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ProfessorKirsten McKenzie

Chair of Australian History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Chair of Australian History
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Australian history

Summary of opportunity:

Kirsten McKenzie began teaching Australian History in the Department in 2002. She has a BA (Hons) and an MA from the University of Cape Town and completed her DPhil as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1997. She moved to Australia in 1998, taking up a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Queensland and later teaching at the University of New South Wales.

Opportunity synopsis:

Kirsten researches broadly within British imperial history, specifically by connecting British, South African and Australian history in the period 1780 – 1850. She employs the perspectives of cultural history to ask questions about the relationship between identity, social status and political liberties.

Supervision: Topics in Australian history generally, particularly social and cultural history, gender history, and colonial Australia

RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Between the Parlour and the Pub: A Social History of Violin Playing in Australia Over the Long Nineteenth Century
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    From a Breadwinner to a Good and Useful Citizen: The Attitudinal Shift Towards Child Labour in NSW 1850–1916
  • 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
    From Moral Gatekeepers to Crime Queens: A Spatial Transformation of Sydney's Red-light districts from 1860 to 1930.
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Sex work, homosexuality and class composition in nineteenth century Melbourne
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Business of Settlement: Land, Debt, Capital and Colonial Government in New South Wales, 1820-1861
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Colonial Winemakers: Viniculture and Wine Production in the New South Wales Cumberland Plains 1788-1888
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Women and the NSW Railways: 1850-1901