Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci (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
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
- Coal
- Crime history
- Environmental History
- Food studies
- Human/Animal Relations
- Newcastle
- Statues and memorialisation
- Urban history
Languages
- English (Mother)
Fields of Research
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430302 | Australian history | 60 |
430307 | Environmental history | 40 |
Professional Experience
UON Appointment
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Associate Professor | University of Newcastle School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci Australia |
Academic appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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1/1/2011 - 1/1/2017 | Senior Lecturer | University of Newcastle Faculty of Education and Arts Australia |
1/9/2003 - 1/12/2005 | Editor of Exhibition Reviews | History Australia Australia |
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 |
Membership
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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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1/4/2019 - 30/4/2021 | 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
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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 (6 outputs)
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2022 |
Cushing N, A History of Crime in Australia, Routledge
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2018 |
Cushing N, Frawley J, Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations (2018) Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the ... [more] Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they become either enemies upon whom to declare war or victims to be protected. In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact animals. This collection explores the fortunes of amphibians, mammals, insects and fish whose numbers have created concern in settler Australia and examines shifts in these populations between excess, abundance, equilibrium, scarcity and extinction. The book points to the importance of caution in future campaigns to manipulate animal populations, and demonstrates how approaches from the humanities can be deployed to bring fresh perspectives to understandings of how to live alongside other animals.
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Cushing N, Frawley J, Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations (2018) Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the ... [more] Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they become either enemies upon whom to declare war or victims to be protected. In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact animals. This collection explores the fortunes of amphibians, mammals, insects and fish whose numbers have created concern in settler Australia and examines shifts in these populations between excess, abundance, equilibrium, scarcity and extinction. The book points to the importance of caution in future campaigns to manipulate animal populations, and demonstrates how approaches from the humanities can be deployed to bring fresh perspectives to understandings of how to live alongside other animals.
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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] | |||||||
2015 | Cushing NE, Bridgman H, Smoky City: A History of Air Pollution in Newcastle, NSW, Hunter Press, Newcastle, vi, 142 pages (2015) [A2] | Nova | ||||||
2010 | Markwell K, Cushing NE, Snake-bitten: Eric Worrell and the Australian Reptile Park, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 240 (2010) [A1] | Nova | ||||||
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Chapter (31 outputs)
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2023 |
Orr N, Cushing N, 'Monumental Copper and Coal: The Case for Including Extractivism in the Rethinking of Colonial Commemorations', The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations, Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland 217-238 (2023) [B1]
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2022 |
Cushing N, 'Introduction', A History of Crime in Australia, Routledge 1-12 (2022)
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2022 |
Cushing N, 'Popular Crimes', A History of Crime in Australia, Routledge 167-183 (2022)
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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]
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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, UK 113-125 (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]
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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, UK 113-125 (2018) [B1]
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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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
2002 | Cushing NE, 'The Pacific Highway and Australian Modernity', Departures: how Australia reinvents itself, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 44-51 (2002) [B1] | Nova | ||||||
1998 | Cushing NE, 'Our History Our Valley', Riverchange, Newcastle Region Public Library, Newcastle 3-36 (1998) [B1] | |||||||
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Journal article (35 outputs)
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2024 |
Nagy V, Piper A, Cushing N, 'Citizen Social Science in the Classroom: Criminology Students Perceptions of Prisoner Records', Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 35 218-234 (2024) [C1]
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2022 |
Conway J, Cushing N, May J, 'Obstacle Course: Women s Entry into Skilled Positions in the Newcastle Steel Industry, 1980 2000', Labour History, 122 77-105 (2022) [C1]
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2021 |
Cushing N, 'All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformations through Species Acclimatization, from Colonial Australia to the World', AGRICULTURAL HISTORY, 95 198-200 (2021)
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2021 |
Cushing N, '#CoalMustFall: Revisiting Newcastle s coal monument in the Anthropocene', History Australia, 18 782-800 (2021) [C1] The recent actions taken against statues of figures associated with colonisation and racial oppression have again drawn attention to the enduring power of monuments in the landsca... [more] The recent actions taken against statues of figures associated with colonisation and racial oppression have again drawn attention to the enduring power of monuments in the landscape, even after many have disavowed the values they embody. This article shifts the critique from a focus on race to climate, with an examination of the Jubilee or Coal Monument erected in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1909. This monument was designed with the intention of celebrating coal as the foundation of the city¿s prosperity and a driver of modernity. In the midst of a climate crisis, its future warrants consideration. Taking an activist stance, it is argued that the monument should be removed to a museum for reframing and reinterpretation while in its place a counter-monument to coal, defined by James E. Young as a ¿memorial space conceived to challenge the very premise of the monument¿, is erected. This counter-monument would serve as a transitional location for expressions of pride in past personal and corporate associations with the coal industry and grief at its passing, while avoiding the creation of an enduring monument which would inevitably become the target of future generations for whom coal will have very different meanings.
