
Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science (History)
- Email:nancy.cushing@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:(02) 4348 4055
Meaty matters
Dr Nancy Cushing is an environmental historian who is examining the underlying beliefs and aims that led, by the end of the colonial period, to a typical Australian diet based around the heavy consumption of beef and mutton.
"One of the selling points of coming to Australia during the colonial period to people in Britain was having meat three times a day," explains Cushing.
"Australians in that period ate more meat than almost any other country on earth per capita. The only one that was ahead of Australia was Argentina. But, if you look at similar places, culturally, such as Britain, they were maybe eating a quarter of the amount Australians did."
Cushing says being a vegetarian and an environmentalist made her start to think about the choices that are made around the eating of meat – which has an impact on our fellow animals, and uses enormous amounts of land and crops that could be used for direct consumption and water.
"I also read about the kangaroo cull – the hunting of kangaroos in Australia is the largest hunt of land-based mammals in the world. Every year, millions of kangaroos are killed," said Cushing.
"In Victoria, there is currently a two-year trial of selling the culled kangaroos as pet food. Until this year, the legislation said that the dead animals had to be buried. In other parts of mainland Australia, those animals are collected, put into chiller containers, butchered and the meat is used. Most of it goes for pet food.
"A lot of the kangaroo meat is exported. So it is acceptable in other markets, in some cases as a cheap filler meat for sausages, in others as a gourmet game meat. Until recently, a lot of it went to Russia, as well as all over Europe, and an increasing market is in China.
"Some kangaroo is consumed by people in Australia – but it's extremely low amounts.
"One of my aims for this project is to go back to the past and say: 'Was there a time when Australian's quite happily ate kangaroo and how did that play out. Who was eating it, how were they preparing it, what did people think of it, and – as it faded away – when and why?'
"There are lots of accounts from the colonial period of how much people enjoyed kangaroo meat, that it was very tasty, it was a luscious meat, it created a lovely gravy – so very positive accounts of eating kangaroo.
"The question is then: when we have beef in feed lots, emitting methane as they digest their food and requiring huge amounts of water, why are we not eating the meat we have here and reducing our environmental footprint?"
Cushing says she is looking to test her idea that an anti-kangaroo push developed during the colonial period, because there were vested interests in establishing sheep and cattle.
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"The supply of provisions within the colony was the first industry that was established here; the first thing that created wealth and power," said Cushing.
"I think, potentially, there was a campaign against eating kangaroo, and we can see that in Tasmania, for example, where the government regulated the ownership of kangaroo hunting dogs.
"As long as people can live outside of the cash economy – eating bush meat and gathering and so on – they're independent of the state and of the whole economic system."
Cushing's project, which is supported by a Merewether Scholarship from the State Library of New South Wales, is the first step in a larger undertaking, in which she hopes to extend her research up to the present, looking at Australians' preference for a narrow range of meats and suggesting that a more diverse diet could be healthier for individuals and the planet.
"If I can influence the debate around modern meat eating choices, even a very small amount, I would like to try to do that – to bring up the possibility of eating more kangaroo," she said.
"There are people in Australia who are 'kangatarian' – who will only eat kangaroo meat, because it's not farmed. They haven't been bred, they haven't been kept in captivity, it's just one shot and that's their only interaction with people – so they see eating kangaroo as an ethical choice.
"However, the conditions under which kangaroos are killed are debated as inhumane, that the way the meat is handled may be unhealthy, and that they may have parasites.
"So I'm not saying that this is a perfect solution, but I think it's something we should think about as part of a bigger picture; about how we are interacting with other animals."
Meaty matters
Dr Nancy Cushing is an environmental historian who is examining the underlying beliefs and aims that led, by the end of the colonial period...
Career Summary
Biography
Dr Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor in Australian history in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle. Her primary research area is Australian environmental history, in particular human animal relations, with a secondary interest in the history of Newcastle.
Cushing brings an immigrant's perspective to the Australian past seeking to understand why and how particular cultural forms emerged. In these investigations, she is most interested in the relationship between non-Indigenous Australians and the natural environment. Her current project, supported by a Merewether Scholarship from the State Library of NSW, examines choices about meat eating in colonial Australia from a human animal relations perspective. Past projects have included work on Australian beach cultures, the fight against air pollution in Newcastle and the range of relations between humans and other animals in Australia, from pet keeping to captive animal displays. In 2018, she co authored, with Jodi Frawley, Animals Count: How population size matters in Animal-Human Relations (Routledge).
