Searching for women's voices in the History of South Africa'
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Prostitution and Feminist Theory' (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.

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

  • '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'
  • 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'
  • '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’

• 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.
• 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.
• 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

  • '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'
  • 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'
  • '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’

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'German missionary women in 19th and early 20th century'
  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'
  Chris Child, 'Married women and economic independence in 19th century Victoria'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Recent Completions
  Carly Millar, 'A biography of Bessie Rischbieth'
  Richard Scully, 'British ideas and representations of Germany, c1870-1914'
  Josie Monro, 'Gender in popular culture in early modern England'
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the maiden: Searching for women's voices in the History of South Africa'
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Prostitution and Feminist Theory' (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.

• 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
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'German missionary women in 19th and early 20th century'
  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'
  Chris Child, 'Married women and economic independence in 19th century Victoria'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Recent Completions
  Carly Millar, 'A biography of Bessie Rischbieth'
  Richard Scully, 'British ideas and representations of Germany, c1870-1914'
  Josie Monro, 'Gender in popular culture in early modern England'
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the maiden: Searching for women's voices in the History of South Africa'
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Prostitution and Feminist Theory' (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.

• 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.
• 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)
  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.

• 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

• 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.
• 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

  • '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'
  • 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'
  • '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’

• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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)
  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.
• 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.
• 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

  • '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'
  • 'Intellectual Orthodoxy and Political Stability: English Liberal Catholicism and the Politics of Papal Infallibility, 1848-1878'
  • '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’

• 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.
• Marian Quartly
  

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

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
  Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt, 'German missionary women in 19th and early 20th century'
  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'
  Chris Child, 'Married women and economic independence in 19th century Victoria'
  Margaret Taft, 'The concept of witnessing in the Holocaust'

  Recent Completions
  Carly Millar, 'A biography of Bessie Rischbieth'
  Richard Scully, 'British ideas and representations of Germany, c1870-1914'
  Josie Monro, 'Gender in popular culture in early modern England'
  Barbara Russell, 'History and the maiden: Searching for women's voices in the History of South Africa'
  Jessica Lee-Ack, 'Prostitution and Feminist Theory' (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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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)
  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

US History