- Semester 2, 2009 -- ARC Teaching Relief
- Semester 1, 2010 -- Study Leave
- Semester 2, 2010 -- ARC Teaching Relief
- Supervision:
5 PhD students | Not currently available for PhD supervision
4 Honours students | Not available for Honours supervision in 2010
HSTY1076: American History from Lincoln to Clinton
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HSTY2670 New York, New York
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OLD UNITS
A History of the United States Before 1865
2000, 2002
Childhood and Youth in Modern America
2001, 2002
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HSTY4011 Crime & Punishment
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American History on the World Wide Web I
2002
American History on the World Wide Web II
2002
Nick Irving, Global Thought, Local Action: A Transnational Reassessment of the Australian Anti-War Movement, 1959-1972
-- enrolled 2005
Michael Thompson, The Christian Left and American Foreign Policy in the first half of the Twentieth Century
-- enrolled 2005
Matthew Oram, The history of LSD psychotherapy in the US, 1950-1970
-- upgraded from MPhil, 2009
Connor Hanan, Art, Activism, and Protest in New York City, 1968 through the 1970s
-- enrolled 2009
Anna Lebovic, Vogue and American Culture, 1945-1980
-- enrolled 2009
- Erin Byrne,
Urban Wars: City Spaces. Racial Tensions and Local Fear Politics in the 1970s - Robert Linsley,
Murphy's Law: James J. Bulger, the Irish Mob and Representations of Organized Crime in Postwar America - Bernard Ross,
Shaping the Black Bourgeoisie: The New York Amsterdam News and the New York Age, 1925-1935 - Danielle Thyer,
Seeing the Unseen: Assessing the Visibility of the Great Depression in New York City, 1929-1942
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
<Winner of the University Medal>
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"
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"
“What’s Wrong with Online Readings? Text, Hypertext, and the History Web,”
The History Teacher 39, 4 (August 2006): 441-54
Co-Editor (with Paul Taillon), “Teaching American Studies," Australasian Journal of American Studies, 2005-
- Teaching Students to Read Online Sources (July 2005)
- Forum on Teaching the US in the World after 9/11 (December 2005)
- Teaching Popular Music & Hip Hop (July 2006)
- Postmodernism (December 2006)
- Teaching Hollywood Film, Pt 1 (July 2007)
- Teaching Hollywood Film, Pt 2 (December 2007)
- Teaching American Sport Down Under (July 2008)
- ANZASA Conference Roundtable on Australian Attitudes towards the US & the American Studies Classroom (December 2008)
- Surveying the US History Survey (July 2009)
Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching (Design & Practice) Award, 2008
Faculty of Arts Teaching Initiative Award, 2002
Department of History Image Bank
Teaching Improvement Fund Small Grant, 2002
To complete an article on the American History on the World Wide Web course
Arts Online Project Grant, 2001
To develop a new course: American History on the World Wide Web