Seamus O'Hanlon - History Department Staff
Position
Senior Lecturer
Phone
61-3-9905 2169
Address
School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Building 11
Monash University Victoria 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal History
I have degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University. I completed my PhD in the School of Historical Studies here at Monash under the supervision of Professor Graeme Davison in 1999 and have been a member of the teaching staff of the School since then.
My first major sole-authored book, Together Apart; boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne, based on my PhD thesis, was short-listed in the Local and Community history category of the NSW Premier's History Awards in 2003. More recently I published Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties , co-edited with Tanja Luckins of the University of Melbourne, which was commended in the Collaborative/Community category of the Victorian Community History Awards in 2007.
Current Research
My research mainly revolves around the impact of economic, social and cultural change in Australia and elsewhere in the contemporary period. Most of my work concentrates on cities, especially inner cities, and the ways in which new forms of work, leisure and cultural practices have affected the ways in which urban spaces have been used and re-used in the Twentieth Century. My most recent book, Melbourne Remade documents the deindustrialisation and reinvention of inner Melbourne since the 1970s, while a series of articles, chapters and conference papers by myself and others resulting from a major ARC-funded project investigating deindustrialisation and urban change in Melbourne and Geelong in the years since the 1970s, have either recently been published, or will be so in late 2010 and 2011.
In recent years I have co-edited two special editions of journals focussing on urban issues and the impact of economic and social change on cities in Australia and Britain. The first, a special edition of the Australian Economic History Review (March 2009), co-edited with Lionel Frost of Monash University, profiled contemporary practice and practitioners in the discipline of urban history in Australia, while the second, a special edition of Urban Policy and Research entitled 'Deindustrialisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city: London and Melbourne, c1960-2008 ' (September 2009), co-edited with Chris Hamnett of Kings College London, grew out of a symposium I organised on this theme at Monash’s Prato Centre in September 2007.
My current research returns to my earlier interests in the emergence of flat and apartment living in cities in the English-speaking world in the twentieth century. A new project is looking at the role of immigrants in changing attitudes to house, home and urban culture in those cities, including a collaborative study investigating the impact of Jewish people on the built form and culture of cities in the former British Empire in the period 1850 to the present. With a number of colleagues at Monash, La Trobe University, the National Library of Australia and ABC Radio, I am also a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage-funded ‘Australian Generations' oral history project that investigates Twentieth Century Australian lives and life experiences.
Major Publications
Books
S. O’Hanlon (with T. Dingle), Melbourne Remade: the inner city since the 70s, Arcade Publications, Melbourne 2010
S. O’Hanlon, Together Apart: boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne, ASP, Melbourne, 2002
Edited Books
S. O’Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005
G. Davison, T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon (eds) The Cream Brick Frontier; Histories of Australian Suburbia, Monash Publications in History, No 19, Melbourne, 1995
Edited Journals
S. O’Hanlon and C. Hamnett (Guest editors), 'Deindustrialisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city: London and Melbourne, c1960-2008', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009
L. Frost and S. O’Hanlon (Guest editors), ‘The Australian City: new essays in urban history’, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009
Book Chapters
S. O’Hanlon, 'From warehouse to your house: production, consumption and the reinvention of inner Melbourne 1906-2000', in R. Crawford, J. Smart and K. Humphery (eds), Consumer Australia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, 2010, pp. 183-195
S. O’Hanlon and T. Luckins, 'Setting the scene: the idea of the Sixties', in S. O’Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005, pp. vii-xxii
S. O’Hanlon, 'Where all the action is man: Youth cultures in 1960s Melbourne', in S. O’Hanlon and T. Luckins (eds), Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 45-57
S. O’Hanlon, 'Cities, suburbs and communities', in M. Lyons and P. Russell (eds), Australia's history: themes and debates, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 172-189
S. O’Hanlon, 'Tenants', in P.Yule (ed), Carlton: A History, MUP, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 111-121
T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon, 'Ten per cent modern? Reshaping Melbourne's suburban homes, 1945-1960', T. Griffiths (ed), People and Place: Australian Heritage Perspectives, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 1996, pp. 25-52
S. O’Hanlon, 'Hearth and Home', in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melbourne, ASP, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 360-362
