The Department of History can provide supervision of research in the following areas, but this list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. Staff members' interests range widely, and students who wish to work on topics not covered below can possibly be accommodated. Dissertation topics may be discussed by interview with the head of department or graduate studies coordinator.
BAIN ATTWOOD Indigenous history; the history of gender and sexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries; public history; history and theory.
BARBARA CAINE Nineteenth and twentieth-century cultural history, with emphases on Europe and Australia; women's history.
IAN COPLAND British Imperial history, in particular the history of indirect rule in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; comparative colonialism; post-colonialism; modern South Asian history.
IAN CUMMINS Nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian and Soviet history, in particular the national question in Tsarist Russia and the USSR; Marxism and nationalism. (Note: In normal circumstances, students wishing to write a dissertation in Russian history should have, or be willing to acquire, some working knowledge of Russian.)
GRAEME DAVISON Australian urban and social history; the history of sociology in Britain and the United States; heritage and public history.
JANE DRAKARD Southeast Asian history; Indonesian history; Indonesian and Malay cultural history and textual traditions.
DAVID DUNSTAN Australian urban, political, cultural and social history; heritage and public history; Melbourne and Victorian regional history; history of the Australian wine industry.
ESTHER FAYE Twentieth-century Australian history; histories of subjectivity and gender; psychoanalysis and history.
DAVID GARRIOCH European urban history, 1600-1900; social and cultural history of eighteenth- century France; French Revolution.
MICHAEL GODLEY Sino-Southeast Asian relations: in particular, the overseas Chinese; Chinese history; comparative topics in Asian history.
ELEANOR HANCOCK German history in the nineteenth and twentieth century, particularly the interwar period and national socialism; fascism in Britain; aspects of World War I and II.
PETER HOWARD Medieval European history; Renaissance Italy; intellectual history of Christianity.
BILL KENT Italian Renaissance social and cultural history; Florence in the time of Lorenzo de' Medici.
BRUCE KNOX Nineteenth-century British history: political and administrative; British Empire and colonies.
LINCOLN LI Modern Chinese and Japanese history, including Sino-Japanese relations; Dr Li expects students to be fluent, or to acquire fluency, in the languages necessary for their research.
IAN MABBETT Traditional Asian culture; precolonial history of India and Southeast Asia, especially anything connected with Indian religions; the `Indianised' culture of Southeast Asia.
ANDREW MARKUS Australian political and social history from 1850 to the present, particularly racial and ethnic relations. History of racial thought.
CONSTANT MEWS Cultural, religious and intellectual history of Europe, fourth to thirteenth century; social and political change in twelfth-century France.
IAN MYLCHREEST Intellectual, cultural and legal history of the United States.
MARK PEEL Social and cultural history of Australia; history of gender and sexuality; history of work and education; urban history; history of welfare, social justice and disadvantage.
CLAUDIA PRESTEL Modern Jewish history, with particular reference to Germany.
JOHN RICKARD Australian political, social and cultural history from 1880 to the present day; biography.
TONY WOOD The social, intellectual and political history of the United States of America, especially the south, and US foreign relations; also military history.
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