The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies The Australian Centre

Staff Areas of Expertise


Research supervision is possible in a wide range of fields. Browse individual staff profiles for further details of research interests and previous supervisions. This list is not exhaustive - it provides a general guide to the interests of individual academics.

 

Staff member

Email

Research/teaching areas

Dr Mammad Aidani

maidani@unimelb.edu.au

Phenomenology, social suffering and embodiment, displaced narratives of Iranian and Middle-Eastern migrants and refugees, Persian literature, Iranian cultural and religious identities in the West, belonging and the political imagination and 'Otherness' as a key phenomena of Middle Eastern narratives in contemporary Australian society.

Dr Fay Anderson

faa@unimelb.edu.au

Australian cultural and social history, war journalism, media studies, biography, genocide, war, crime, censorship, popular culture, academic freedom, intellectual ideas and institutions and education.

Dr Michael Cathcart

cathcart@unimelb.edu.au

Australian history and contemporary society, Australian water policy and history, the arts in Australia especially theatre.

Professor Kate Darian-Smith

k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au

Australian cultural and social history, particularly in the twentieth century; war and Australian society, with reference to gender; the relationship between memory and history; museum studies and forms of exhibiting histories and cultures; and colonial discourse and postcolonial studies; rural cultures

Dr Jennifer Jones

ja.jones@unimelb.edu.au

Indigenous Australian literature, Indigenous Australian history, contemporary Australian literature, cross-cultural collaboration and the construction of identity (rurality and whiteness), editorial praxis, Women's life writing, Wiradjuri history, Country Women's Association

Dr Tanja Luckins

tluckins@unimelb.edu.au

Australian History, cultural history and popular culture, myth memory and history, material culture, the pub, World War I and II, the 1960s, cosmopolitanism

Dr Helen MacDonald

h.macdonald@unimelb.edu.au

Human remains, anatomical objects in hospitals and museums, the law and unethical uses of the dead, the history of human dissection, post-mortem examinations, and organ transplants.

Associate Professor John Murphy

john.murphy1@unimelb.edu.au

Australian social and political history since the second world war, the historical development of Australian social policy, public narratives about welfare, masculinity and nation, the interplay of memory, history and biography

Associate Professor Nathalie Nguyen

nathalie.nguyen@unimelb.edu.au

The Vietnamese diaspora in Australia and overseas, women's oral and written narratives, memory and trauma in refugee narratives Vietnamese Francophone literature

Dr Rebe Taylor

rttaylor@unimelb.edu.au

Tasmanian Aboriginal people within the scientific imagination from the early twentieth to the twenty-first centuries

Dr Graham Willett

gwillett@unimelb.edu.au

Gay and lesbian history, politics and culture - Australia and international; social and political change in Australia since WW2

Dr Sara Wills

s.wills@unimelb.edu.au

Migration and multicultural studies; in particular, social memory and migration, refugee issues, and the meaning of hospitality and cosmopolitanism in an Australian context

 

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