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Associate ProfessorCindy McCreery

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Modern monarchy and colonialism, including:

  • Monarchy and Colonialism in South Africa c.1860-present: memories of Prince Alfred meeting Moshoeshoe I and Sandile
  • Global royal tours of: Prince Alfred (1867-71), Princes Albert Victor and George (1879-1881), George and Mary (future George V and Queen Mary) (1901) of Great Britain; King Kalakaua (1881) of Hawai'i, King Chulalongkorn (1987, 1907) of Siam and Sultan Abu Bakar (1860s-90s) of Johor

 

  • Object-based learning and teaching (OBTL), including:
  •  OBTL with royal African and Asia-Pacific objects in postcolonial museums: Berlin, London and Sydney
  • OBTL in two postcolonial port cities: reflections on teaching within and beyond museums in Sydney and Mumbai

 

19 and 20c. Naval and maritime history, including:

“Sea change: how the ocean has witnessed and facilitated innovation, new technologies and ontologies in the Mediterranean and Asia-Pacific” 2025 Theme, 'Change and Innovation' Research Cluster, Vere Gordon Childe Centre for the Study of Humanity through Time

  • Royal naval officers, material culture and community in 19 and 20c. overseas British naval bases in the Indian Ocean and Pacific worlds (Simonstown, Zanzibar, Bombay, Trincomalee, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney)

 

Visual and material culture, including:

  • Royal legacies and material culture, including palaces, monuments and royal regalia in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Exchange and display of honours and decorations (e.g. Order of the Garter, Order of the Star of India) by royal figures within as well as beyond the late 19 and early 20c. British empire

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Investigating new strategies for active ageing among diasporas: Working with Tamil communities to tell their stories and investigating Tamil Wikipedia as a platform for cultural resilience, active ageing and the intergenerational transfer of knowledge.
    Office of Global Engagement1 Jan 2022
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    The Environmental Humanities Group
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Giles P,
    • Philp J,
    • Bashford A,
    • McCreery C,
    • Fitzmaurice A
  • GRANT
    Royal Blue: Prince Alfreds world voyages and the marketing of the British empire, 1858-93
    DVC Research1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCreery C
  • GRANT
    English Humour and British Civility: Constructing and Contesting Identity in the British Empire, 1867-70
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2007
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCreery C
  • GRANT
    Moral panics and the law in eighteenth-century England
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCreery C
  • GRANT
    Representatives of old women in wartime Britain, c 1776-1815
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCreery C
  • GRANT
    Maritime Sydney:representations of the city as seaport, 1868-1908
    DVC Research1 Jan 2004
    People funded by this grant:
    • McCreery C