DrJames Findlay

Lecturer in Australian History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

  • Framing the frontier: Australian settler colonialism on Television after 1970.This project will produce new knowledge about the ways the frontier has been imagined on Australian screens, and how television has ascribed meaning to the processes and outcomes of settler colonialism for audiences.

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    4 Pegs in a Box: History of Tent Boxing in Australia and the Cultural significance of Aboriginal fighters int he Tent.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From Moral Gatekeepers to Crime Queens: A Spatial Transformation of Sydney's Red-light districts from 1860 to 1930.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The New Guard’s Paramilitary, Political, and Economic Practices. New Guard Philosophy and Operations during the Political Turmoil of 1931-35