Honorary Professorial Fellow and Research Associates
- Professor John Rickard
- Dr Anne Blair
- Dr Diane Brown
- Dr Peter Chen
- Dr Mimi Colligan
- Dr Robert Crawford
- Dr John Lack
- Dr Kathleen McLean
- Dr Elizabeth Morrison
- Mr Paul Ormonde
- Dr Morna Sturrock
Honorary Professorial Fellow
Professor John Rickard
John Rickard is the author of Class and Politics (1976), H.B. Higgins: the Rebel as Judge (1984), Australia, A Cultural History (1996). John has special interests in Australian nationalism and national identity, Australian Rules Football culture, Australian literature and popular culture, Australian biography, theatre, drama and theatre history. He has been Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Harvard University and has accepted the Monash Visiting Fellowship in Australian Studies at Copenhagen University for 2007. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
Research Associates
Dr Anne Blair
Anne Blair's first book, Lodge in Vietnam: A Patriot Abroad, was published by Yale University in 1995. Her research on the Vietnam War resulted in There to the Bitter End: Ted Serong in Vietnam, Allen & Unwin, 2001. Her study, Ruxton: A Biography, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2004. At present, she is working on a study of the Australian Army in the period between the two World Wars. Anne recently received an Army History Research Grant for this project.
Dr Diane Brown
Diane Brown has recently had her scholarly work published in Craig Munro and Robyn Sheahan-Bright (eds), Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005, UQP, 2006. Her research interests are in Publishing Studies, and in particular, Australian book editors. She is an applicant for a national linkage project with a focus on Australian editors in the knowledge economy. Diane is convenor of the Occasional Series on Australian Editors oral, print, pictorial and digital research project.
Dr Peter Chen
Peter's research focuses on the regulation and role of new media technology in the public sector. He has taught politics and public policy, public sector management, media regulation, and media theory. Peter has professional experience in the executive and legislative branches of government. He has worked in the private sector as an IT consultant working on electronic and online service delivery projects. Peter is the author of Electronic Engagement: A Guide for Public Sector Managers and the co-author (with Rachel Gibson and Karin Geiselhart) of Electronic Democracy? The Impact of New Communications Technologies on Australian Democracy .
Dr Mimi Colligan
Mimi Colligan is currently working on a biography of two nineteenth century theatre personalities, Mr & Mrs GBW Lewis. Her research encompasses documentation at the Theatre Museum Archive and British Library in London. She is a Board member of the International Panorama Council. Mimi has curated an exhibition on the History of Cremorne Gardens 1853-1863 for a property developer. Recently, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
Dr Robert Crawford
Robert Crawford completed his PhD in 2002. He has concentrated on the history of Australia's advertising industry and its growth and development during the twentieth century. His work has been published in a range of journals, including Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, and Media History. Robert's forthcoming manuscript 'But Wait There's More': A History of Australia's Advertising Industry, 1900-2000 will be published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2007.
Dr John Lack
Dr John Lack is formerly Associate Professor in History at the University of Melbourne. He is a highly respected historian of Melbourne, of its industry, of migration and of the experience of Australians in war. He is chair of the Victorian working party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography of which he remains chair. John recently edited for publication his former colleague, the late Jacqueline Templeton's From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian Migrants Write Home From Australia 1860-1862 (2003).
Dr Kathleen McLean
In 2003 Kath McLean completed her doctoral thesis 'Culture, Commerce and Ambivalence: a study of Australian federal government intervention in book publishing' with the National Centre for Australian Studies. This thesis is a pioneering study of federal government intervention and the tension between culture and commerce in the book production and distribution. Her 1996 Masters thesis undertaken at the University of Tasmania was titled 'The Contemporary Australian book: a product of its time'. Kath is currently a Policy Officer with the Tasmanian Council of Social Services and is a guest contributor to the Graduate Publishing Program.
Dr Elizabeth Morrison
Dr Elizabeth Morrison is a doctoral graduate of the Faculty of Arts. She has made a vital and continuing contribution to Australian Studies and the history of the media in Australia. She has written one of the most comprehensive accounts of the history of the newspaper press in Australia in the nineteenth century, Engines of Influence: Newspaper of Country Victoria, 1840-1890 (2005). Elizabeth has published extensively on serial fiction in the Australian press. She is well known for her scholarly editions of the works of the novelist Ada Cambridge.
Mr Paul Ormonde
Paul Ormonde has written widely on the interaction between the Catholic Church and the Australian Labor Party. He has written a biography of Dr Jim Cairns, A Foolish Passionate Man (Penguin 1982) and two studies of the Santamaria Movement - The Movement, Nelson 1972, and Santamaria - the Politics of Fear (ed.) (Spectrum 2000). He is currently researching the Participants, a Labor Party group which campaigned to bring about federal executive intervention in the Victorian branch of the party in 1970, an intervention that was an important prelude to the election of the Whitlam government in 1972.
Dr Morna Sturrock
Dr Morna Sturrock has had an active and distinguished career as a journalist, community worker, researcher and prominent Anglican lay person. She was included in the Order of Australia General Division (AM) Queen's Birthday Honors list, 2003, for services to ecclesiastical and secular embroidery and the community. In 2005 she completed her doctoral thesis with NCAS. Her study Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne 1876-1888 was published by Australian Scholarly Publishing in 2005.