Prof. Hilary Carey

Biography

I am a religious and cultural historian. I studied medieval history as an undergraduate at the University of Sydney and as a research student at the University of Oxford. From 1985 to 1990 I taught at Macquarie University and Sydney University, and joined the History Department at the University of Newcastle NSW in 1991. I was Head of the Department of History in 2001 and Assistant Dean (Quality Assurance) in the Faculty of Education and Arts in 2002. From 2005 to 2006 I was Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin. I am currently Ourimbah Director of Research Development for the Faculty of Education and Arts. I have held visiting research appointments at Balliol College Oxford (1988), the University of St Andrews (1996), the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University (2001) and the Medieval Studies Centre, University of York (2009). In 2005 I was made a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. I am President of the Religious History Association and a member of the executive of the Australian Historical Association.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford - UK
• Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney

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Research

Research keywords

• Australian and imperial religious history
• medieval cultural history
• religion and colonialism
• religious history

Research expertise

My research expertise ranges from medieval cultural history to religious history in Australia and the southern British and Irish Worlds. I have a particular interest in religious aspects of settler colonialism. I initially studied astrology at the late medieval English court and university and I remain interested in the long history of astrology as it reflects the encounter of the Latin west with Arabic and Greek learning and society. More recent research has focused on religion and convict society, the colonial missionary movement, church state relations, Aboriginal missions especially missionary linguistics, and Victorian medievalism.

Collaboration

Since 2005, I have led or participated in research projects which have received over $400,000 in external research funding. With Dr David Roberts (University of New England), I am currently funded by the Australian Research Council (2010 - 2012) for a project entitled: 'Liberty, Anti-Transportation and the Empire of Morality'. As part of this grant, I am collaborating with Dr Glen O'Brien (Sydney College of Divinity) and Dr Troy Duncan to write the first national history of Methodism in Australia. With Dr Colin Barr (Ave Maria College, Florida) I am organising a conference on religion and 'Greater Ireland' to be held in Newcastle from 3-4 December 2012. This forms part of the research program on Religion and Political Life led by Dr Timothy Stanley at the University of Newcastle's Humanities Research Institute from 2012 to 2013.

Languages

• Latin

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
220401	Christian Studies (Incl. Biblical Studies And Church History)	55
210303	Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History)	25
210305	British History	20

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Humanities Research Institute

Group

• Group for Religious and Intellectual Traditions

Memberships

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Member - Religious History Association (President)
• Member - Australian Historical Association (Member Executive)

Appointments

Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History University College Dublin (Ireland)	01/01/2005 - 01/12/2006
Life Fellow Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)	01/09/2005
Visiting Professor Centre for Research in Social Inclusion, Macquarie University (Australia)	01/01/2011

Invitations

Russell Ward Lecture University of New England, Australia (Keynote Address)	2010
NSW Premier's Awards for History NSW Premier's Department, Australia (Keynote Address)	2011
17th Irish Australian Studies Conference National Museum of Australia, Australia (Keynote Address)	2011

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Administrative

Administrative expertise

Ourimbah Director Research Development, Faculty of Education and Arts, 2012-

Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts Honours Program Convenor, 2011

History Honours Convenor, School of Humanities and Social Science, 2010-2011

Research Convenor, School of Humanities and Social Science, 2007-2009

Assistant Dean (Quality Assurance), Faculty of Education and Arts, 2002

Head, Department of History, 2001

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Teaching

Teaching keywords

• historiography
• medieval history
• religious history

Teaching expertise

I teach courses in medieval history, historical theory and method, Australian and British colonial history, and religious history. At different times I offer:

HIST1050 Medieval and Early Modern Europe (available in 2012)

HIST3005 Millennium

HIST3059 Writing the Past: Controversies in the Writing of History (available in 2012)

HIST3630 Chivalric Society (available in 2012)

HIST4050 History Honours I (Theory and Method of History) (available in 2012)

HIST6001 Writing History (available in 2012)