Her 2010 book, coauthored with Kevin Markwell, Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park, traced the life and work of early celebrity naturalist Eric Worrell, placing his own adventures in the context of contemporary attitudes towards Australian wildlife, especially the generally disparaged reptiles. The book charts important shifts in the second half of the twentieth century as the status of Australian native animals was transformed from curiosity or unwanted pest to icon.
Another research strand is the history of Newcastle. Curiosity about the gulf between her own experience of Newcastle as a pleasant beachside city and the prevailing national stereotype of it as heavily polluted and relentlessly industrial inspired Cushing's 1995 thesis "Creating the Coalopolis: Perceptions of Newcastle 1770 - 1935." Ongoing interest in the history of Newcastle has led to projects on beaches and surf lifesaving, including a chapter in the centenary history of surf life saving, and a book, co authored with Howard Bridgman, on air pollution in Newcastle entitled Smoky City: A History of Air Pollution in Newcastle, NSW (2015). Cushing is a founder with Julie MacIntyre of the Global Newcastle research group and co-editor, with James Bennett and Erik Eklund, of the collection Radical Newcastle, published by New South Press in 2015.
Nancy Cushing is Assistant Dean Research Training for the Faculty of Education and Arts, having previously served as Head of the History Discipline, Program Convenor of the Bachelor of Arts and BA (Hons) from 2012 to 2015 and supported students as Deputy Dean of Students for the Ourimbah and Sydney Campuses from 2008 to 2011. She is a member of the NSW Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and of the Executive of the NSW History Council and the Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network.
Research Expertise
My field is Australian environmental history, in particular human animal relations. My PhD treated the history of Newcastle and I maintain an interest in local and urban history expressed in ongoing research into the history of air quality in the city undertaken with Assoc. Professor Howard Bridgman; and co editorship with James Bennett and Erik Eklund (Federation University) of the Radical Newcastle collection, published in 2015. I have co written a number of pieces on human animal relations with Associate Professor Kevin Markwell of Southern Cross University including our 2010 book, Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park (UNSW Press). Currently, my main project brings together interests in human animal relations and food studies by examining choices around meat eating in colonial Australia.
I have supervised a number of theses at the Masters and Doctoral level in the areas of heritage, industrial, women's and local history. Full titles of current and past supervisions are available under the "Supervision" tab.
Teaching Expertise
My teaching is in the area of Australian cultural and environmental history, including histories of crime and women's history. I enjoy the challenge of helping to introduce up to 600 first year students to the fascinating history of Australia each year in HIST1051, the Australian Experience. At upper level, I offer a number of courses which reflect my own research interests, environmental history, crime and history and heritage. For honours studies, I provide a special study on using the journals kept by members of the First Fleet.
Collaborations
I have engaged in a number of collaborative projects across my areas of research interest. I have had a long and fruitful research association with Assoc. Professor Kevin Markwell of Southern Cross University which has produced a series of articles and one book: Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park (UNSW Press, 2010). Working with thirty present and former colleagues and others, I co edited a collection on Radical Newcastle, with James Bennett and Professor Erik Eklund of Federation University. Another project is a special issue of the Journal of Australian Colonial History on Newcastle and the Hunter Region, co edited with Drs Julie Macintyre and David Roberts of UNE, in which I co wrote an article with former PhD student Ann Hardy. I worked closely with co editor Jodi Frawley and our authors on Animals Count. Planning underway for a collaborative ARC Linkage project on Global Newcastle, with colleagues and community organisations.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours)(History), Dalhousie University - Canada
- Master of Museum Studies, University of Toronto
Keywords
- Air Pollution
- Australian cultural history
- Environmental History
- Food studies
- Heritage studies
- Human/Animal Relations
- Newcastle
- Urban history
Fields of Research
Code | Description | Percentage |
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210303 | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | 80 |
210399 | Historical Studies not elsewhere classified | 20 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2000 - 1/12/2010 |
Lecturer History |
University of Newcastle School of Humanities and Social Science Australia |
1/6/1995 - 1/12/1999 | Associate Lecturer | University of Newcastle Faculty of the Central Coast- History Australia |
1/1/2011 - | Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle School of Education and Arts Australia |
1/9/2003 - 1/12/2005 | Editor of Exhibition Reviews | History Australia Australia |
