About the Institute for Public History
- Introduction
- Institute Background
- Institute Staff
- Advisory Board
Staff Information
Position
Director Institute for Public History
Alistair.Thomson@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone
61- 3- 9905 9785
Address
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Victoria, 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal Biography
I completed my first degree in Arts at Melbourne University in 1982, and then an MA and DPhil in History at the University of Sussex. In England I was active in the community history and oral history movements, and taught for 16 years at the University of Sussex where I became Professor of Oral History, Director of the Centre for Life History Research and a Trustee of the Mass-Observation Archive. Between 1991 and 2007 I co-edited Oral History, the journal of the Oral History Society of Great Britain, and I am currently President of the International Oral History Association www.ioha.fgv.br . After more than two decades in England, in 2007 I returned to Melbourne and a post at Monash University. Hear Al talk about this 'Moving Stories' project in this talk on 19 June 2008 at the National Museum of Australia - on the NMA website at www.nma.gov.au/audio/historical_interpretation_series/alistair_thomson/
Staff Information
Position
Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor
Graeme.Davison@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone
61- 3- 9905 2191
Address
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Victoria, 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal Biography
Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, where he was Visiting professor of Australian Studies, and at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities and an adjunct professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His main interest is in the history of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time and Car Wars: How The Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered our Cities and an editor of Australians 1888 and the Oxford Companion to Australian History. He has been active as an advisor to heritage bodies, museums and in other fields of public history where his publications include A Heritage Handbook and The Use and Abuse of Australian History. His current projects include a collaborative history of the Powerhouse Museum and a history of suburban Australia.
Monash Publications
The Cream Brick Frontier: Histories of Australian Suburbia Edited by Graeme Davison, Tony Dingle and Seamus O'Hanlon
Out of Work Again: The Autobiographical Narrative of Thomas Dobeson, 1885-1891 By Graeme Davison and Shirley Constantine
Other Recent Publications
Research and Areas of Supervision
Australian urban and social history; the history of sociology in Britain and the United States; heritage and public history
Staff Information
Position
seamus.ohanlon@arts.monash.edu.au
Phone
61- 3- 9905 52169
Address
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Victoria, 3800
Australia
Location
6th Floor, Menzies Building
Personal Biography
Seamus O'Hanlon is a graduate of Melbourne and Monash Universities. He is the author of "Together Apart: boarding house, hostel and flat life in prewar Melbourne", Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2002, and co-editor of "Go!: Melbourne in the Sixties", to be published by Circa in 2004. His major research interests focus on Australian and British urban and social history, especially the history of non-traditional dwelling forms. He is also curently working on a history of postwar Irish immigration to Australia.
Seamus co-ordinates the Master of Public History, and is the overall co-ordinator of the Contemporary Worlds units taught at Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Malaysia and South Africa. He is also the co-ordinator of the major in International Studies.
Monash Publications
The Cream Brick Frontier: Histories of Australian Suburbia Edited by Graeme Davison, Tony Dingle and Seamus O'Hanlon
