Dr Carolyn Strange

Senior Research Fellow

T: ( 02 ) 6125 0044

F: ( 02 ) 6248 0054
E: carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au

Research School of Humanities
College of Arts and Social Sciences

Qualifications:

PhD (U.S. and women's history) Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, USA (1991)

M.A. (Canadian History) University of Ottawa, Canada (1983)

B.A. hons. (European History) University of Western Ontario, Canada (1981

Short biography:

Carolyn Strange has written widely in the fields of Canadian, U.S. and Australian social and cultural history. She has published and taught in a variety of disciplines, including women’s studies, law, criminology, media studies and historical geography. Her work revolves around two clusters of issues: gender, sexuality, medicine, crime, and punishment; place, memory and identity in modernity.

Her latest book, co-published by the University of Toronto Press and the National Library of Australia, is Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (Alison Bashford, co-author). http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4306346

In the Resarch School of Humanities she convenes the teaching programme for postgraduate research students. She currently co-convenes the RSH Friday Forum.http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/seminars_forum_2008/forum.php

In the College of Arts and Sciences she co-convenes the research theme, "Crossing Cultures and Times." http://cass.anu.edu.au/research_themes/7.php

She is also the co-ordinator of the History@ANU programme of postgraduate research training.

She is an Honorary Associate in History at the University of Sydney and an adjunct Professor of History and Criminology at the University of Toronto. She has been appointed a 2009 International Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick University.

Research Interests:

Carolyn Strange publishes and teaches history with approaches drawn from numerous disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.Her work revolves around two clusters of issues

*gender, sexuality, medicine, crime, and punishment

*place, memory and identity in modernity.

Current Research Projects:

The Walworth Patricide: Family, Violence and Power in 19thC New York (a microhistorical analysis of a murder that sprang from generational and gender conflict in an illustrious family; monograph research underway)

The history of eugenics in Canada (historical overview, commissioned for the World History of Eugenics, Oxford U.P.)

Historicising World History through the work of Griffith Taylor (article under review)

Griffith Taylor: Prophet and Pariah (curator of exhibition for the National Library of Australia and the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, 2008-9)

Selected Publications:

Books and Monographs

2008 Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (University of Toronto Press and National Library of Australia, 200)

2004 True Crime, True North: The Golden Age of Canadian Pulp Magazines (with Tina Loo) (Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004)

Edited volumes

2007 “Pain and Death: Politics, Aesthetics, Legalities,” special issue of Humanities Research, Vol XV 2(2007) pp. 74

2003 Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion (co-edited with Alison Bashford) London: Routledge

Chapters in books

2009  “Eugenics in Canada: a checquered history,” (with Jennifer Stephen) in Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, eds., Eugenics: a World History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009 forthcoming)

2007 "Canadian Pulp Magazines and Second World War Regulations," (with Tina Loo), in Carole Gerson and Jacques Michon eds., History of the Book in Canada / Histoire du Livre et de l'Imprimé au Canada, vol 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007): 255-60 

2006 "Postcard from Plaguetown: Mediating Exoticism in SARS-struck Toronto," in Alison Bashford, ed., Medicine at the Border: Disease, Globalization, and Security, 1850 to the present (London: Palgrave, 2006): 219-39

Journal articles

2007 “Thinking Historically about Public Health,”(co-author Alison Bashford) Medical Humanities, Vol. 33 (December 2007): 87-92

2006 "Hybrid History and the retrial of the Painful Past," Crime, Media and Culture, Vol. 2, no. 2 (August 2006): 197-215

2006 "The ‘Shock’ of Torture: An historiographical Challenge," History Workshop Journal Vol. 61 (Spring 2006):135-52

2006 "Pain and Death: Transnational Perspectives,” Radical History Review, Vol 96 (Fall 2006): 137-50

2003 "Shades of dark tourism at Alcatraz and Robben Island" (with Michael Kempa) Annals of Tourism Research, 30 2: 386-405

2003 "Masculinities and Intimate Femicide in Australia", 1890-1920, British Journal of Criminology, 43 2:310-39

2003 “`Holding the Rock: the Indianization of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999” (Jt. author Tina Loo) The Public Historian, 23 1(Winter 2001): 55-74 [republished in Van Gosse, ed., The World the Sixties Made (Temple University Press, 2003)]

2002 “Asylum Seekers and National Histories of Detention,” (first author Alison Bashford) Australian Journal of Politics and History, 48 4 (2002): 509-27

2002 “From Hewers of Wood to Producers of Pulp: True Crime in Canadian Pulp Magazines of the 1940s,” (Jt. author Tina Loo) Journal of Canadian Studies, 37.2 (Summer 2002): 11-32

2002 “The Half-Life of the Death Penalty: Public Memory in Australia and Canada,” Australian-Canadian Studies, 19 2 (2002): 81-100

2001 “From 'Place of Misery' to 'Lottery of Life': Interpreting Port Arthur's Past,” Open Museum Journal. 2 (2000) http://www.amol.org.au/craft/omjournal/journal_index.asp

2001 “Mercy for Murderers? An Historical Perspective on the Royal Prerogative of Mercy,” Saskatchewan Law Review, 64 2(2001): 559-72

2001 “The Undercurrents of Penal Culture: Punishment of the Body in Mid-20thC Canada” Law and History Review, 19 2 (Summer 2001): 343-85

2000 “Rock Prison of Liberation: Alcatraz Island and the American Imagination” (Jt. Author Tina Loo) Radical History Review 78 (Fall 2000): 27-56

Disciplines:

History, gender studies, criminology, historical geography

Teaching:

In semester 2, 2008, Carolyn Strange will teach "Real Men: Manhood and Identity in Western History"

http://studyat.anu.edu.au/courses/HIST2213;details.html

She also convenes the teaching programme for postgraduate research students.

http://rsh.anu.edu.au/graduate/research.php#first

Conferences:

Carolyn Strange has convened numerous conferences, symposia and workshops. Recent ones include:

Passing: A Multi-discipinary Forum http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2008/passing/index.php

Writing for Newspapers: A Workshop and Masterclass in the Journalist’s Craft http://cass.anu.edu.au/research_themes/7.php#eventspast

Crossing time as Crossing Culture? http://cass.anu.edu.au/research_themes/7.php#eventspast

Places Lost and Found http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/events/2006/places_lostandfound.php

In June 2009 she will convene Violent Ends: Interpreting Life and Death on Earth http://rsh.anu.edu.au/events/2009conferences.php