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History ProgramResearch School of Social Sciences
Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA |
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Lawrence Niewójt
An Environmental History of the Otway Region, Victoria
Supervisor: Professor Tom Griffiths
Area of Research Interest:
Historical geography of Australia, coastal management and tourism, regional landscape change, the history of geographic thought
Education Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University , 2005—
Master of Arts, University of Toronto , 2004
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Toronto , 2002
Research Publications
Electronic link to this article: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol5no2_2006/niewojt_cerwonka.htm
Book Reviews Review of Campfies at the Cross: an account of the Bunting Dale Aboriginal Mission at Birregurra, near colac, Victoria 1839-1851, by Heather Le Griffon (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006) for Aboriginal History. Review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 2: Geography, edited by Richard Pillsbury (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) for Material Culture. Review of Places of Last Resort: the expansion of the farm frontier into the boreal forest in Canada, c.1910-1940, by J. David Wood (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006) for Ontario History. Review of Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin American Centro Historico, by Joseph L. Scarpaci (University of Arizona Press, 2005) for Material Culture.
Conference Papers and Public Presentations • "Settling and struggling in the Otway Range: land occupation and abandonment on the late colonial frontier" conference paper presented at the Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference in Melbourne, Australia, July 2008. • "Lessons from the Otway Range: context for modern planning and policy initiatives" presentation to be given at The Future of the Past: A Symposium on Environmental and Forest History, Fenner School of Environnment and Society, Australian National University, May 2008. • "Regional environmental history: comparative approaches in Canada and Australia", presented at the Comparative Environment History Colloquium convened by Dr Jane Carruthers (University of South Africa) at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, September 2007. • “The Otway region (Victoria) in the age of the fire-stick”, paper presented at the Seventh Conference of the Australian Forest History Society in Christchurch, New Zealand, January 2007. • “An Environmental History of the Otway Region” paper presented at the National Environmental History PhD Workshop in Canberra, Australia, October 2006. • “Explorers, artists and popular visions of the Otway Range before European settlement”, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Environmental History in St. Paul , Minnesota , March 2006. Awards and Scholarships • 2008 Vice Chancellor's Travel Grant, Australian National University
• 2006 American Society for Environmental History Travel Grant • 2005 Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship received upon entry to PhD programme in History (RSSS), Australian National University • 2002 University of Toronto Fellowship received upon entry to MA programme in Geography • 2001 Regents In-Course Scholarship from Victoria College , University of Toronto , for academic performance in third year of undergraduate study Employment History Research Assistant for Professor B.W. Higman, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2007-2008 Research Assistant for Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, 2006-2007 Research Assistant for Professor S. Beckert, Department of History, Harvard University, 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 2002-2003 Technical Manager, University of Toronto/Alcon Surgical Teaching and Research Laboratory, Department of Opthalmology, University of Toronto, 2001-2003 Teaching Experience Employed as teaching assistant in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, on three separate contracts during 2002-2003:
At the University of Toronto, my duties as a teaching assistant included: leading tutorial sessions for groups of 5-20 students (number stipulated in contract), the assessment of student essays, attending to student enquiries through e-mail communication and in person during set office hours, and invigilating student examinations. Professional Affiliations • Member, American Society for Environmental History • Member, Forest History Society • Member, Royal Geographical Society of New South Wales • Member, Australian Historical Association • Member, Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand |
