Supervision

PhDs
     
  • Nick Irving, Global Thought, Local Action: A Transnational Reassessment of the Australian Anti-War Movement, 1959-1972

  • Michael Thompson, The Christian Left and American Foreign Policy in the first half of the Twentieth Century
  • Daniel Fleming, Memorializing Martin Luther King
       
Honours Theses   
2008
  • Anna Lebovic ,
    Pushing the Boundaries: Jacqueline Kennedy, Womanhood and Style in Early 1960s America
  • Matthew Lucas,
    1996: A Landmark in Australia’s Americanisation Discourse
  • Michael Morgan,
    ‘In the spectre of an erstwhile enemy’: Richard Nixon, the American Press and the China Summit of 1972
 
  • Matthew Varley,
    Phrenology and the Insanity Defence:  Medical Jurisprudence in the McNaughtan Trial
  • Connor Hanan,
    'Motor City is Burning': Community, Culture and Race in the Underground Press of Detriot, 1964-69
  • Chris Croke,
    The Age of Innocents: Wrongful Convictions and Post-modern America

2007
  • Tristan Harley, "Disguised as Jazz: The Cosmic Projections of Sun Ra"
  • Rebecca Chan,
    "No Matter if you're black or white: Toni Morrison's rejection of "black" and black nationalist rhetoric in the 1970s"
 
 

2006 ON LEAVE    

2005
  • Julia Kelly,
    “The Role of Glam-Rock Music in the Construction of a Bisexual Identity in America, 1970-2005”
  • Thomas Fischer,
    “God in the Details: How Computer Strategy Games Play With History”
 
 

2004
  • Ilse Scheepers,
    "Graffiti and Urban Space"
  • Sean Kelly,
    "Prozac Wars"

    <Winner of the University Medal>
  • Nick Irving,
    “Playing War: Computer Games as Historical Text”

2003
  • Justin Marshall,
    "What’s Under Those Haircuts? New Romantic and Glam Metal Pioneers reveal their relationship to the ‘Masculine Crisis’ story!"
  • Sam Lebovic,
    "The Rocking Redcoats Are Coming: The Beatles Invasion of America and the Globalising of Culture, 1964-1966"
  • Madilein Butt,
    "“Processes of objectification, rationalization and subjectification”: The role of the body in contemporary serial killer crime fiction"

2002
  • Amelia Toy,
    "Kennedy's Image and the Cuban Missile Crisis"
  • Amy Stevens,
    "The Haunted Identities of Fin De Millennium America: Subjectivity and Survival in Buffy, The Vampire Slayer"
  • Benjamin Scott, "Prophet Margin: Muhammad Ali, Performance and Cultural Style"
 
  • Luisa Mockler,
    "Illegal Abortion in New York City: An Account from the Case Files of the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, 1936-1966"
  • Ian Ison,
    "Acculturation and the Dilemma for American Catholicism"
  • Sam Indyk, "Campaigning as Governing: Spin Doctors and the Clinton Presidency" <Joint Honours in History and Government>
 
  • Paul Garbin,
    "Facing Both Ways: The American Dream and the Great Depression"
  • Michael Evans,
    "Into the Sunset: American Manhood and the Western Myth at Century's End"
 

2001
  • Penelope Roberts, "Christmas and Easter in Twentieth Century Australia"
  • Robert Campbell,
    "Stars and Gripes: Affronts to the Symbolism of the US Flag throughout its history"
 
 

2000
  • Deborah Tadros,
    "The American Boy: Juvenile Delinquency and Masculinity in America during the 1950s"
  • Kristina Gottschall, "'Beyond Freak': Confession and Sexology in The Jerry Springer Show"
 
 

Last Updated 23 October, 2008