Dr JANET DOUST

BA(Hons) Macquarie University 1975

MA (Hons) University of New South Wales 1989

PhD Australian National University 2004

Research Interests

•  Australian colonial history

•  Comparative cultural and social history of European settler societies

•  Britain and its empire

•  International migration

Current Projects

English Settlers and sojourners in colonial eastern Australia

Ties of kinship and race: ideologies of the Anglo-British world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Publications

'Three Best-Selling Views of the Empire and the Settler Colonies in the Late Nineteenth Century', Andrew Thompson & Kent Fedorowich (eds) [Title to be determined] Manchester University Press (forthcoming)

‘Exploring Gentry Women on the New South Wales Frontier in the 1820s and 1830s', Women's History Review (forthcoming)

‘Two English Immigrant Families in Australia in the 19th Century', History of the Family,13 (2008), pp.2-25.

‘British Literature and Australian Identity, 1880-1960', in Kate-Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsay & Stuart Mcintyre, eds, Exploring the British World: Identity – Cultural Production – Institutions , RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, 2004, pp. 498-513. ISBN 0864593449. Published as an e-book

‘Kinship and Accountability: The Diaries of a Pioneer Pastoralist Family, 1856-1898', History Australia , vol. 2, no. 1 (November 2004), 04-1-04-14

‘Setting Up Boundaries in Colonial Australia: Race and Empire', Australian Historical Studies , no. 123 (April 2004), 152-166

‘Eastern Australia in the World's Migration Streams', Crossings , vol. 7, no. 3 (Dec. 2002), http://asc.uq.edu.au/crossings

Recent Conference Papers

Forthcoming 8-10 September 2008 'Family. Community and Networks in Colonial Australia', Collective Biography Conference, Research School of Humanities, Australian National University  

July 2007 ‘Three Best-Selling Views of the Empire and the Settler Colonies in the Late Nineteenth Century', British World Conference V: Defining the British World, University of Bristol, England

July 2006 ‘Exploring Middle Class Women on the New South Wales Frontier in the 1820s and 1830s', Australian Network for Research in Women's History Conference, Australian National University, ACT, Australia

July 2006 ‘(Post) Colonial Studies and Transnational History', Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Australian National University, ACT, Australia

September 2005 ‘British Women on the Frontiers of Empire in Eastern Australia in the 1820s and 1830s', Mid West Conference on British Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA

August 2005 ‘”Everything is English – purely English – or an imitation of England': English Migrants in Eastern Australia, 1815-1860', David Cannadine Symposium, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

July 2005 ‘British Emigration to Colonial Australia in Context', British World Conference IV: Broadening the British World, University of Auckland, New Zealand

October 2004 ‘Reproduction of British Middle-Class Femininity in Colonial Eastern Australia, 1880-1900', North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA

July 2004 ‘Visions of the Politicians in Search of the Site of the Australian Federal Capital, 1902', Australian Historical Association, Biennial Conference, Newcastle, Australia

July 2004 ‘British Literature and Australian Identity, 1880-1960', British World Conference III, University of Melbourne, Australia