Seamus O'Hanlon - History Department Staff
Position
Senior Lecturer
Phone
61-3-9905 2169
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Building 11
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
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 research mainly revolves around the impact of economic, social and cultural change on cities in Australia and elsewhere in the twentieth century. My current project is a commissioned history of Melbourne’s Federation Square (MonUP 2012) as it approaches its tenth anniversary later this year and like my most recent book, Melbourne Remade: the inner city since the Seventies (Arcade 2010) uses Melbourne as a case study to investigate the emergence of post-industrial urban spaces in inner cities across the globe in recent decades. These projects derive from an ARC-funded project on the deindustrialisation and reinvention of inner cities undertaken with Tony Dingle and a number of other colleagues from Monash and elsewhere since 2006. As part of this project 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 in 2007. A selection of papers from this symposium, co-edited with Professor Chris Hamnett of Kings, was published as a special edition of Urban Policy and Research in September 2009.
Other recent research projects include: co-editing (with Lionel Frost of Monash) a special edition of the Australian Economic History Review (March 2009) 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 in collaboration with a number of colleagues at Monash and La Trobe universities, ABC Radio National and the National Library of Australia, a large ARC Linkage-funded oral history project, Australian Generations that investigates and historicises generational experience across the twentieth century. I am a chief investigator on the CRC-funded Water Sensitive Cities project funded in the 2011 round, while also being 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, Melbourne’s Federation Square: the first ten years, Monash University Publishing, Melbourne 2012 (forthcoming)
S. O’Hanlon (with T. Dingle), Melbourne Remade: the inner city since the Seventies, Arcade, Melbourne, 2010
S. O'Hanlon, Together Apart: boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 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, ‘The reign of the six pack: flats and flat-life in Australia in the 1960s’, in S. Robinson and J. Ustinoff (eds), The 1960s in Australia: people, power and politics, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle, 2012
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
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
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
S. O'Hanlon, 'Cities, suburbs and communities', in M. Lyons and P. Russell (eds), Australia's history: themes and debates, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005
S. O'Hanlon, 'Tenants', in P. Yule (ed), Carlton: A History, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004
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 S. O’Hanlon, ‘Hearth and Home’, in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1995
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Home ownership and home improvement’, in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 1995
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
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
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/Printemps, 2009)
L. Frost and S. O'Hanlon, ‘Urban history and the future of Australian cities’, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009
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
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
S. O'Hanlon, 'Full board and lodging: hostels for migrant workers in early postwar Melbourne', History Australia, Vol 2, No. 5, December 2005
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
S. O'Hanlon, ''All found', they used to call it: Genteel Boarding Houses in Early Twentieth Century Melbourne', Urban History, 29, 2 September 2002
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)
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Modernism and Prefabrication in Postwar Melbourne’, Journal of Australian Studies, No. 57, 1998
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
Refereed Conference Papers
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Six-packs and villa units: Melbourne’s 1960s flat boom’, in D. Nichols, A. Hurlimann, C. Mouat and S. Pascoe (eds), Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: Proceedings of the 10th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference, Melbourne, 2010 (CD-ROM)
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 (CD-ROM)
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
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)
Other
S. O’Hanlon, 'Hotels' in P. Goad and J. Willis (eds) The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2011
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Housing: Australia’, The Encyclopedia of the World and Its Peoples: Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, Volume 10, Australia and Antarctica, Marshall Cavendish Corporation: Tarrytown, New York, 2010
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Boarding houses in Melbourne: a twentieth century history’, Parity, Vol. 22, Issue 5, June 2009
S. O’Hanlon, A standard company design, Para Hills’, in S. Marsden (ed), Our House, Australian Heritage Commission e-book, Canberra, 2001 (www.heritage.gov.au/ourhouse)
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
ATS1326 - Contemporary Worlds 2
ATS2633/ATS3633 - Global cities
ATS2590/ATS3590 - Twentieth-century Britain: rule Britannia to cool Britannia *
APG4299 - History and Heritage *
APG4295 - History and the Museum *
APG4309 - Family History and Genealogy *
APG5787 - Public history research Project
APG5788 - Public history research project Part 1 (12 points)
APG5789 - Public History research project Part 2 (12 points)
APG5797 - Public history placement and APG5795 Public history dissertation