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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Member - Australian Dictionary of Biography NSW Working Party | Australian Dictionary of Biography Australia |
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Member - Australian Historical Association | Australian Historical Association Australia |
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1/3/2019 - 31/12/2020 | Vice President of NSW History Council | NSW History Council Australia |
1/1/2017 - 31/12/2018 | Convenor | Australian and New Zealand Environmental History Network Australia |
Invitations
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2008 |
The Voyage of the Platypus, 1947: The Role of the Naturalist in International Diplomacy Cushing, Nancy and Kevin Markwell, The Voyage of the Platypus, 1947: The Role of the Naturalist in International Diplomacy, Australian Historical Association Conference, Melbourne, July 2008. |
2006 |
The Song of the Snake: Eric Worrell and the Environmental Sensibilities of the 1950s Organisation: Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference Description: The Song of the Snake: Eric Worrell and the Environmental Sensibilities of the 1950s, Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Canberra, July 2006. |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (4 outputs)
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2018 | Cushing N, Frawley J, Animals Count How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations, Routledge, 210 (2018) | ||||
2015 |
Bennett JE, Cushing N, Eklund E, Radical Newcastle: Unearthing the radical past and present of Newcastle and the Hunter Region, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, xxi, 333 (2015) [A3]
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2015 | Cushing NE, Bridgman H, Smoky City: A History of Air Pollution in Newcastle, NSW, Hunter Press, Newcastle, vi, 142 pages (2015) [A2] | ||||
2010 | Markwell K, Cushing NE, Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 240 (2010) [A1] | ||||
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Chapter (17 outputs)
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2018 |
Cushing N, Kilmister M, Scott N, 'No Vacancy: History and meaning of contemporary ruins in a regional Australian city', Ruin Porn and the Obsession with Decay, Palgrave Macmillan (Springer International Publishing AG), Cham, Switzerland 155-179 (2018) [B1]
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2018 | Cushing N, Frawley J, 'Why count animals?', Animals count: How population size matters in animal-human relations, Routledge, Oxon 13-22 (2018) [B1] | |||||||
2018 | Cushing NE, '"Cunning, intractable, destructive animals": Pigs as co colonisers in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1840 - 1860', Animals Count, Routledge, Oxford 113-125 (2018) [B1] | |||||||
2018 | Cushing N, Frawley J, 'Why count animals?', Animals count: How population size matters in animal-human relations, Routledge, Oxon 13-22 (2018) [B1] | |||||||
2018 | Cushing NE, '"Cunning, intractable, destructive animals": Pigs as co colonisers in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, 1840 - 1860', Animals Count, Routledge, Oxford 113-125 (2018) [B1] | |||||||
2016 | Cushing NE, 'Spit Swimmers and their Costumes', Swimming with the Spit: 100 Years of the Spit Amateur Swimming Club, New South Press, Sydney 79-100 (2016) [B1] | |||||||
2015 |
Cushing NE, Eklund E, Bennett J, 'Introduction', Radical Newcastle, NewSouth, Sydney 1-14 (2015) [B1]
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2014 |
Cushing N, Quinn K, McMillen C, 'University of newcastle: Recasting the city of newcastle as a univer-city - the journey from olde newcastle-upon-tyne to the new silk road', Univer-Cities: Strategic View of the Future from Berkeley and Cambridge to Singapore and Rising Asia 93-118 (2014) [B1]
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2013 | Cushing NE, Markwell K, 'From Snake Handlers to Wildlife Entrepreneurs', Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery, Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 57-63 (2013) [B1] | |||||||
2013 | Cushing NE, Markwell K, 'Snakes in the Twentieth-century Australian Imagination', Venom: Fear, Fascination and Discovery, Medical History Museum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 51-56 (2013) [B1] | |||||||
2011 |
Cushing NE, Markwell K, 'I can't look: Disgust as a factor in the zoo experience', Zoos and Tourism: Conservation, Education, Entertainment?, Channel View Publications, Bristol, UK 167-178 (2011) [B1]
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2011 | Cushing NE, 'Rosie's Secret', Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, I. B. Tauris, London 275-279 (2011) [B2] | |||||||
2008 | Clark J, Cushing NE, Oakley R, 'Competing voices on the road: Seeking pleasure and representing death on the Pacific Highway', Shop till you Drop: Essays on Consuming and Dying in Australia, Southern Highlands Publishers, Normanhurst, New South Wales 106-121 (2008) [B1] | |||||||
2006 | Cushing NE, Huntsman L, 'A National Icon: Surf lifesaving and Australian society and culture', Between the Flags: one hundred summers of Australian surf lifesaving, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 1-21 (2006) [B1] | |||||||
2002 | Cushing NE, 'The Pacific Highway and Australian Modernity', Departures: how Australia reinvents itself, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 44-51 (2002) [B1] | |||||||
