Research School of Humanities
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Emeritus
Professor Ken Taylor AM has degrees in Geography, Town Planning
and Landscape Architecture and is former Professor of Landscape
Architecture and Co-Director, Cultural Heritage Research
Centre, University of Canberra. He has had a research and
professional interest in cultural landscapes since the mid-1980s
and published nationally and internationally on their intangible
values, meanings and conservation management. His current
work involves the application of this to Asia-Pacific region
countries, including Australia, as the social and economic
role of cultural heritage expands, and particularly through
the understanding of authenticity in Asian cultures. He
is a Visiting Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok,
where he teaches on the International Program in Architectural
Heritage Management and Tourism. As a Board member of AusHeritage
he has participated in missions to a number of countries
including India most recently at the 2004 workshop with
INTACH (Indian National trust for Art and Cultural heritage)
in preparation for an Indian Cultural Heritage Charter;
Indonesia; and in August 2004 he will be involved in a workshop
and conference in Myanmar. He has given guest lectures at
various universities in the USA, Canada, Britain, France
and Asia-Pacific region. He has been a consultant to UNESCO
and the World Heritage Centre, particularly in relation
to cultural landscape values.
Rick
Kuhn is a reader in political science in the School of Social
Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University.
His interests include Australian politics and political
economy, Marxist theory and practice. Also see www.anu.edu.au/polsci/rick.
At the Humanities Research Centre he will be extending work
for the biography Henryk Grossman and the recovery of Marxism,
to examine Grossman's understandings of imperialism from
the period before the First World War when he was a Jewish
workers' leader in Krakow, through his membership of the
Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt where he gained
a high profile as a theorist of economic crises, to his
exile in Paris, London and New York. Rick will also be examining
the pattern of anti-Muslim racism in Australia from a comparative
perspective. 
Susan
Forsyth is an independent scholar, freelance book indexer,
and Associate Fellow of the Department of Literature, Film,
and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
Dr
Stephen Gapps’ PhD thesis, Performing the Past: A
Cultural History of Historical Re-enactments, was the first
interrogation of the history and practices of re-enactment.
Stephen has taught Public History, Australian History, Colonialism
and Cultural Studies subjects at UTS and worked as a professional
historian in a wide range of heritage projects for government,
industry and the media.
Ann
Vickery is a Monash Fellow in the Centre for Women's Studies
& Gender Research at Monash University, Australia. She
is currently working on two large projects, the first investigating
the careers and reputations of post-war Australian women
poets and the second examining the relationship between
women writers and artists of the New York School. Both studies
rethink the relationship between 'text' and 'life' as well
as analyse the sociopoetics of authorship. Ann is the author
of Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language
Writing (Wesleyan UP, 2000) and Stressing the Modern: Cultural
Politics in Australian Women's Poetry (Salt, UK, forthcoming
2007). She has published widely in the area of Australian
poetry and innovative women's writing and was editor-in-chief
of HOW2 (
Peter
Putnis is interested in the role of technologies of communication
and the networks they enable in social formation and historical
change. His research focuses on global developments in communication
between 1840 and 1920. The fast developing new communication
technologies of the nineteenth century, and the media they
recast, allowed ideas and cultural values, often in the
form of news discourse, to be transmitted around the world
linking geographically disparate regions in a dynamic relationship.
He is completing an ARC funded project on ‘Overseas
news in the press in Australia and its conditions of production,
1860-1910’. This includes examination of the way the
media helped construct the apprehension of world events
in Australia in this period. 
With
writing interests in fiction and non-fiction, Dr Shady Cosgrove
is currently researching how narrative fiction techniques
can be incorporated into creative non-fiction and how this
affects popular and theoretical understandings of the two
genres. Her current non-fiction work-in-progress The Beginner's
Guide to Elvis is structured around three themes: the cultural
significance of Elvis Presley to contemporary American culture,
family mythologies, and notions of pilgrimage. It also explores
three genres: the essay, the memoir and documentary writing.
Anne
Brennan is an artist and writer; she lectures in the Art
Theory Workshop at the School of Art, ANU. She has written
and published extensively on issues in contemporary visual
arts, craft and design. Anne’s research interests
focus on history, memory and commemoration; she is especially
interested in the way in which these are configured in public
artefacts such as the museum and the memorial. She has undertaken
several important artistic projects in museums, including
Secure the Shadow at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum
with Sydney artist Anne Ferran in 1994 and Is It Real at
the Australian War Memorial, part of the Archives and
the Everyday project in 1997. More recently, she worked
with Anne Ferran on a commissioned work, Twice Removed,
for the Maitland Regional Gallery as part of the HunterArt1:
Art Tourist project in 2004. The exhibition dealt with
the mass migration from Calais to Maitland in 1848 of English
artisans working in the French machine lace-making industry.