S. O’Hanlon, 'Home ownership and home improvement', in D. Dunstan (ed), Victorian Icon: the Royal exhibition Building Melbourne, ASP, Melbourne, 1995, pp. 418-421
Refereed Journal Articles
S. O’Hanlon and C. Hamnett, 'Introduction: Deindustrialisation, gentrification and the re-invention of the inner city: London and Melbourne, c1960-2008', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009, pp. 211-216
S. O’Hanlon and S. Sharpe, 'Becoming post-industrial: Victoria Street, Fitzroy, c1970 to now', Urban Policy and Research, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009, pp. 289-300
S. O’Hanlon, 'The Events City: sport, culture and the transformation of inner Melbourne, 1977-2006', Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, Vol XXXVII, No 2 (Spring 2009 printemps), pp. 30-39
L. Frost and S. O’Hanlon, Urban history and the future of Australian cities, Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009, pp. 1-39
T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon, 'From manufacturing zone to lifestyle precinct: economic restructuring and social change in inner Melbourne, 1971-2001', Australian Economic History Review, Vol 49, No 1, March 2009, pp. 51-68
S. O’Hanlon, 'Dwelling together, apart: the Jewish presence in Melbourne's first apartment boom', Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol XIX. No 2, November 2008, pp. 237-247
S. O’Hanlon, 'Full board and lodging: hostels for migrant workers in early postwar Melbourne', History Australia, Vol 2, No. 5, December 2005, pp. 88.1-88.15
S. O’Hanlon, 'Sound of the brogue soon on city trams: Irish immigrants in post-war Melbourne', Australian Journal of Irish Studies, Vol 5, 2005, pp. 36-50
S. O’Hanlon, ''All found', they used to call it: Genteel Boarding Houses in Early Twentieth Century Melbourne', Urban History, 29, 2 September 2002, pp. 239-253
S. O’Hanlon, 'For the Upholding of Womanhood: Melbourne’s Interwar Hostels for "Business Girls"', Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2000, pp. 116-127
S. O’Hanlon, 'Modernism and Prefabrication in Postwar Melbourne', Journal of Australian Studies, No. 57, 1998, pp. 108-118
T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon, 'Modernism versus Domesticity: the contest to shape Melbourne's homes, 1945-1960', in J. Murphy and J. Smart (eds), The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Culture and Society in the 1950s, MUP, Melbourne, 1997 (Special edition of Australian Historical Studies, No. 109. October 1997, pp. 33-48
Refereed Conference Papers
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Six-packs and Villa Units: Flats in Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s', in D. Nichols, A. Hurlimann, C. Monaut and S. Pascoe (eds), Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields: the 10th Australasian Urban History, Planning History Conference, University of Melbourne, 2010 (CD-ROM)
S. O’Hanlon and S. Sharpe, 'Selling lifestyle: marketing Melbourne's inner city apartments c1990-2005', in C.McConville (ed), Seachange: new and renewed urban landscapes, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, 2008 (CD-ROM)
T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon, 'Space for your imagination: de-industrialising and re-imagining inner Melbourne c1970-2000', in C. Miller and M. Roche (eds), Past Matters: Heritage, History and the Environment, Proceedings from the 8th Australasian Urban History/ Planning History Conference, Wellington, NZ, 2006, pp. 401-412
T. Dingle and S. O’Hanlon, 'The inner city transformed: industrial and post-industrial Melbourne in pictures c1970-2005', in B. Gleeson (ed), State of Australian Cities 05: Conference proceedings, Griffith University, Brisbane, 2005 (CD-ROM)
Other
S. O’Hanlon, 'Residential hotels' in P. Goad et al, The Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture, CUP, Melbourne (forthcoming 2011
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Housing: Australia', The Encyclopedia of the World and Its Peoples: Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania, Volume 10, Australia and Antarctica, Marshall Cavendish Corporation: Tarrytown, New York, 2010
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Boarding houses in Melbourne: a twentieth century history', Parity, Vol. 22, Issue 5, June 2009, pp. 10-11
S. O’Hanlon, ‘Acland Street', ‘Balaclava', ‘Boarding and lodging houses', ‘Elwood', ‘Fitzroy Street', ‘Flats', ‘Ripponlea', ‘St Kilda', ‘Smith Street', ‘State Bank Homes' and ‘War Service Homes', in A. Brown-May and S. Swain (eds), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, CUP, Melbourne, 2005
S. O’Hanlon, ‘A standard company design, Para Hills', in S. Marsden (ed), Our House, Australian Heritage Commission e-book, Canberra, 2001 http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/ahc/publications/commission/books/ourhouse/index.html
Areas of Research & Supervision
Nineteenth and twentieth-century Australian and British urban, social and cultural history; youth cultures; immigration history; history of technology; heritage, museums and public history; histories of housing.
Teaching
ATS1326 - Contemporary Worlds 2
ATS2633/ATS3633 - Global cities
ATS2590/ATS3590 - Twentieth-century Britain: rule Britannia to cool Britannia *
APG4299 - History and Heritage *
APG4295 - History and the Museum *
APG4309 - Family History and Genealogy *
APG5787 - Public history research Project
APG5788 - Public history research project Part 1 (12 points)
APG5789 - Public History research project Part 2 (12 points)
APG5797 - Public history placement and APG5795 Public history dissertation