Associate Professor Neil Morpeth
Conjoint Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
- Email:neil.morpeth@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:15962
Career Summary
Biography
My research output has always aimed for a small but high quality output.In this academic context and spirit,my position in Humanities &Social Science(Classics)and major academic role as Convenor of Short Programs/Bridging Courses(ELFSC/DVC-Academic division) have directly influenced my aim to produce small but qualitatively good research outcomes.The researcher's disciplinary fields of scholarly research and distinctive published outcomes can be characterized by the following descriptors: (1) intellectual traditions of thought; (2) Classical Greek history and historiography; (3) the history of ideas and history of philosophy. The researcher has achieved a qualitative research output in the broad research field of intellectual traditions of thought and the history of ideas.My recent book ,Thucydides' War:Accounting for the Faces of Conflict has received a detailed,generous and balanced review in the prestigious Bryn Mawr Classical Review.Earlier, the manuscript had also been critically and favourably assessed for publication by the editorial board of the highly regarded academic European and German publisher, Georg Olms Verlag. This intellectual traditions of thought research examines the dymanics of writing history in and about once contemporary worlds,its intellectual journeys through time, and impact upon twentieth century letters and society.Better understanding our own,often warring,contemporary world requires researchers to come to grips with the dynamics of traditions of thought and their usage and abusage through time.My research has the twin aims of being engagingly educative and scholarly.
Research Expertise
• Contemporary history and the idea of a new interdisciplinary literary genre;
• Classical traditions and legacies – writing for the future in a precarious present-tense historical world. Marc Bloch’s contemporaneous writings and histories, Strange Defeat and The Historian’s Craft, and writing on traditions of thought are not often viewed as a synergy nor given the urgent, comparative enquiry they deserve. The renowned French historian, Marc Bloch, is well known internationally for his work on Feudal Society and as one of two key founders of the Annales School of History. However, no thorough, thematic study has been conducted on his contemporaneous writings and especially those written in July 1940-1942 as an insight into his very particular, complex, subtle deployment of traditions of thought – ancient and modern.
Research Expertise
• Contemporary history and the idea of a new interdisciplinary literary genre;
• Classical traditions and legacies – writing for the future in a precarious present-tense historical world. Marc Bloch’s contemporaneous writings and histories, Strange Defeat and The Historian’s Craft, and writing on traditions of thought are not often viewed as a synergy nor given the urgent, comparative enquiry they deserve. The renowned French historian, Marc Bloch, is well known internationally for his work on Feudal Society and as one of two key founders of the Annales School of History. However, no thorough, thematic study has been conducted on his contemporaneous writings and especially those written in July 1940-1942 as an insight into his very particular, complex, subtle deployment of traditions of thought – ancient and modern.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Arts, Macquarie University
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle
- Diploma in Education, University of Newcastle
Keywords
- Classical Greek history and historiography
- History of Ideas
- History of Philosophy
- Intellectual traditions of thought
Professional Experience
Membership
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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Member and Guest Speaker | Australian College of Education Australia |
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Member - Australasian Society For Classical Studies | Australasian Society for Classical Studies Australia |
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Member of the Governing Board (Forum) -The European Legacy | International Society for the Study of European Ideas Australia |
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Member - International Standing Committee for the History of Education | International Standing Committee for the History of Education Australia |
Invitations
Participant
Year | Title / Rationale |
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2007 |
National Conference-History Teachers Assoc.of Australia 3rd Oct. Organisation: History Teachers'Assoc.NSW Description: As a result of my recent published book,Thucydides'War, and my writing,reviewing and refereeing for The European Legacy,I received an invitation to speak on "Thucydides and the history of ideas".As a guest speaker I was paid for my invited presentation.2.Invited referee for journal,Issues in Educational Research,2007,re"Teachers' conceptions of the nature of history". |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2006 | Morpeth NA, Thucydides' War: Accounting for the Faces of Conflict, Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Germany, 348 (2006) [A1] |
Chapter (4 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2012 | Morpeth NA, ''The individual' in history and history in general: Alcibiades, philosophical history and ideas in contest', Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator, Bristol Classical Press, London 200-213 (2012) [B1] | ||
2001 | Morpeth NA, 'The Pen and the Sword: Marc Bloch's Victory in 'Strange Defeat' - History as Human Conservation', Humaniesierung Der Bilding Jahrbuch 2001, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 264-284 (2001) [B1] | ||
1999 | Morpeth NA, 'Imagine the Genii and the Historians: The Legacy of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre', Variete: perspectives in French literature, society and culture, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 137-154 (1999) [B1] | ||
1999 | Morpeth NA, 'Thucydides as Teacher of Contemporary History: The Philosopher/Historian?s Encounter with History?s Faces of War', Humanisierung der Bildung, Jahrbuch 1999 der IAHB, Peter Lang, Frankfurt 78-110 (1999) [B1] | ||
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Journal article (12 outputs)
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2011 | Morpeth NA, 'The fluidity of the past and the present: Historians and ways of perceiving/understanding - Part 2', Teaching History, 44 18-25 (2011) [C1] | ||||
2011 | Morpeth NA, 'Worlds at War: The 2,500-Year Struggle between East and West', European Legacy - Toward New Paradigms, 16 425 (2011) [C3] | ||||
2010 | Morpeth N, 'Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus.', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 15 928-928 (2010) | ||||
2010 | Morpeth N, 'Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr.', EUROPEAN LEGACY-TOWARD NEW PARADIGMS, 15 928-929 (2010) | ||||
2009 |
Morpeth NA, 'Ancient philosophy: A new history of western philosophy, Vol 1', The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 14 232-234 (2009) [C3]
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2008 |
Morpeth NA, 'The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators', European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms, 13 120-121 (2008) [C3]
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2008 |
Morpeth NA, 'The Legacy of Socrates', European Legacy-Toward New Paradigms, 13 785-786 (2008) [C3]
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2007 | Morpeth NA, 'Thucydides and the history of ideas: Viewing Thucydides' Peloponnesian War anew - Questions of qualitative understanding and insightfulness', Teaching History, 41 20-24 (2007) [C2] | ||||
2005 |
Morpeth NA, 'Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat, The Historian's Craft and World War II: Writing and Teaching Contemporary History', The European Legacy, 10 179-195 (2005) [C1]
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2003 | Morpeth NA, 'Thucydides and Internal War', The International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 9:6, 2003 xi+410 (2003) [C3] | ||||
2000 | Morpeth NA, 'Jack Lindsay, Dionysos and Nietzsche: Siren Calls--Ancient and Modern', Prudentia, 32 138-180 (2000) [C1] | ||||
1998 | Morpeth NA, 'Eugenics, Orientalism and Classical Education: The Darker side of the Western Tradition', Paedagogica Historica, Suppl.vol.IV 107-149 (1998) [C1] | ||||
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Review (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2006 | Morpeth NA, 'The very model of conflict and fear : reason,unreason and Social Darwinism', Social Darwinism in European and American Thought,1860-1945,Paedagogica Historica (2006) [D1] |
Conference (3 outputs)
Other (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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2014 | Morpeth NA, ' Jack Lindsay s World: Between Nietzsche & Marx and Marx & Nietzsche? Jack Lindsay and the Politics of Knowledge.', ( pp.0-0): Transforming Cultures Research Centre (2014) [O1] |
Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 8 |
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Total funding | $19,710 |
Click on a grant title below to expand the full details for that specific grant.
20052 grants / $6,087
Jack Lindsay and the writing of intellectual history: An Australian contribution to the history of ideas$4,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0184760 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
VIII International Congress for the History of the Culture of Writing, 4-8 July 2005$1,587
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2005 |
Funding Finish | 2005 |
GNo | G0185355 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20031 grants / $280
Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy 15/11/03 to 17/11/03$280
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2003 |
Funding Finish | 2003 |
GNo | G0183740 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20022 grants / $7,900
Re-examining the significance of Marc Bloch's (1886-June 16,1944) work, Strange Defeat, and its 'analysis' of the Nazi invasion of France: Writing contemporary$5,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0181336 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Paris July 9-13, 2002$2,400
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2002 |
Funding Finish | 2002 |
GNo | G0182027 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
20002 grants / $4,373
Re-Examining the Significance of Marc Bloch's (1886-June 16, 1944) work, Strange Defeat, and its 'Analysis' of the Nazi Invasion of France: writing contemporary$2,500
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Special Project Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2000 |
Funding Finish | 2000 |
GNo | G0178835 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
ISCHE XXII: International Standing Conference for the History of Education: Books & Education, Madrid, Spain.$1,873
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 2000 |
Funding Finish | 2000 |
GNo | G0180310 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
19981 grants / $1,070
International standing conference for the history of education: Imagine all the education, Belgium 14-18 August 1998$1,070
Funding body: University of Newcastle
Funding body | University of Newcastle |
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Project Team | Associate Professor Neil Morpeth |
Scheme | Travel Grant |
Role | Lead |
Funding Start | 1998 |
Funding Finish | 1998 |
GNo | G0180362 |
Type Of Funding | Internal |
Category | INTE |
UON | Y |
Research Supervision
Number of supervisions
Completed4
Current0
Past Supervision
Year | Level of Study | Research Title | Program | Supervisor Type |
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2013 | PhD | Philosophical and Theological Reflection on the Bible as a Significant Body of Non-sectarian Literature in Religious Education | PhD (Education), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2006 | Masters | Geometry and Philosophy in Greek Antiquity | M Arts (Philosophy) [R], College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
2006 | PhD | Diet in Disease and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome | PhD (Classics), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Co-Supervisor |
2003 | PhD | A Comparative Exploration of the Topology and Iconography of Labyrinthine Symbols in Western Culture: Towards an Integration of Philosophy, Mathematics and History | PhD (Fine Art), College of Human and Social Futures, The University of Newcastle | Principal Supervisor |
Associate Professor Neil Morpeth
Position
Conjoint Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Contact Details
neil.morpeth@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | 15962 |
Fax | 16901 |
Office
Room | MCLG58 |
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Building | McMullin |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |