Dr Catherine Earl
Adjunct Research Fellow
| Email: | Catherine.Earl@monash.edu |
Biography
Catherine is a social anthropologist and oral historian. She has lectured and tutored at Monash Gippsland since 2007. Previously teaching in the DoTS Pathway, Catherine has been the recipient of a Gippsland campus award for Team Teaching (2008) and a Special Commendation, Vice Chancellor’s Award for Programs that Enhance Learning (2010).
Research interests
Catherine’s research interests centre on: social change, social mobility and social differentiation in late twentieth and twenty-first century Vietnam and Australia.
Her doctoral project titled Longing and belonging: an ethnographic study of migration, cultural capital and social change among Ho Chi Minh City’s re-emerging middle classes (2008) was based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Vietnam in 2000-2001, 2004 and 2005. Recent research based on fieldwork in Ho Chi Minh City since 2008 focuses on university students, education mobility and social change in post-conflict society.
Recent commissioned oral histories include a history of a Gippsland-based regional community health service and a Melbourne-based ethnic women’s community organization.
Current research projects
- Student Voices in Transition, a teaching-led research project (with Stuart Levy) investigating challenges faced by non-traditional and ‘first-in-family’ students commencing university study in Australia and South Africa
- Urban youth culture in contemporary Vietnam, an ongoing anthropological project centering on youth culture, social space and class mobility in Ho Chi Minh City
Recent publications
Monographs
- Student Voices in Transition: The experiences of pathways students (with Stuart Levy). Johannesburg: Van Schaik, 2011, forthcoming
- Latrobe Community Health Service: Our History, 1973-2010, Morwell, VIC: Latrobe Community Health Service, 2011
- A Home of Many Rooms: Celebrating the Australian Vietnamese Women’s Welfare Association, Richmond, VIC: Australian Vietnamese Women’s Welfare Association and Victoria University, 2008
Peer reviewed journal articles
- ‘Vietnam’s “Informal Public” Spaces: Belonging and Social Distance in Post-Reform Ho Chi Minh City’, Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol.5, No.1, February 2010
- ‘A generation after the war: Welfare issues among Vietnamese refugees in Melbourne, Australia’, Children in War: The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, Vol.1, No.6, January 2010
- ‘Vietnamese Children in War: Women’s Memoirs of Growing Up in the First Indochina War, 1945-1954’, Children in War: The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, Vol.1, No.5, January 2008
Book chapters
- ‘Indochina’s Invisible Victims: Vietnamese women’s memoirs of growing up in the First Indochina War, 1945-1954’ in M. Parsons (ed.), Children: The Invisible Victims of War, Denton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK: DSM, 2008
Recent conference presentations
- ‘Gendering migration, embodying cultural capital and Ho Chi Minh City’s migrant students’, a paper presented at The Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Tenth International Women in Asia Conference. The Australian National University, Canberra, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2010
- ‘Spirit, mind, body: Experiences of post-war settlement and citizenship in Melbourne’s Vietnamese community’, a paper presented at The Vietnam Inheritance: Cultural, social and political legacies of the Vietnam War in Australia - An Interdisciplinary Symposium marking the 35th anniversary of the end of the war. Monash University Caulfield, April 29-30, 2010
- ‘Brain exchanges, cosmopolitanism and mobility among Ho Chi Minh City’s graduates’, a paper presented at Engaging with Vietnam: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Monash University Conference Centre, Melbourne, February 23 -24, 2010
- ‘Preparing Bradley for university and the university for Bradley: Low SES student transition and retention in regional Victoria’ (with Stuart Levy), a paper presented at Monash Transition, Retention and Progression Forum, Monash University Caulfield, Dec 9, 2009
- ‘Virtual Vietnam: Exploring Transformations in Urban Youth Culture Online’, a paper presented at 5th International Conference ‘Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations’, State University of Russia, Moscow, June 23-26, 2009
- ‘Student Voices in Transition’, Student panel and paper presented at Monash Transition Roundtable, Monash University Clayton, Nov 25, 2008
- ‘Cosmopolitan or cultural dissonance? Middle-class encounters with the other’, in A.M. Vicziany and R. Cribb (eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Melbourne, Australia: Is this the Asian Century? Melbourne: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University. Available: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/proceedings.php, 2008
- ‘Cosmopolitan subjectivities through the lens of postsocialist anthropology: Remaking youth culture at Ho Chi Minh City’s Youth Culture Palace’, a paper presented at 2008 SOYUZ Annual Meeting: Contemporary Critical Inquiry Through the Lens of Postsocialism, University of California Berkeley, April 24-27, 2008
Postgraduate supervision
- social change in 20th and 21st century Vietnam
- post-conflict society
- gender, sexuality and culture
- oral history
- social theory
Grants
- Levy, Stuart and Earl, Catherine, Faculty of Arts Teaching Led Research Projects 2009: Student Voices in Transition (Diploma of Tertiary Studies Book Project) - $8,723.36
- Earl, Catherine, Latrobe Community Health Service: Commissioned Oral History of Latrobe Community Health Service - $20,000 + $2,500