Prof Erik Eklund
Professor of History and Head of School
Professor Erik Eklund joined HUMCASS in 2008. He came to Monash from the University of Newcastle but he also has had visiting appointments at Georgetown University in Washington in 2001, and at the ANU as a research fellow in 2005.
Research Interests
Erik is researching culture and identity in Australian mining and industrial towns with funding from an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. He has published in the fields of labour history, heritage and public history. He also has expertise in human research ethics, and qualititative research methods especially oral history interviews. He is also interested in the intersection between academic knowledge and the public sphere through the media, teaching, and community-university interaction.
Publications
Monographs
The Living History of Fort Scratchley (with Julie McIntyre), Newcastle City Council, Newcastle, (2008) (forthcoming)
The Making of a Nation: selected readings in colonial Australia. (2003) Co-edited with Dr Martin Crotty, Tertiary Press, Melbourne.pp.1-640, PB, ISBN 0 86458 349 4 (reprinted with corrections in 2004)
Steel Town: The making and breaking of Port Kembla (2002) Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp.1-248 HB, 21 b&w illustrations, 3 maps, 7 tables ISBN 0-522-85026-X
Copper Community: a history of ER&S/Southern Copper Ltd, Port Kembla (2000) University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong. pp.1-113, 95 b&w illustrations, 21 colour photos, PB, ISBN 0 86418 678 9 (with Maree Murray)
Book Chapters
The 'Anxious class'?: Storekeepers and the working class in Australia, 1880-1940 in Ray Markey & Rob Hood (eds), Labour and Community, University of Wollongong Press, Wollongong, 2001
'From Patriotic Interest to Class Interest: Employers and Federation, 1890-1911' in Greg Patmore & Mark Hearn (eds) Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001, pp.116-135
Introduction to 'Federation and Community' in Greg Patmore & Mark Hearn (eds) Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation, Pluto Press, Sydney, 2001, pp.161-164.
Swedish Seafarers in South Australia: the relationship between maritime and land-based labour markets in South Australian ports, 1890-1930 in Charles Westin & Olavi Koivukangas (eds), Scandinavian and European Migration to Australia and New Zealand, Turku (Finland): Institute for Migration, 1999, pp.169-184
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Official and Vernacular Public History: historical anniversaries and commemorations in Newcastle, NSW, Public History Review, 2007.
Retail Co-operatives as a Transnational Phenomenon: exploring the composition of Australian society and culture, Journal of Colonial Australian History (9), 2007: 67-99.
History as Service Teaching - Possibilities and Pitfalls, History Australia (3), 2006: 47.1-47.10 (with Martin Crotty).
The 'place' of politics: Class and localist politics at Port Kembla, 1900-1930 (2000), Labour History, 78, May: 94-115.
'Intelligently Directed Welfare Work'?: Labour Management Strategies in Local Context: Port Pirie, 1915-29 (1999), Labour History, 76, May: 125-148.
Managers, workers and industrial welfarism: Management strategies at ER&S, Port Kembla and the Sulphide Corporation, Cockle Creek, 1895-1929 (1997), Australian Economic History Review 37, (2), July: 137-157.
'We are of Age': Class, Locality and Region at Port Kembla, 1900 to 1940 (1994), Labour History, 66, May: 72-85.
Other Recent Contributions
Time has come for city's heritage park, Newcastle Herald, 13th July 2007 (with Antoinette Eklund).
The Phones Might Work But Nobody is at Home, Canberra Times, 21 September, 2005.
There's Life in the Union Movement Yet, Canberra Times, 22 August, 2005.
Uncovering Australia's first coal mine has been an interesting journey, International Longwall News, 24 June 2005.
Nobbys Leaves An Indelible Mark', Newcastle Herald, 24 March, 2004 (with Antoinette Eklund).
Being Australian teaching Australian, Crossings (International Australian Studies Association: Online), vol.7, no.2, 2002</A>. (with Antoinette Eklund)
A Healthy Dose Of Historical Thinking, Newcastle Herald, 12 March 2002.
The Exotic and Banal: the practice and politics of teaching Australian and New Zealand subjects in the USA', Australian Historical Association Bulletin, No.93, Dec 2001, pp.35-39 (with Antoinette Eklund).
Recent Conference Papers
Visions of Newcastle: 1804 and 2004, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Newcastle, July 2004.
Building the 'Kingdom of Freedom': Co-operatives and the Co-operative movement in Australia, United Kingdom/Australian Comparative Labour History Conference, Manchester, 16-19th July, 2003.
A Spatial History of Port Kembla, 1900 to 1966, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Brisbane, 3-7 July 2002.
From Patriotic Interest to Class Interests: Employers and Federation, 1890-1914, Australian Studies Association of North America Biennial Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 24 February 2001.
Contact Details
Phone:
+ 61 3 990 26575 or + 61 3 512 26575
Fax:
+61 3 990 26359
Office:
Building 1E Room 219
Email:
Erik.Eklund@arts.monash.edu.au
Address:
School of Humanities, Communications & Social Sciences
Monash University, Gippsland Campus
Northways Road, Churchill, Victoria 3842