1998 | Cushing NE, 'Our History Our Valley', Riverchange, Newcastle Region Public Library, Newcastle 3-36 (1998) [B1] | |||||||
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Journal article (27 outputs)
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2020 |
Cushing N, 'Counting the food miles of sugar in early colonial Australia', Food and Foodways, 28 195-214 (2020) [C1] © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Food miles is a concept developed in the 1990s as a critique of the negative social and environmental consequences of transporting foods ... [more] © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Food miles is a concept developed in the 1990s as a critique of the negative social and environmental consequences of transporting foods over very long distances. While intended to draw attention to a contemporary problem, the movement of food has a long history to which the concept of food miles can be usefully applied. Drawing upon government correspondence, statistics and personal journals, this article investigates the significance of food miles in establishing the colony of New South Wales, Australia, between 1788 and 1800, with a particular emphasis on sugar. While the some of the issues noted at the end of the twentieth century were present, other factors, such as the high costs of transport, associated waste, and food security were of greater concern to those provisioning the colony and led them to seek to reduce food miles by purchasing supplies in the region. However, other priorities, including preferences for familiar foods and for restricting trade to within the British Empire, created a countervailing pressure which kept food miles very high throughout the period under consideration. This study shows that long before the terminology was coined, food miles played a role in decision making around food supplies and invites the application of the concept to other historical periods.
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2020 |
Cushing N, 'Mallee Country: Land, People, History', AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES, 51 357-358 (2020)
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2020 |
Cushing N, 'The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History', ANTHROZOOS, 33 453-455 (2020)
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2019 | Cushing N, 'To Eat or Not to Eat Kangaroo: Bargaining over Food Choice in the Anthropocene', M/C Journal, 22 1-3 (2019) [C1] | |||||||
2018 |
McIntyre JA, Cushing N, Coleborne C, 'Letters to Lizzie: Archival practice and the entangled worlds of Charlie Fraser', Australian Historical Studies, 49 341-358 (2018) [C1]
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2018 |
Cushing N, ' Few commodities are more hazardous : Australian live animal export, 1788 1880', Environment and History, 24 445-468 (2018) [C1] © 2018 The White Horse Press. Live animal export has a long history but it is rarely considered in the vigorous contemporary debates surrounding the practice. This article explore... [more] © 2018 The White Horse Press. Live animal export has a long history but it is rarely considered in the vigorous contemporary debates surrounding the practice. This article explores the origins, extent and nature of the trade in livestock, primarily sheep and cattle, conducted out of Britain¿s first Australian colony, New South Wales, between 1788 and 1880. Drawing upon contemporary accounts and official statistics related to the trade, it contributes to the literature on human¿animal relations by exploring the experience of animals during live export and the effect of the trade on attitudes to meat consumption. By subjecting animals to long sea voyages for the purposes of breeding or consumption, live export in the colonial period laid the groundwork for the commodification of animals used for food and the industrialisation of meat production in the twentieth century.
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2017 |
Hardy AV, Cushing N, 'A Sensory History of the Newcastle Asylum for Imbeciles and Idiots, 1871-1900', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 19 139-160 (2017) [C1]
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2017 |
Cushing N, Markwell K, '"The Bird was a Valuable One": Keeping Australian Native Animals, 1803-1939', Society and Animals, 25 592-609 (2017) [C1] © 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Australian native, nonhuman animals at first intrigued and then disappointed newcomers as Australia was colonized by the Brit... [more] © 2017 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Australian native, nonhuman animals at first intrigued and then disappointed newcomers as Australia was colonized by the British in the late eighteenth century. They were disparaged as unproductive and unpalatable oddities, killed as competitors to introduced species, or harvested as a source of fur and feathers for export. Focusing on the period 1803 to 1939, this paper examines one exception to this general pattern: the keeping of native animals as "pets." Contemporary newspaper articles and advertisements are drawn upon to demonstrate that the Australian native fauna kept as pets were highly valued both emotionally by their "owners" and economically in the commercial trade and the courts. This valuation had few direct benefits to species overall because it remained focused on individual pets and was not shared with free-living animals, but it did keep alive an interest in native animals that greatly expanded in the mid-twentieth century.