Dr
Helena Hammond holds a D.Phil. in History of Art from the
University of Oxford and an MA from Yale University and
a BA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, both also in History
of Art. She is Lecturer in Dance for Warwick University.
Previous teaching posts held in art history include as Lecturer
at the University of Edinburgh and Visiting Lecturer at
the Courtauld Institute of Art and Helena has also worked
as Interim Education Manager at English National Ballet.
Her research interests are centred in nineteenth and twentieth-century
dance. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Society
for Dance Research, is a regular contributor to the Dance
Gazette published by the Royal Academy of Dance and
contributed to The Oxford History of Western Art, ed.
Martin Kemp (OUP 2000). 
William
L. Fox is an independent scholar who has published numerous
books on cognition and landscape, most of which are set
in extreme environments such as deserts and the polar regions.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute,
and been awarded grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,
National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Science
Foundation. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
and Explorer's Club, and has also published fifteen collections
of poetry and several monographs on photography.
Toby
Haggith works in the Film and Video Archive of the Imperial
War Museum, where he is head of Public Services and devises
the cinema programme. He studied history and politics at
the University of York, and then later the economic and
social history of Britain at Birkbeck College, University
of London. His doctorate, which he undertook at the Centre
for Social History in the University of Warwick, was about
the representation of slum clearance and town planning in
British films in the period 1918-1951. His published writings
include essays on British peace-aims films of the Second
World War; official film and British national identity;
Otto Neurath and Isotype typography in propaganda films
of the Second World War; and an examination of 'truth' and
'reality' in Saving Private Ryan. In 1999 he led a project
to reconstruct the musical medley recommended to be played
to accompany screenings of the official documentary The
Battle of the Somme, when it was distributed in 1916/17.
He has introduced numerous screenings of this film accompanied
by a live piano rendition of this score, most recently at
the 2006 Silent Film Festival in Pordenone. This project,
and the historical issues raised, are discussed in an essay
published in issue 1 of volume 14 (2002) of the journal
Film History. He was also the author for the film sections
for two educational CD Roms about The Battle of the
Somme - 'Lest we Forget': the symbols interactive experience
(Derry, 2000) and History in Motion: the First Day of
the Somme - Interactive CD Rom (London, 2003). Toby
was the co-editor with Joanna Newman of Holocaust and
the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television
Since 1933 (London, 2005). Over the last few years
he has been conducting research into the links between war-torn
landscapes, memory and film (partly realised in a season
presented in the Museum's cinema); the British memory of
the Second World War in the period 1945-50; and military
re-enactment and 'reality' or 'immersive television' in
the UK. Early work on the last subject was presented at
two conferences, the first at Vanderbilt University in April
2004 and then at the Imperial War Museum in October of the
same year. Most recently he has presented papers on 'Veterans'
Testimony in Historical Documentaries, 1919-2006' and the
public reception of The Battle of the Somme. He also has
a chapter on the filming of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, in Bardgett and Cesarani (eds.) Belsen
1945: New Historical Perspectives (Edgware, 2006).
Philip
Payton is Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies
at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, where he is
also Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies. He was
also (2004-2006) President of the British Australian Studies
Association, and is currently Vice-President. Philip completed
his first doctorate (on ‘The Cornish in South Australia’)
at the University of Adelaide in 1978 and his first book
Pictorial History of Australia’s Little Cornwall
was published in the same year. Subsequently, he has written
extensively on a range of issues – emigration, mining
and maritime history, ethnicity and identity – and
recent books include Cornwall: A History (2nd ed.
2004), The Cornish Overseas: A History of Cornwall’s
Great Emigration (2nd ed. 2005) and a biography A.L.
Rowse and Cornwall: A Paradoxical Patriot (2005). His
latest book, Making Moonta: The Invention of Australia’s
Little Cornwall, is scheduled for publication during
2007. He is also editor of the series Cornish Studies,
published by University of Exeter Press.
Mark
Salber Phillips is an intellectual historian with a particular
interest in questions of narrative and historical representation
in 18th and 19th century Britain. His current work concerns
the idea of “historical distance” and its place
in variety of forms of historical description, ranging from
national histories to literary history and history painting.
