History, Archaeology and Geography Research

Professor Peter Monteath

Modern European and Australian history, German history, Prisoners of War.

Matthew Flinders Professor Penny Edmonds

Australian colonial history, empire, humanitarianism, reconciliation, critical theory and gender.

Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick

European history, German history, colonial and imperial history.

Dr James Kane

Middle Ages, history of the crusades, medieval historiography, and the literature and languages of medieval western Europe. 

Associate Professor Catherine Kevin

Australian history and feminist history, particularly gendered violence, the politics and experience of the reproductive body and Indigenous-settler relations.

Professor Andrekos Varnava

Imperial and colonial histories, the histories of war and conflict, and the histories of migration and migrant control. 

Dr Romain Fathi

First World War, Commemorations, Corpses, Humanitarianism, Red Cross, Australian and European History.

Dr Prudence Flowers

Social movement activism, modern conservatism, medicine and public health, and the politics of gender, sexuality, the body, abortion and family planning, modern US and Australian history.

Dr Alessandro Antonello

Environmental and international histories of Antarctica, the cryosphere, and the world’s oceans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, histories of seagrass and other nearshore, intertidal and subtidal environments.

Dr Evan Smith

British and Australian history, immigration politics and history, Marxism, race relations, riots and activism.

Dr Micaela Pattison

Scientific, economic, and ideological 'creations' of modern femininity in the interwar, ways that shifting definitions of age categories and 'healthiness' shaped gender discourse, women's activism and gendered experiences of urban life in the interwar.

Associate Professor Wendy van Duivenvoorde

Maritime trade and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean and Northern Europe, late 16th and early 17th-century Dutch shipbuilding, ships of exploration and Indiamen, ship's fastenings and anchors. 

Professor Heather Burke

Construction and negotiation of class and status through material culture, the archaeology of cross-cultural engagement and the links between cultural heritage, memory and past and present social identity, the 'frontier' and its social and material effects, particularly the archaeology of frontier conflict in Queensland.

Professor Claire Smith

Symbolic communication, decolonisation and Indigenous knowledges.

Professor Jonathan Benjamin

Archaeology; submerged landscapes; coastal and maritime archaeology; impacts of sea-level changes on past human societies; aerial archaeology; 3D recording and interpretation for archaeology; Mesolithic-Neolithic transition; scientific diving.

Associate Professor Alice Gorman

Archaeology and cultural heritage management of space exploration, focusing on orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and tracking stations.

Associate Professor Ian Moffat

Archaeological geophysics, isotope geochemistry, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, geoarchaeology, site formation processes.

Associate Professor Mike Morley

Archaeological site formation processes and the reconstruction of palaeoenvironments at various scales through the study of site micro- and macro-stratigraphy, geological sequences and geomorphological landforms.

Associate Professor Liam M. Brady

Rock art, material culture, social networks, maritime specialisation in island and coastal contexts, decolonising archaeological practice in Indigenous contexts, prominent places as beacons to structure people's movements, encounters and connections.

Associate Professor Martin Polkinghorne

Archaeology of Southeast Asia, Angkor, archaeometry, archaeology of the early modern period, politcal economy and archaeology.

Professor Amy Roberts

Archaeology and anthropology of Indigenous Australia, Yorke Peninsula, River Murray and Mallee; rock art; the relationship between archaeology and Indigenous peoples as well as anthropology; archaeological science.

Dr John McCarthy

Digital 3D techniques for maritime archaeology; new avenues of research made possible by digital surveys of shipwrecks, including the creation of digital 3D libraries for historic vessels, and on new modes of research dissemination and engagement, including virtual dive experiences

Dr Daryl Wesley

Indigenous and historical archaeological studies in Australia; archaeology of culture contact between South East Asians, Europeans and Aboriginal people in remote north-western Arnhem Land through hybrid economies; rock art of Arnhem Land.

Associate Professor Udoy Saikia

Population dynamics, human wellbeing and sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific region.

Professor Beverley Clarke

Coastal climate adaptation, coastal management, community engagement in environmental management, marine protected area management, natural resource management and coasts, environmental impact assessment, policy evaluation.

Professor Susanne Schech

Critical development studies (esp. development volunteering, culture and social change, gender and development, poverty reduction policy making); social and cultural geographies of migration, ethnicity and race (esp. refugee and migrant settlement, constructions of racial and ethnic identities).

Dr Gareth Butler

Sustainable tourism development, community engagement, tourism mobilities, tourism & migration, socio-cultural impacts of tourism, independent travel, national parks.