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2017 |
Cushing N, McIntyre J, 'Entangled Region: Newcastle and the Hunter Valley', Journal of Australian Colonial History, 19 1-16 (2017) [C1]
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2016 | Cushing NE, 'Interspecies Entanglements of Eating Kangaroo, 1788 - 1850', History Australia, 13 286-299 (2016) [C1] | |||||||
2016 | Cushing N, 'The Red Kangaroo in Central Australia: an Early Account', HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE, 27 230-231 (2016) | |||||||
2016 |
Markwell K, Cushing N, 'The killer of the cane fields : The social construction of the Australian coastal taipan', Journal of Australian Studies, 40 74-91 (2016) [C1]
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2014 |
Cushing N, 'Playing in the Bush: Recreation and National Parks in New South Wales', JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 38 123-124 (2014)
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2014 | Bridgman H, Cushing NE, 'Science and Perceptions of PM Problems in Newcastle, NSW since the closure of heavy industry', Air Quality and Climate Change, 48 27-34 (2014) [C1] | |||||||
2012 | Boom K, Ben-Ami D, Croft DB, Cushing NE, Ramp D, Boronyak L, ''Pest' and Resource: A Legal History of Australia's Kangaroos', Animal Studies Journal, 1 17-40 (2012) [C1] | |||||||
2010 |
Cushing NE, Markwell K, ''Watch out for these killers!': Newspaper coverage of the Sydney Funnel Web Spider and its impact on antivenom research', Health and History, 12 79-96 (2010) [C1]
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2009 |
Cushing NE, 'Australia's smoke city: Air pollution in Newcastle', Australian Economic History Review, 49 19-33 (2009) [C1]
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2009 | Cushing NE, 'Balancing Biography and Institutional History: Eric Worrell s Australian Reptile Park', Public History Review, 16 78-91 (2009) [C2] | |||||||
2009 |
Markwell K, Cushing NE, 'The serpent's stare meets the tourist's gaze: Strategies of display at the Australian Reptile Park', Current Issues in Tourism, 12 475-488 (2009) [C1]
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2007 | Cushing NE, 'The road behind us: the Pacific Highway, Sydney to Brisbane, as a heritage corridor', Historic Environment, 20 21-25 (2007) | |||||||
2007 |
Cushing NE, 'The mysterious disappearance of maize: Food compulsion and food choice in colonial New South Wales', Food, Culture and Society, 10 109-130 (2007) [C1]
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2005 |
Boissonneault M-F, Gladstone W, Scott PB, Cushing NE, 'Grey Nurse Shark Human Interactions and Portrayals:A Study of newspaper portrayals of the Grey Nurse Shark from 1969-2003', Electronic Green Journal, Winter 2005 Online (2005) [C1]
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2005 |
Lemmings D, Cushing N, 'Review Policy for History Australia', History Australia, 2 1 (2005)
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1999 | Cushing N, 'A Day at the Coast: Gender, Work and Holiday Making on the New South Wales Central Coast', Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, 4 3-11 (1999) [C1] | |||||||
1998 |
Cushing NE, 'Coalopolis to Steel City: Perceptions of Newcastle 1797-1859', Journal of Australian Studies, 57 61-71 (1998) [C1]
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1998 | Cushing NE, 'Timbertown, A Review', Locality, 9, #1 13-18 (1998) [C3] | |||||||
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Conference (7 outputs)
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2009 | Cushing NE, Markwell K, 'The zoo-goer's grimace: Fear and loathing in the zoo experience', A World of Popular Entertainments Conference Proceedings, Callaghan, NSW (2009) [E3] | ||||||
2008 | Cushing NE, Markwell KW, 'The Voyage of the Platypus, 1947: The role of the naturalist in international diplomacy', Locating History. Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference. Abstracts, Melbourne, VIC (2008) [E3] | ||||||
2008 | Cushing NE, Markwell KW, ''Don't by-pass Gosford': The Car, the Australian Reptile Park and the promotion of tourism on the New South Wales Central Coast, 1959 - 80', Seachange: New and Renewed Urban Landscapes: 9th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference Proceedings, Caloundra, QLD (2008) [E1] | ||||||
2007 |
Boissonneault M-F, Gladstone W, Scott PB, Cushing NE, 'Grey nurse shark human interactions and portrayals: A study of newspaper portrayals of the grey nurse shark from 1969-2003', Animals and Society II: Considering Animals. Handbook, Hobart (2007) [E3]
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2005 |
Cushing N, Eklund E, Lemmings D, 'Visions: 12th Biennial National Conference of The Australian Historical Association, Newcastle, 5 - 9 July 2004', History Australia (2005)
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2002 | Cushing N, '"Urban Space in the Suburbs, The Pacific Highway and Sydney's Upper North Shore"' (2002) [E1] | ||||||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 16 |
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Total funding | $125,595 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20201 grants / $20,000
Faculty funding for external engagement in 2020 - Centre for 21st Century Humanities$20,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Dr J McIntyre (Director); Dr K Ariotti; A/Prof G Arrighi; Dr H Askland; Dr J Coffey; A/Prof N Cushing; E/Prof H Craig et al |
Scheme | Faculty funding |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2020 |
Funding Finish | 2020 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20181 grants / $15,000
Alternative Futures and Regional Prospects Research Network: Working across Differences, beyond Carbon, Capital and Commodity$15,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Dr S.A Hamed Hosseini, Emeritus Professor Terry Lovat, Professor Roger Markwick, Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Dr Sara Motta, Professor Bill Mitchell, Professor Martin Watts, Professor Verity Burghmann, Associate Professor James Goodman |
Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2018 |
Funding Finish | 2018 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20171 grants / $13,000
Global Newcastle Research Network$13,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Scheme | FEDUA Strategic Networks and Pilot Projects (SNaPP) |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2017 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20163 grants / $11,727
Global Newcastle: Regional Identity and Digital History$9,727
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Professor Catharine Coleborne, Doctor Julie McIntyre, Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Doctor James Bennett |
Scheme | Linkage Pilot Research Grant |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2017 |
GNo | G1600837 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant V$1,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Nancy Cushing; Caroline Webb |
Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
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Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant VI$1,000
Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Nancy Cushing; Sean Lowry; Michael Kilmister |
Scheme | Ourimbah Strategic Research Grant scheme |
Role | Investigator |
Funding Start | 2016 |
Funding Finish | 2016 |
GNo | |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20151 grants / $5,000
Meat for the Pot: Cultures of Meat Eating in Colonial Australia$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts
Funding body | University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Strategic Networks Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2015 |
Funding Finish | 2015 |
GNo | G1500897 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20131 grants / $12,000
The Skeleton at the Feast: Australian animals as food and non food in the colonial period$12,000
Funding body: Library Council of NSW
Funding body | Library Council of NSW |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Merewether Scholarship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2013 |
Funding Finish | 2013 |
GNo | G1301342 |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - State |
Category | 2OPS |
UON | Y |
20081 grants / $545
Australian Historical Associtation Biennial Conference, University of Melbourne, 7/7/2008 - 10/7/2008$545
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2008 |
Funding Finish | 2008 |
GNo | G0189261 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20052 grants / $27,697
Equity Research Fellowship Round 1 2005$27,262
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Equity Research Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0184854 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Australia ICOMOS, Corrugations, The Romance and Reality of Historic Roads, 25-27 November 2005$435
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0185947 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20041 grants / $2,500
Rations and gender in colonial Australia$2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2004 |
Funding Finish | 2004 |
GNo | G0183446 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19981 grants / $2,000
A Cultural History of the Pacific Highway.$2,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 1998 |
GNo | G0177226 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19962 grants / $11,126
Directory of Historians$9,800
Funding body: 1997 Bicentenary Historical Research Projects
Funding body | 1997 Bicentenary Historical Research Projects |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Research Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1996 |
Funding Finish | 1996 |
GNo | G0176317 |
Type Of Funding | Other Public Sector - State |
Category | 2OPS |
UON | Y |
1st Annual Australian Identities: History, Culture & Environment Conference - Dublin, Ireland - 3-6/7/96$1,326
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
---|---|
Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1996 |
Funding Finish | 1996 |
GNo | G0176218 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19951 grants / $5,000
Creating the Coalopolis: Perceptions of Newcastle, 1770 to 1935.$5,000
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | New Staff Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1995 |
Funding Finish | 1995 |
GNo | G0175971 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2007 | Masters | Foodways Unfettered: Food in Early Colonial Sydney 1788-1795 | History, University of Adelaide | Sole Supervisor |
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Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Position
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
History
Contact Details
nancy.cushing@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4348 4055 |
Office
Room | CT226 and HO106 |
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Building | CT |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |