| Staff member |
Email |
Research/teaching area |
| Dr Dvir Abramovich |
dvir@unimelb.edu.au |
Hebrew and Jewish literature, contemporary trends in Judaism, anti-semitism, interfaith dialogue, reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians and Muslims and Jews |
| 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 Andrew Brown-May |
a.brown-may@unimelb.edu.au |
Urban history, material culture, public history, and Australian social history |
| Dr Jane Carey |
jcarey@unimelb.edu.au |
Historical theory and research, critical race theory |
| Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch |
mecass@unimelb.edu.au |
Medieval Europe, cultural history- aspects of power, space and memory |
| Mr Michael Cathcart |
cathcart@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian history and contemporary society, Australian water policy and history, the arts in Australia especially theatre. |
| Dr Kim Chong-Gossard |
koc@unimelb.edu.au |
Greek tragedy, gender theory, Senecan drama, Roman prosopography, Latin pedagogy |
| Dr Ian Coller |
icoller@unimelb.edu.au |
Cosmopolitanism and diversity in past and present, the historical construction of identities, modern France, and the exchanges between Europe and the Muslim world in the modern era. |
| Prof Joy Damousi |
j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian cultural history; war and memory; history of emotions; feminist history; labour history; intellectual history |
| Prof 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 |
| Dr Jacqueline Dickenson |
jackied@unimelb.edu.au |
Political history, labour history, and intellectual history |
| Dr Michelle Duffy |
med@unimelb.edu.au |
Performance and place, identity, belonging, community and well-being; the significance of sound and music in constituting communal space; the policies and practices of local government with regards to cultural practice, Australian-Asian cultural relations, Australian Indigenous culture, tourism and festival policies and practices, multiculturalism, and contemporary cultural theory |
| Dr Penelope Edmonds |
edmondsp@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian and Pacific region colonial and contact histories, public histories, cultural heritage, and museums |
| Dr Rhiannon Evans |
rmevans@unimelb.edu.au |
Roman cultural history, ethnicity, gender and status in the ancient Roman world, Latin literature of the imperial period, Roman satire |
| A/Prof Antonia Finnane |
a.finnane@unimelb.edu.au |
Social history and material culture of China, history of consumption |
| Dr Susan Foley |
skfoley@unimelb.edu.au |
European, particularly French, history; Socialism; dissident ideas and movements; women's history, feminisms and gender relations; biography and autobiography |
| Dr David Goodman |
d.goodman@unimelb.edu.au |
American history, Australian history, radio, democracy, public discussion, cultural history |
| Prof Patricia Grimshaw |
p.grimshaw@unimelb.edu.au |
Gender, race and citizenship in Australia and America; women's history and family history |
| Dr Dianne Hall |
dhall@unimelb.edu.au |
Medieval social and women's history, Irish medieval and early modern history, the Irish diaspora |
| Dr Nikki Henningham |
n.henningham@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian women's sporting history, women's history and archival practice, oral history |
| Dr Louise Hitchcock |
l.hitchcock@unimelb.edu.au |
Aegean Bronze Age archaeology and architecture (Minoan Crete, Mycenaean Greece, & the Cyclades), Cypriot archaeology, Israelite & Philistine architecture, archaeological theory |
| Dr Heather Jackson |
heatherj@unimelb.edu.au |
Ancient Greek vase iconography, Hellenistic lamps from the Near East, classical and Hellenistic terracotta figurines, Hellenistic pottery, in particular the commonwares of Jebel Khalid, chemical analysis of clays, Hellenistic wall-painting, Greek houses and households, particularly in the near East |
| Dr Andrew Jamieson |
asj@unimelb.edu.au |
Archaeology of the ancient Near East and Egypt, historical archaeology, the conservation and interpretation of archaeological sites, high temperature industries and the study of ceramics, and ethno-archaeological research |
| Dr Barbara Keys |
bkeys@unimelb.edu.au |
20th century America, U.S. foreign relations, the Cold War in global perspective, transnational movements, globalization |
| Dr Catherine Kovesi |
c.kovesi@unimelb.edu.au |
Renaissance Italian history – cultural, social, and political history, Australian religious history |
| Dr Parshia Lee-Stecum |
ppls@unimelb.edu.au |
Roman poetry of the Augustan period (especially Roman erotic elegy), magic in the Greco-Roman world, the circulation of ideology in Roman culture, Roman myth and self-identity |
| 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 |
| Prof Stuart Macintyre |
s.macintyre@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian history, British history, labour history, political history, historiography, intellectual history |
| A/Prof Christopher Mackie |
cjmackie@unimelb.edu.au |
Greek and Roman epic poetry (especially Homer and Vergil), Greek and Roman mythology, Greek heroes and contemporary superheroes, the reception of Classical antiquity in modern times, the Dardanelles region in antiquity as a historical and archaeological background to the 1915 Gallipoli campaign |
| Prof Vera Mackie |
vmackie@unimelb.edu.au |
Japanese history, gender studies and cultural studies, visual culture, histories of the body |
| Dr Dolly Mackinnon |
a.mackinnon@unimelb.edu.au |
Early modern British social and cultural history, focusing on landscapes, soundscapes, and material culture, Modern British, and Australian histories of medicine and psychiatry, Music as medicine, British early music history and performance, Popular music, and film music |
| Prof Elizabeth Malcolm |
e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au |
Modern Irish social history, Irish historiography, violence and gender |
| Dr Sonia Martin |
sonia.martin@unimelb.edu.au |
Sociology, including: poverty, inequality, social exclusion, political economy, social policy, labour markets and social geography |
| Dr Katharine McGregor |
k.mcgregor@unimelb.edu.au |
Southeast Asian history and Asian studies, Indonesian history, history, memory and violence |
| Dr Amanda McLeod |
amcleod@unimelb.edu.au |
Social, consumer and commercial history |
| Prof Peter McPhee |
p.mcphee@unimelb.edu.au |
Revolutionary France |
| Mr Glenn Moore |
g.moore@unimelb.edu.au |
American labour history, history of leisure, gender and labour |
| A/Prof 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 |
| Dr 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 Richard Pennell |
rpennell@unimelb.edu.au |
Middle Eastern history, modern political history, history of North Africa |
| Dr Keir Reeves |
keir@unimelb.edu.au |
Australian and New Zealand history, cultural heritage, history of gold mining communities, history of the Chinese in Victoria |
| Dr Gideon Reuveni |
g.reuveni@unimelb.edu.au |
Jewish history, Modern European history, German history, history of reading |
| Prof Antonio Sagona |
a.sagona@unimelb.edu.au |
Archaeology of the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia and Caucasus |
| Dr Sean Scalmer |
sscalmer@unimelb.edu.au |
Sociology of work; democracy; intellectuals; the media; social class; social movements; non-violence; the future; and research methods |
| Dr Charles Schencking |
j.schencking@unimelb.edu.au |
Modern Japanese history |
| Prof Frank Sear |
fsear@unimelb.edu.au |
Roman architecture, especially Roman theatres, a study of their design and development, using material, epigraphic and literary evidence; Roman wall and vault mosaics, with special reference to the glass used in the manufacture of mosaic tesserae; Pompeian houses, especially their architecture and water systems. Roman concrete structures, including analysis of the materials used to make Roman concrete |
| Prof John Sinclair |
j.sinclair@unimelb.edu.au |
The globalisation of the media in Australia, with particular reference to the advertising industry, taken in its broadest political, economic and cultural aspects |
| A/Prof Robyn Sloggett |
rjslog@unimelb.edu.au |
The scientific analysis of artwork, conservation policy development, materials and techniques of Australian artists, art authentication and significance assessment as a tool in preservation and collection management |
| Dr Jenny Spinks |
jspinks@unimelb.edu.au |
Monsters, wonders and disasters in early modern Europe, “wonder books” in sixteenth-century France and Germany, witches and witch-hunting in early modern Europe |
| Dr Rebe Taylor |
rttaylor@unimelb.edu.au |
Tasmanian Aboriginal people within the scientific imagination from the early twentieth to the twenty-first centuries; case studies of four archival collections, at least one to be published digitally in collaboration with Austhec |
| Dr Justin Tighe |
jtighe@unimelb.edu.au |
North-West and geographic visions of the Inner Asian frontier in 20th century China; politics of territorial and spatial representation within Chinese nationalism; the history of Inner Mongolia and the Chinese Northwest, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries; Republican Chinese travel writing; memory, oral history and Chinese revolutionary historiography; and modern state formation and nationalism in China and Inner Asia |
| Dr Mary Tomsic |
mtomsic@unimelb.edu.au |
History of popular culture and film in Australia, history of gender and sexuality in Australia |
| Dr Richard Trembath |
glennt@unimelb.edu.au |
The history of Australian war journalism |
| A/Prof Gocha Tsetskhladze |
g.tsetskhladze@unimelb.edu.au |
Greek archaeology and history of the archaic and classical periods; Greek colonisation; the archaeology of the Black Sea, Anatolia and Europe in the 1st millennium BC |
| Dr Andrew Turner |
ajturner@unimelb.edu.au |
Editing Latin texts from manuscript, ancient writers, particularly Roman writers of the early second century |
| Dr Frederik Vervaet |
fvervaet@unimelb.edu.au |
Roman history, political and institutional history of the Republic and the Early Empire, Roman public law, prosopography of the Senate |
| Dr Steven Welch |
s.welch@unimelb.edu.au |
Modern German history, military and social history, histories of fascism, histories of masculinity |
| Prof Stephen Wheatcroft |
s.wheatcroft@unimelb.edu.au |
Russian pre-revolutionary history, Soviet social, economic and demographic history, famine and food supply problems in modern world history, the impact of media on history, and modern Russian and Ukrainian society |
| Mr Rowan Wilken |
rwilken@unimelb.edu.au |
Media and 'new' media; the convergence of media, cultural and architectural theory; aesthetics; practice and poetics of everyday life. |
| 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 |
