Historical, Cultural and Critical Inquiry
HCCI people
Our team regularly produces new research knowledge on their areas of expertise as well as making it accessible to others through teaching and public engagement initiatives. Further details can be found on their university profile pages linked below.
Dr Kate Ariotti
ARC DECRA Fellow
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Australian history; the First World War; prisoners of war; war and society.
- Kate.Ariotti@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5324
Dr Elizabeth Baynham
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Ancient History
Expertise: cultural studies; Greek studies; historical studies.
- Elizabeth.Baynham@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5232
Dr James Bennett
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Australia and the Pacific; Australian history; documentary film; gender and sexuality; history, film and representation; the First World War especially film and representation; the Labour movement; war and society.
- J.Bennett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4057 (Callaghan)
Dr Kit Candlin
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: American History, especially colonial America; European empires; the history of violence and war.
- Kit.Candlin@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 49216413
Associate Professor Nancy Cushing
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: air pollution; Australian cultural history; environmental history; food studies; heritage studies; human/animal relations; Newcastle; urban history
- Nancy.Cushing@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4055
Dr Sacha Davis
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Germany; Habsburg; Hungary; Roma; Romania; Saxon; Transylvania; Transylvanianism; Zigeuner; diaspora; eugenics; fascism; landscape; migration; minority; nationalism; transnationalism; travel writing; travelogue; wine.
- Sacha.Davis@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5217
Professor Philip Dwyer
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: biography; eighteenth-century Europe; Europe and the world; film and history; history of violence; modern European history; the French Revolution and Napoleon; the massacre in history; war memoirs; war and society.
- Philip.Dwyer@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5211
Professor Victoria Haskins
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Aboriginal history; Australian history; colonialism; cross-cultural history; dance history; domestic labour; domestic service; gender history; Indigenous history (US, Asia); museum studies; women's history.
- Victoria.Haskins@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5221
Professor Marguerite Johnson
Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
Ancient History
Expertise: classical reception; gender and sexuality studies; Greek and Latin literature; magic in antiquity; myth and fairytale.
- Marguerite.Johnson@newcastle.edu.au
- 0432104884
Dr Effie Karageorgos
Education Focused Academic
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: war history; history of psychiatry and mental illness; history of gender; history of race; South African history; Vietnamese history.
- Effie.Karageorgos@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3390
Associate Professor Hans Lukas Kieser
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Alevilik history; Armenian history; biography; contemporary Middle East; genocide; history of Turkey; massacre; modern history; modern history of the Kurds; Ottoman Empire; political violence; violence studies; religion; war; World War I.
- HANSLUKAS.KIESER@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 4921 5218
Dr Hugh Lindsay
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Ancient History
Expertise: Roman imperial history; Greek and Roman historiography; Roman biography, especially Suetonius; Greek and Roman society; ancient geography; the geographer Strabo.
- Hugh.Lindsay@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5226
Dr Julie McIntyre
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: agriculture; Australia's Atlantic; Australian and international wine studies; environmental history; global Newcastle; histories of science; knowledge mobilities; theories of civilising processes; tourism; trans-imperial migration.
- Julie.Mcintyre@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7029
Associate Professor Wayne Reynolds
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Defence history; international affairs.
- Wayne.Reynolds@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5214
Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: gender and war; history of psychiatry; war memorialisation; World War II.
Professor Lyndall Ryan
Conjoint Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: Aboriginal history; Australian history; Australian studies; feminist history; women's studies.
- LYNDALL.RYAN@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 49216692
Dr Timothy Stanley
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
Studies of Religion
Expertise: philosophy of religion; intellectual history; history of religious ideas.
- Timothy.Stanley@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 7927
Dr Chip Van Dyk
Lecturer
School of Humanities and Social Science
History
Expertise: food history; early modern and modern European history; economic history; business history and law.
- Chip.VanDyk@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4055 3398
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