contents
 introduction
 scope
 activities
 capacities
 infrastructure
 & benefits
 participants
    dennis altman
    michelle arrow
    paul arthur
    carol bacchi
    ros bandt
    larissa behrendt
    mary besemeres
    richard broome
    chilla bulbeck
    anthony burke
    david carment
    david carter
    jock collins
    liz conor
    greg craven
    martin crotty
    denis cryle
    ann curthoys
    kate darian-smith
    lynette finch
    rae frances
    lucy frost
    stephen garton     heather goodall
    anna haebich
    dennis haskell
    anthony hassall
    jeannie herbert
    jenny hocking
    alison holland
    elizabeth jacka
    bruce johnson
    carol johnson
    mary kalantzis
    marilyn lake
    kateryna longley
    andrew mccann
    chris mcconville
    russell mcdougall
    philip mead
    clive moore
    nicole moore
    stephen muecke
    ffion murphy
    john murphy
    martin nakata
    garth nettheim
    karl neuenfeldt
    christine nicholls
    richard nile
    marguerite nolan
    wenche ommundsen
    darlene oxenham
    maureen perkins
    emily potter
    jan ryan
    kay saunders
    sean scalmer
    bruce scates
    kay schaffer
    joanne scott
    graham seal
    june senyard
    sue sheridan
    judith smart
    tom stannage
    daniela stehlik
    jenny strauss
    sian supski
    hsu-ming teo
    graham tulloch
    james walter
    richard waterhouse
    elizabeth webby
    gus worby
    clare wright

 participants: martin crotty
 Martin Crotty
Lecturer in History
University of Queensland


Research Projects
My main current project is a history of the Returned Services League (RSL), established in 1916 and ever since a powerful, loyalist and conservative spokesbody for Australia's returned servicemen and women. The history will be not so much an organisational history, but a history of the RSL's contribution to discourses about Australian citizenship. The project will consider, on the positive side, the RSL and the elevation of the Anzac soldier to a position embodying Australian civic values and, on the negative side, RSL activism against minority groups such "Blosheviks", "Huns" and all "enemy aliens" in wartime.

A further project is a more light-hearted and popular collection of essays on "The Great Mistakes of Australian History." The idea is to use well-known blunders in Australian history as a way of telling serious stories about broader issues. The introduction of the rabbit and the cane toad, for example, will provide a suitable jumping-off point for a consideration of how Australians have interacted with their environment in the years since European settlement.

Grants

2004 University of Queensland RSL history $10,000

2002 University of Newcastle Conference travel to AHA $308

2002 British Academy of Social Sciences RSL history �1,750

2002 Ian Potter Foundation RSL history $2,000

2000 University of Newcastle Conference travel to UK $2,000

2000 University of Melbourne Publication subsidy $2,000

1999 University of Newcastle The war in the Barossa (aborted) $8,300
Publications
Books

Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity, 1870-1920, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001.

Edited Books

Raiding Clio's Closet: Postgraduate Presentations in History, 1997, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1997 (co-edited with Doug Scobie).

A Race for a Place: Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia � Proceedings of the 2000 History and Sociology of Eugenics Conference, University of Newcastle, 28-29 April 2000. Newcastle: Newcastle University, 2000 (co-edited with John Germov and Grant Rodwell).

Australia to 1901: Readings in the Making of a Nation, Tertiary Press, Melbourne, 2002. (forthcoming, introduced and co-edited with Erik Eklund).

Journal Articles

"Receiving Ideology: Memoirs of Scotch College in the 1920s", International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 19, 2003 (forthcoming).

"Australian Public Schoolboy Sporting Violence and the Making of the Man, 1850-1914", International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 20, no. 3, September 2003, pp. 1-16.

"Frontier Fantasies: Boys' Adventure Stories and the Construction of Masculinity in Australia, 1870-1920", Journal of Colonial History, vol. 3, no. 1, 2001, pp. 55-76.

"Manly and Moral: The Making of Middle-Class Men in the Australian Public School", The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 17, nos. 2 & 3, 2000, pp. 11-30.

"The Woman in the Boy: Mothers and their Public Schoolboy Sons in Australian Juvenile Literature, 1875-1920", Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1999, pp. 3-17.

"Making English Gentlemen from Australian Boys?: The Manly Ideal in Two Elite Victorian Secondary Schools, 1870-1920", Australian Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, 1998, pp. 44-67.

"'Separate and Distinct': The Manual Labour Question in Nineteenth-Century Victorian Rowing", The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 15, no. 2, August 1998, pp. 152-63.

Chapters in Books

"'There's a Tumult in the Distance, and a War-Song in the Air': Violence and Sport in the Australian Public School of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century" in D. Hemphill (ed.), All Part of the Game: Violence and Australian Sport, Walla Walla Press, Sydney, 1998, pp. 1-18.

"Waxing Lyrical: Poetry and Song and Public School Ideology of Sport in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Australia" in June Senyard (ed.), Polemics, Politics and Play: Essays in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Sporting History, Department of History, Melbourne, 1997, pp. 103-31.

"'Loyal Scions of the British Race': Sport and the Construction of the Australian Public Schoolboy, 1850-c. 1920" in M. Crotty and D. Scobie (eds), Raiding Clio's Closet: Postgraduate Presentations in History, 1997, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1997, pp. 45-60.

Conference Proceedings

"'We are the Men of Tomorrow': Boy Rescue Movements and the Australian Citizen 1870-1920" in Martin Crotty, John Germov and Grant Rodwell (eds), A Race for a Place: Eugenics, Darwinism and Social Thought and Practice in Australia � Proceedings of the 2000 History and Sociology of Eugenics Conference, University of Newcastle, 28-29 April 2000. Newcastle: Newcastle University, 2000, pp. 229-34.

Review Essays and Symposia Contributions

"Australia's Heart of Darkness", Metascience, vol. 12, 2003, pp. 153-175. Review symposium of Warwick Anderson's The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial destiny in Australia, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2002. Symposium contributions from Paul Turnbull, Stephen Garton, Martin Crotty and Warwick Anderson.
Currently Supervised PhD Projects
Damien Stringer � Australian Vietnam Veterans return: Homecoming and Repatriation Craig Melrose � The History of the Australian War Memorial, 1919-1941
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 publications
Martin Crotty, Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870-1920, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2001. [details]
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