The Australian National University
History Program, RSSS
Email history@coombs.anu.edu.au
document location: http://histrsss.anu.edu.au/academicstaff.php
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Academic Staff

Professor Ann McGrath, FASSA OAM
Professor and Head
Director, Australian Centre for Indigenous History
Ph: 61 2 612 54850
Email: mcgrath@coombs.anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Gender and Colonialsim; Australian indigenous history; Comparative and trans-national history of frontiers in Australia and North America; Birth, Marriage and intermarriage; Law, Justice and History; Museums, Museology and Public History; Art and Visual Evidence in History
Dr Nicholas Brown
Senior Fellow
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 3052
Email: nicholas.brown@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Australian twentieth century cultural, political and environmental history, Australian biography
Professor Desley Deacon
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 52356
Email: deacon@coombs.anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Gender, feminism, and modernity; modernism; biography, history and sociology of the culture of social science; American and Australian societies and cultures in comparative perspective
Professor Tom Griffiths
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 53345
Email: tom.griffiths@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest:: Australian cultural and environmental history; the comparative environmental history of settler societies; the history of Antarctica
Professor Barry Higman
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 52348
Email: Barry.Higman@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Historical geography and historical demography, with particular reference to Australia and the West Indies
Professor Pat Jalland
Professor of History
Ph: 61 2 612 53054
Email: jalland@coombs.anu.edu.au
Areas of interest:History of women in Britain and Australia; social, cultural and medical history of death, grief and mourning in Australia
Dr Shino Konishi
Research Fellow
Ph: 6125 0157
Email:shino.konishi@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: History of maritime exploration of Australia and the Pacific; first contact narratives; histories of race, the body and masculinity; and 18th century studies
Professor Melanie Nolan
Director
National Centre for Biography
General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography
Ph: 61 2 6125 2131
Email: melanie.nolan@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Labour history and gender history; generations, gender and professional work in twentieth-century Australasia; Australian and New Zealand biography
Professor Peter Read
Editor, Aboriginal History Journal
Ph: 6125 4685
Email: Peter.Read@anu.edu.au
Areas of interest: Indigenous history
Em Prof Barry Smith
Fellow
Ph: 61 2 612 52358
Email: barrys@coombs.anu.edu.au

Dr Gordon Briscoe
Visiting Fellow
Email: gbriscoe@coombs.anu.edu.au

Adjuncts

Dr Peter Stanley, National Museum of Australia

Dr Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia

Dr Jacqui Huggins, FAHA, University of Queensland

Professor Tim Rowse, University of Sydney

Professor Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney

Emeritus Professors

Ken Inglis

Barry Smith