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Personal History

I have degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University. I completed my PhD in the School of Historical Studies here at Monash under the supervision of Professor Graeme Davison in 1999 and have been a member of the teaching staff of the School since then.

My first major sole-authored book, Together Apart; boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne, based on my PhD thesis, was short-listed in the Local and Community history category of the NSW Premier's History Awards in 2003. More recently I published Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties , co-edited with Tanja Luckins of the University of Melbourne, which was commended in the Collaborative/Community category of the Victorian Community History Awards in 2007.

Current Research

My current research mainly revolves around the impact of economic, social and cultural change on the inner city in Australia and elsewhere in the contemporary period. With Professor Tony Dingle of Buseco, I was awarded funding in the 2006 ARC Discovery round to undertake a large three-year project around the topic of 'Deindustrialisation and re-inventing the inner city: a tale of two cities, inner Melbourne and Geelong c1970-2000' (DP0663310) Arising from this research, in September 2007 I hosted a Monash University/Kings College-funded symposium entitled 'Globalisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city' at Monash's Prato Centre. A selection of papers from this symposium, co-edited with Professor Chris Hamnett of Kings, will be published in a special edition of Urban Policy and Research in September 2009.

Other current research projects include: co-editing (with Lionel Frost of Buseco) a special edition of the Australian Economic History Review that profiles practise and practitioners in the discipline of urban history in Australia in the period since the 1970s; a study of the emergence of flat and apartment living in cities in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century, including the role of immigrants in changing attitudes to house, home and urban culture in those cities; and a larger collaborative project that investigates the impact of Jewish people on the built form and culture of cities in the former British Empire in the period 1850 to the present. I am also involved in a number of studies that investigate histories of everyday life and domestic culture in Australia in the twentieth century.

Major Publications

Books
S. O'Hanlon, Together Apart: boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne, ASP, Melbourne, 2002

Edited Collections
S. O'Hanlon and C. Hamnett (Guest editors), 'Deindustrialisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city: London and Melbourne, c1960-2008', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009
L. Frost and S. O'Hanlon (Guest editors), The Australian City: new essays in urban history. Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009
S. O'Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005
G. Davison, T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon (eds) The Cream Brick Frontier; Histories of Australian Suburbia, Monash Publications in History, No 19, Melbourne, 1995

Book Chapters
S. O'Hanlon, 'From warehouse to your house: production, consumption and the reinvention of inner Melbourne 1906-2000', in R. Crawford, K. Humphery and J. Smart (eds), Consumer Australia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2010 (In press)
S. O'Hanlon and T. Luckins, 'Setting the scene: the idea of the Sixties', in S. O'Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005, pp. vii-xxii
S. O'Hanlon, 'Where all the action is man: Youth cultures in 1960s Melbourne', in S. O'Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 45-57
S. O'Hanlon, 'Cities, suburbs and communities', in M. Lyons and P. Russell (eds), Australia's history: themes and debates, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 172-189
S. O'Hanlon, 'Tenants', in P.Yule (ed), Carlton: A History, MUP, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 111-121
T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon, 'Ten per cent modern? Reshaping Melbourne's suburban homes, 1945-1960', T. Griffiths (ed), People and Place: Australian Heritage Perspectives, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 1996, pp. 25-52
S. O'Hanlon, 'Hearth and Home', in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melboune, ASP, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 360-362
S. O'Hanlon, 'Home ownership and home improvement', in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melboune, ASP, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 418-421

Refereed Journal Articles
S. O'Hanlon and C. Hamnett, 'Introduction: Deindustrialisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city: London and Melbourne, c1960-2008', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009, pp. 211-216
S. O'Hanlon and S. Sharpe, 'Becoming post-industrial: Victoria Street, Fitzroy, c1970 to now', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009, pp. 289-300
S. O'Hanlon, 'The Events City: sport, culture and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006', Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, Vol XXXVII, No 2 (Spring 2009 printemps), pp. 30-39
L. Frost and S. O'Hanlon, Urban history and the future of Australian cities, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009, pp. 1-39
T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon, 'From manufacturing zone to lifestyle precinct: economic restructuring and social change in inner Melbourne, 1971–2001', Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009, pp. 51-68
'Dwelling together, apart: the Jewish presence in Melbourne's first apartment boom', Australian Jewish Historical Society, 2008.
S. O'Hanlon, 'Dwelling together, apart: the Jewish presence in Melbourne’s first apartment boom', Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol XIX. No 2, November 2008, pp. 237-247
S. O'Hanlon, 'Full board and lodging: hostels for migrant workers in early postwar Melbourne', History Australia, Vol 2, No. 5, December 2005, pp. 88.1-88.15
S. O'Hanlon, 'Sound of the brogue soon on city trams: Irish immigrants in post-war Melbourne', Australian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol 5, 2005, pp. 36-50
S. O'Hanlon, ''All found', they used to call it: Genteel Boarding Houses in Early Twentieth Century Melbourne', Urban History, 29, 2 September 2002, pp. 239-253
S. O’Hanlon, 'For the Upholding of Womanhood: Melbourne’s Interwar Hostels for "Business Girls"', Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2000 (November 1999), pp. 116-127
S. O'Hanlon, 'Modernism and Prefabrication in Postwar Melbourne', Journal of Australian Studies, No. 57, 1998, pp. 108-118
T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon, 'Modernism versus Domesticity: the contest to shape Melbourne’s homes, 1945-1960', in J. Murphy and J. Smart (eds), The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Culture and Society in the 1950s, MUP, Melbourne, 1997 (Special edition of Australian Historical Studies, No. 109. October 1997, pp. 33-48

Refereed Conference Papers
S.O'Hanlon and Simone Sharpe, 'Selling lifestyle: marketing Melbourne's inner city apartments c1990-2005', in C.McConville (ed), Seachange: new and renewed urban landscapes, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, 2008
T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon, 'Space for your imagination: de-industrialising and re-imagining inner Melbourne c1970-2000', in C. Miller and M. Roche (eds),Past Matters: Heritage, History and the Environment, Proceedings from the 8th Australasian Urban History/ Planning History Conference, Wellington, NZ, 2006, pp. 401-412
T. Dingle and S. O'Hanlon, 'The inner city transformed: industrial and post-industrial Melbourne in pictures c1970-2005', in B. Gleeson (ed), State of Australian Cities 05: Conference proceedings, Griffith University, Brisbane, 2005 (CD-ROM) S. O'Hanlon, A standard company design, Para Hills', in S. Marsden (ed), Our House, Australian Heritage Commission e-book, Canberra, 2001 www.environment.gov.au/heritage/index.html

Areas of Research & Supervision

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.

Teaching

INT1020 - Contemporary Worlds 2
INT2/3130 - Global cities
HSY2/3335 - Twentieth-century Britain: rule Britannia to cool Britannia
HYM4095 - History and Heritage
HSY4210 - History and Memory
HYM4510 - History and the Museum
HYM4560 - The Past Around Us
HYM4620 - Family History and Genealogy
HYM5005 - Public history research project
HYM5005A - Public history research project part 1
HYM5005B - Public history research project part 2
HYM5170 - Public history placement