He is the author of Society and Sentiment; Genres of
Historical Writing in Britain, 1740-1820 (2000) and
co-editor of Questions of Tradition (2005). Earlier
studies include The Memoir of Marco Parenti; a life
in Medici Florence (1987) and Francesco Guicciardini;
the historian’s craft (1977). He is Professor
of History at Carleton University, Ottawa.
Ruth
B. Phillips is Canada Research Chair and Professor of Art
History at Carleton University, Ottawa. Her fields of research
are the art history of the Aboriginal peoples of northeastern
North America and the history and theory of museums. She
is currently directing the Great Lakes Alliance for the
Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures (GRASAC), a major
international research collaboration which is creating an
innovative multimedia and multivocal digital research resource.
Barbara
Caine is Professor of History and Head of the School of
Historical Studies at Monash University. She is the author
of several collective biographies including Destined
to be Wives: The Sisters of Beatrice Webb ( Oxford
University Press, 1986), Victorian Feminists, (Oxford
University Press, 1992) and most recently Bombay to
Bloomsbury: a biography the Stracheys, c 1850-1950 (Oxford
University Press, 2005). She is currently writing a book
on Biography and History for Palgrave Macmillan.
Patrick
Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History at
the University of Pittsburgh. He is also president of the
World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering
research in world history. A specialist in world history
and African history, his current research addresses global
historiography, early human history, migration in world
history, the African diaspora, and the demography of African
slavery. 
Bernadette
Hince is an independent researcher and writer with degrees
in science and arts. Her PhD (ANU 2005) was an environmental
history of subantarctic islands. She was science editor
of the Australian National Dictionary (1988), co-editor
of the CSIRO handbook of economic plants of Australia (1993)
and author of The Antarctic dictionary (CSIRO/Museum Victoria,
2000), a historical dictionary of Antarctic English. Her
interests include language, the polar regions, history,
food and food plants.
Catriona
Elder is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology
and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Her research
interests include whiteness studies, racism and national
identity and racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australia.
Her book, Being Australian: Narratives of National Identity
(Allen & Unwin, 2007) explores these issues. 
Professor
Susan Mendus studied Classics and Philosophy at the University
of Wales. Her first degree was in Philosophy and, after
graduating, she went to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where
she studied for the B.Phil in Philosophy. On completing
the B.Phil, Susan Mendus moved to York University. Initially,
she held the post of Lecturer in Philosophy but, in the
mid-1980s, she developed a special interest in political
philosophy and became Morrell Fellow in Toleration in the
Politics Department. From 1986 to 1990 Susan Mendus was
Morrell Fellow in Toleration; from 1995 to 2000 she was
Director of the Morrell Centre for the Study of Toleration.
Susan Mendus has been Professor of Political Philosophy
at York since 1996, and a Fellow of the British Academy
since 2004.
Robert Ross (1949) was born in Sidcup, near London, and
went to school in London. After a short period teaching
in Botswana, he studied history in Cambridge, both for a
BA (1970) and a Ph.D. (1974), on the history of the Griquas
in South Africa. Since then he has worked in Leiden in the
Netherlands, on a variety of subjects primarily in the history
of South Africa, in particular the colonial Cape. He has
written a number of books on the subject, and is also editing
the Cambridge History of South Africa, in two volumes, which
will appear in 2007 and 2008. He is also completing a book
entitled Clothing: a global history; or the imperialists’
new clothes, which will also appear in 2007.
Roxana
Waterson is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology, National University of Singapore, where she has
been teaching since 1987. She did her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology
at New Hall, Cambridge (1981), and has done fieldwork with
the Sa'dan Toraja people of Sulawesi (Indonesia) since 1978.
Her publications include The Living House: An Anthropology
of Architecture in Southeast Asia (3rd Edn, Thames
& Hudson, 1997); Southeast Asian Lives: Personal
Narratives and Historical Experience (Singapore/Athens,
Ohio: Singapore University Press/Ohio University Press,
2007); and ‘Trajectories of Memory: Documentary
Film and the Transmission of Testimony’, History
and Anthropology 18/1:51-73 (March 2007). Her ethnographic
monograph on the Sa’dan Toraja, Paths and Rivers:
Sa’dan Toraja Society in Transformation, will
be published by KITLV, Leiden, in 2008. She has been teaching
critical and practical courses on visual ethnography since
2002, and is currently making a video about the now almost
extinct indigenous religion of the Toraja, Aluk To Dolo.
Her other current interests include social memory, life
history and childhood research.