PHD STUDENT INFORMATION

 

The History Program has a reputation of being a great place to conduct research with an enthusiastic team of academics and students to welcome all students to the program.

History postgraduate students are an important part of our Program and we have a high degree of staff and student interaction covering a wide range of interests and innovative research projects. Supervisors and advisers encourage regular access to provide a productive and highly individualised learning environment.

History can offer students a stimulating and accessible academic environment, regular seminars and workshops, a small library of relevant journals, as well as access to a shared room with phone and a computer with internet access, access to libraries on campus, access to a photocopier and fax machine and access to the academic community of the ANU. We also have some funding available to cover fieldwork costs during your candidature.

For further information on how to become a PhD student please contact Professor Tom Griffiths, History Graduate Coordinator, or send an email to Tom.Griffiths@anu.edu.au.

 

ACADEMIC STAFF INTERESTS/SUPERVISION

Below is a list of history staff and their primary research interests as a guide to students seeking supervision.

Dr Nicholas Brown
Australian twentieth century cultural, political and environmental history, and Australian biography

Professor Desley Deacon
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
Australian cultural and environmental history; the comparative environmental history of settler societies; the history of Antarctica

Professor Barry Higman
Historical geography and historical demography, with particular reference to Australia and the West Indies

Professor Pat Jalland
The history of women in Britain and Australia; social, cultural and medical history of death, grief and mourning in Australia

Dr Shino Konishi
The history of maritime exploration of Australia and the Pacific; first contact narratives; histories of race, the body and masculinity; and 18th century studies

Professor Ann McGrath
Gender and Colonialism; 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

Professor Melanie Nolan
Labour history and gender history; generations, gender and professional work in twentieth-century Australasia; Australian and New Zealand Biography

 

Additional Resources

History Student Support Paper

Story by Previous Student

Study@anu

College of Arts and Social Sciences student pages

Additional Funding: Hokari Scholarship, Graduate Scholarships