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Professor of History
Dean of Faculty of Arts
University of Sydney
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Research Projects
2004 � ARC Linkage-Infrastructure Grant CI (with T. Grifffiths, S. Macintyre, D. Carment, D. Horner, J. McCalman, P. Buckridge, J. Roe, P. Jalland, A. Mackinnon, G. Davison, C. Stannage) � 'The ADB Online: A Database of National Biography' � administered by ANU � $376,066.
2003-7 � ARC Discovery (CI with A/Prof Shane White, Dr S. Robertson, Dr G. White) 'Black Metropolis: Harlem 1915-30', $640,000
2002 � University Sesqui Grant (with Fiona Cameron) � 'Objects of knowledge -multidisciplinary approaches in museum collections documentation' ($13,000)
2001-3: ARC Large Grant (CI with Jill Roe and Beverley Kingston) ($272,000) 'A Supplementary Volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1770-1980'.
2001-3: ARC Spirt Grant Chief Investigator (with Fiona Cameron) ($160,000) 'Museum Controversies', Industry Partners Australian Museum, National Maritime Museum, Australian War Memorial.
2000-2001: ARC Spirt Grant Chief Investigator ($59,000) 'Themescaping Virtual Collections', Industry Partners, Vernon Systems Ltd and Powerhouse Museum.
1998-2000 - ARC Spirt Grant Associate Investigator (Dr Alison Bashford Chief Investigator � $196,087) � 'The History and Material Culture of Public Health in Australia', Industry Partner, Powerhouse Museum.
1997-9: ARC Large Grant ($125,000) � 'Governing Problem Populations'.
Significant contributions to this research
Major areas of research have been in the history of madness, eugenics, social policy, masculinity, sexuality and return from war. Major books are:
Histories of Sexuality: Antiquity to Sexual Revolution Equinox, London (forthcoming 2004)
The Cost of War: Australians Return, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp.310.
Out of Luck: Poor Australians and Social Welfare 1788-1988 Allen and Unwin, Sydney 1990, pp.224.
Medicine and Madness: A Social History of Insanity in New South Wales 1880-1940, NSW University Press, Kensington, 1988, pp.222.
Refereed Publications in the past five years
Histories of Sexuality: Antiquity to Sexual Revolution Equinox, London (forthcoming 2004)
'Managing Mercy: African Americans, Parole and Paternalism in Georgia, 1919-1945', Journal of Social History, vol.36, no.3, 2003, 675-99.
'Changi as Television: Myth, Narrative, Film and History', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 73, 2002, 79-88.
'Contesting Enslavement: Marriage, Manhood and My Brilliant Career', Australian Literary Studies, vol.20, no.4, October 2002, 336-49.
' "How much more generally applicable are remedial words than medicines": Care of the Mentally I'll in south Australia, 1858-1884' (with Evelyn Shlolowitz), Journal of Australian Colonial history, vol.4, no.1, April 2002, 81-103.
'The Scales of Suffering: Love, Death and Victorian Masculinity', Social History, vol. 27, no. 1, January 2002, 40-58.
'Asylum Histories: Reconsidering Australia's Lunatic Past' in Catharine Coleborne and Dolly Mackinnon (eds), Madness in Australia: histories, heritage and the asylum, UQP, St Lucia, 2003, 11-21.
'Longing for War: Nostalgia and Australian Returned Soldiers After WWI', in Michael Roper, Graham Dawson, Timothy Ashplant (eds), The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration, Routledge, London, 2000, 222-39.
Ten Career-best Publications (Relevant to Project)
The Cost of War: Australians Return, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp.310.
Medicine and Madness: A Social History of Insanity in New South Wales 1880-1940, NSW University Press, Kensington, 1988, pp.222.
'Contesting Enslavement: Marriage, Manhood and My Brilliant Career', Australian Literary Studies, vol.20, no.4, October 2002, 336-49.
'The Scales of Suffering: Love, Death and Victorian Masculinity', Social History, vol. 27, no. 1, January 2002, 40-58.
'Longing for War: Nostalgia and Australian Returned Soldiers After WWI', in Michael Roper, Graham Dawson, Timothy Ashplant (eds), The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration, Routledge, London, 2000, 222-39.
'Freud versus the Rat: Understanding Shell Shock in World War I', Australian Cultural History, no.16, 1997/8, 45-59 (also published in David Walker and Michael Bennett (eds), Intellect and Emotion: Essays in Honour of Michael Roe, Deakin University Press, Geelong, 1998).
'Sound Minds and Healthy Bodies: Re-considering Eugenics in Australia 1914-1940' Australian Historical Studies, vol.26, no.103, October 1994, 163-81.
'"Feed him to the sharks": the Graeme Thorne kidnapping' Australian Cultural History, No.12, 1993, 29-42.
'The "Tyranny" of Doctors: The Citizen's Liberty League in New South Wales, 1920-1939' Australian Historical Studies, Vol.24, No.97, October 1991, 340-58.
'Sir Charles Mackellar: Psychiatry, Eugenics and Child Welfare in New South Wales 1900-1914' Historical Studies Vol.22, No.86, 1986, 21-34.
Other Evidence of Impact and Contributions to the Field
Fellow of both Academy of Social Sciences and Academy of Humanities, frequent invitations to give conference papers both here and overseas and frequent citation of major articles and books in many publications (especially in the area of eugenics, madness and returned soldiers).
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
Research supervisions
Completed and Submitted theses
Mark Staniforth 'Passenger Travel to Australia 1838-88'(MA - 1993)
Morris Graham 'A.B. Piddington' (1993)
Erik Eklund 'Space and Locality at Port Kembla 1900-50' (1995)
Leonora Ritter 'William and Mary Windeyer' (1995)
Samantha Frappell (co-supervisor) 'Religion in NSW 1950-70' (1995)
John Pomeroy 'Morale in Sydney in World War II' (1996)
Ian Hoskins 'Public Space in Sydney 1820-1940'(1996)
Fiona Skyring 'Riots Against Disloyalty 1918-20' (1997)
Chris Mead 'Education in 19thc NSW' (2000)
Mark Hearn 'John Dwyer: Radicalism and Anarchism in Sydney, 1890-1920' (2001)
Fiona Cameron 'Museums in New Zealand' (Uni of Otago) 2001
Peter Quinn 'Juvenile justice in NSW, 1905-88' (submitted 2004)
Postgraduate Research Students Being Supervised
Shino Konishi '18thc Representations of Australian Aborigines'
Colin Bale 'Australian War Grave Inscriptions 1915-30'
Postdoctoral Fellows
Fiona Cameron (APDI - 2001-4) � Museum Controversies.
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