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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] 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 t... [more] 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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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] | Nova | ||||||
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] 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 natu... [more] 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] 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 disparag... [more] 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]
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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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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) | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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] | Nova | ||||||
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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2023 |
Cushing N, Orr N, Perez Lopez I, 'Raise Your Voice: A Community Forum on Talking Back to Monuments', The University Gallery, The University of Newcastle (2023)
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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] | Nova | |||
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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Creative Work (1 outputs)
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2018 |
Ware SA, Flatman N, Sauni A, Reilly W, Chapman M, Martin K, et al., Honeysuckle Placemaking, Honeysuckle Precinct and Foreshore, Newcastle, NSW Australia (2018) [N1]
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 20 |
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Total funding | $258,005 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20241 grants / $110,000
Beauty and the Beasts: A History of Animals in Sydney$110,000
Funding body: State Library New South Wales
Funding body | State Library New South Wales |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Nancy Cushing |
Scheme | Coral Thomas Fellowship |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2024 |
Funding Finish | 2025 |
GNo | G2400024 |
Type Of Funding | C2400 – Aust StateTerritoryLocal – Other |
Category | 2400 |
UON | Y |
20231 grants / $4,910
Histories of Humans and Other Animals in Australia: Approaching the Anthropocene$4,910
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2023 |
Funding Finish | 2023 |
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Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
20222 grants / $17,500
The Old Made New: Re-imagining monuments using digital arts$15,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | A/Prof Nancy Cushing (lead), Dr Zi Siang See, Mr Nikolas Orr, Dr Irene Perez Lopez, Ms Courtney Novak (The Lock-Up) |
Scheme | CHSF - Pilot Research Scheme: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
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Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
CHSF Research Output Funding$2,500
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | CHSF - Research Output Scheme |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2022 |
Funding Finish | 2022 |
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Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | N |
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, Associate Professor 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 |
GNo | |
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 |
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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 |
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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
Current Supervision
Commenced | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2023 | PhD | A History of the Building Services at the Sydney Opera House, 1958-2023 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | Masters | ‘Enforced Tranquility’: animals, violence and sport in Ireland 1798 – 1924 ( | M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Separately Amused: Social Aspects of Musical Entertainment in Sydney from 1820 to 1840 | PhD (Music), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Cooltong's Citrus Growers: A Settler Industry in Meru Country, South Australia | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Contemporary Indigenous Iconoclasm in Global Perspective: Contested Monuments in Three Settler Colonies, c.1968–2000 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2020 | Masters | Developing Summerland: Coastal Suburbanisation Between Sydney and Newcastle: 1945-2000 | M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2017 | PhD | 'The Early History of Civilisation at Brisbane Water has Been, to a Considerable Extent, Forgotten by Even its Oldest European Inhabitants' Henry Kendall, 1875. Remembering Contact History on the Central Coast of New South Wales. | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2016 | PhD | A History of George Wyndham of Dalwood | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2022 | PhD | Modern Dating Rituals in Australia, 1940 -1970 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | A History of the Aboriginal People of the Central Coast of New South Wales to 1874 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2022 | PhD | The Newcastle Women’s Movement in the 1970s and 1980s through the Lens of Josephine Conway’s Activism and Archives | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2021 | PhD | Australian Urban Squatters of The 1970s: Establishing and Living a Radical Lifestyle in Inner-City Sydney | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | Masters | The Making of the Newcastle Industrial Hub 1915 to 1950 | M Philosophy (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2019 | PhD | Early Seamen's Missions in the British World | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | When the Grass Roots Died: Finding and Understanding an Australian Coal Mining Community in the 1980s | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2018 | PhD | The History and Impacts of the University of Newcastle’s Open Foundation Program | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2015 | PhD | Possession, Planning and Control: Imperial and Early Australian Land Policies as a Cornerstone of New South Wales History, 1788-1853 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2014 | PhD | "...here is an Asylum open..." Constructing a Culture of Government Care in Australia 1801 - 2014 | PhD (History), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2007 | Masters | Do Historic Houses Have a Future? An Exploration of the Factors Which Contribute to or Detract From the Recognition, Appreciation and Formal Heritage Protection of Historic Houses in the Central Coast Region | M Arts (Humanities) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Sole Supervisor |
2007 | Masters | Foodways Unfettered: Food in Early Colonial Sydney 1788-1795 | History, University of Adelaide | Sole Supervisor |
2004 | PhD | Founding Fathers and Foundering Myths: Monuments to Explorers in the Blue Mountains New South Wales | PhD (Humanities), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Research Projects
Global Newcastle 2015 -
Re-imagining Monuments Using Digital Arts 2021 -
Grants
Re-Imagining Monuments Using Digital Arts
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle
Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures, University of Newcastle |
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Scheme | Pilot Research: Projects, Pivots, Partnerships |
Collaborators
Name | Organisation |
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Mr Jean-Luc Schmid | |
Doctor Irene Perez Lopez | University of Newcastle |
Associate Professor Nancy Eileen Cushing | University of Newcastle |
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News
News • 20 Aug 2020
History Week events promote the importance of history in navigating todays challenges
The University of Newcastle is celebrating History Week 2020 with a series of events that highlight this year’s theme ‘History: what is it good for?’ which invites participants to share why history is important to them.
News • 14 Jul 2020
Will bushfire smoke exposure make people more vulnerable to COVID-19?
Environmental historian Associate Professor Nancy Cushing has long been interested in the history of air pollution, particularly in once heavily polluted Newcastle. So when the bushfires ravaged New South Wales in late 2019/early 2020 and many people were talking about this level of smoke and bushfire as unprecedented, she wanted to see if that was actually the case.
News • 29 Jun 2020
Historians reveal little known histories of the Spanish Flu
Two Centre for 21st Century Humanities historians have delved into different aspects of the Spanish Flu pandemic, revealing little known histories which have become even more pertinent during the COVID-19 crisis.
News • 9 Mar 2020
History under the spotlight at the Newcastle Writers Festival
The Newcastle Writers Festival will again this year feature talks from historians, not only from the University of Newcastle, but also from the local area and beyond.
News • 21 Jun 2017
Peeling back the layers of Newcastle's History
UON’s Global Newcastle initiative is pulling the layers of Newcastle’s history back one fascinating story at a time.
News • 24 Mar 2015
Radical Newcastle launched at Newcastle Writers Festival
Watch talks by Newcastle radicals Vera Deacon, Professor John Maynard and Dr Daniela Heil, along with an official launch by Vice-Chancellor Professor Caroline McMillen of the Radical Newcastle book.
News • 15 Dec 2014
How Christmas pudding evolved with Australia
Dr Nancy Cushing and Dr Julie McIntyre, historians from the University of Newcastle's School of Humanities and Social Science, look at how Christmas pudding evolved with Australia in The Conversation.
News • 24 Oct 2014
Unearthing Newcastle's radical past
Historians Dr James Bennett and Dr Nancy Cushing from the University of Newcastle (UON), along with Dr Erik Eklund from Federation University, VIC, bring together a selection of essays about Newcastle's radical past, and consider its impact on the present and future.
Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Position
Associate Professor
School of Humanities, Creative Ind and Social Sci
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
History
Contact Details
nancy.cushing@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4348 4055 |
Office
Room | W227 |
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Building | CT |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |