Faculty Member, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Associate Professor of History
About
I have published widely as both an urban historian with a particular interest in public space and transnational municipal networks, as well as a historian of cultural contact, missionaries and exchange in setter-colonial and other imperial contexts. My next book 'Welsh missionaries and British imperialism: The empire of clouds in north-east India' is to be published in 2012 by Manchester University Press (Studies in Imperialism).
I was director of the Encyclopedia of Melbourne project, and guided development of this publication from the mid 1990s to its publication by Cambridge University Press in 2005. My first book, 'Melbourne Street Life' (Australian Scholarly Press, 1998) was a social history of Melbourne’s nineteenth-century streets that explored aspects of public culture, from street processions and other public rituals, to the role and activities of street hawkers, bootblacks and newsboys. I have also published a number of other histories of city culture and space, including 'Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories' (2001), which explored the origins of Melbourne’s postwar espresso boom; and 'Federation Square' (with Norman Day, 2003). More recently, with Pat Grimshaw I edited 'Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange' (Sussex Academic Press, 2010).
My interest in digital history has also seen me involved in the development of history in new media formats, including Melbourne Podtours (http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/03/28/2201932.htm), eGold (http://www.egold.net.au), Pathways to the Past (a learning module on using images as historical evidence; http://history.unimelb.edu.au/p2p), and eMelbourne (the Encyclopedia of Melbourne in online format: www.emelbourne.net.au).
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