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ProfessorMichael McDonnell

Professor of History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

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  • Professor of History
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research projects & supervision summary

Project Opportunities

Title: Early and Revolutionary America

Summary of opportunity:

After completing my BA in History and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, in Canada, I returned to Britain to do a DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford, where I also taught briefly and served as Junior Dean. I then taught at the University of Wales, Swansea before taking up a new post in Atlantic History at the University of Sydney, in 2004. I am currently working on several major research projects, including an exploration of comparative Indigenous experiences of empire in a Revolutionary Age (with Kate Fullagar, Macquarie University), an examination of the place of the American Revolution in Black American life (with Clare Corbould, Monash University, and W. Fitzhugh Brundage, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), and a study of Revolutionary War memoirs written by lower-class veterans of the conflict.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

  • Early and Revolutionary America
  • American Revolution and Memory
  • Native Americans in North America
  • Comparative Indigenous Studies
  • Cultural intermediaries and brokers
  • Social history of the early Atlantic

 


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RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    "To Guard a base ungrateful shore": The British Navy in the Public Sphere, 1688-1742
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    'The Blacks Are Also Human': Africans and African Caribbeans and the Abolition of the Danish Slave Trade: 1732-1804
  • 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
    Building Black Memphis: Everyday Life in a Jim Crow City
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Lost, Scattered, Silenced and Hidden Memories: healing from national myths of whiteness to (re)connect and (re)emerge our invisibilised Indigenous and Afro- ancestors and knowledges
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Remembering, recording and memorialising: Descendant stories
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Shifting Power and Ownership in Practice through Aboriginal Community-Led Research
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Southern Sri Lanka's Student Movement 1987 - 1991
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Stealing the Turtle's Voice: A Dual History of Western and Algonquian-Iroquoian Soundways from Creation to Re-creation
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The "miserable Virginia country town" that became the workshop of the world, Conflict, consensus and contingency in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1769 - 1900
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The Press for Equality: Women Journalists, Grassroots Activism, and the Feminist Fight for American Media
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    What are the intergenerational impacts of government-issued blankets on Aboriginal Communities
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Your petitioners therefore humbly pray: The institutional reception of petitions from First Nations people by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia