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Environmental Humanities

Thom van Dooren (Environmental Humanities Convenor)
Philosophical, ethical, social and political dimensions of species extinctions
Animal studies and the philosophy of ecology and ethology
Death, mourning and funerary traditions
+61 2 9385 3768 | t.van.dooren@unsw.edu.au | MB 323

Stephen Healy
Energy and climate; risk/uncertainty; public participation
Post-humanist and post-foucauldian science studies
Consumption and affect
+61 2 9385 1597 | s.healy@unsw.edu.au | MB 319

Matthew Kearnes (Environmental Humanities Convenor)
The social and political dimensions of nanotechnology and synthetic biology, climate change and society
The social and political dimensions of geoengineering, Science and Technology Studies (STS)

+61 2 9385 1010 | m.kearnes@unsw.edu.au | MB 317

Eben Kirksey
The ethnographic, political, and philosophical dimensions of multispecies entanglements
Natural and cultural history; bioart and ecoart; political imagination; practical collaborations; biotechnology; ecological disasters; tactical biopolitics
Cultural studies of social insects, endangered amphibians, zoosporic fungi, and Rhesus macaques
+61 2 9385 1489 | eben.kirksey@unsw.edu.au | MB 333

Vanessa Lemm (Head of School)
Nietzsche, Political Philosophy, Contermporary French and Italian Philosophy
Biopolitics and the Question of the Animal
Theories of Justice and the Gift
+61 2 9385 9442 | v.lemm@unsw.edu.au | MB 372

Deborah Rose (Professorial Visiting Fellow)
Extinctions studies - multispecies communities at the edge, in the greater Pacific region
Symbiosis, the Anthropocene and an ethics of complex mutualism
Indigenous ecological knowledge and philosophy
+61 2 9385 8355 | deborah.rose@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

John Merson (Honorary Associate Professor)
Sustainable development and natural resource management
Adaptive environmental policy and management
Climage change adaption policy
+61 2 9385 2966 | j.merson@unsw.edu.au | Vallentine Annex 139

Matthew Chrulew (Adjunct Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355 | tba | MB 309B

History

Ruth Balint (Australian Studies Convenor)
Twentieth century Australian history
Refugees and displaced persons; documentary film and history;
Seascapes and maritime sovereignties
+61 2 9385 8278 | r.balint@unsw.edu.au | MB 345

Saliha Belmessous
Early-modern French history;
Colonial history (French, European, Atlantic); comparative imperial history
European-Indigenous relations; comparative indigenous history
+61 2 9385 2362 | s.belmessous@unsw.edu.au | MB 362

Stefania Bernini (Postgraduate Coordinator)
Family politics
The transformation of family life and their relation to the wider processes of social, political and cultural change in twentieth century Europe

+61 2 9385 2319 | s.bernini@unsw.edu.au | MB 370

Helene Bowen Raddeker (Women's and Gender Studies Convenor)
Japanese History
Historiography, Feminist & Interdisciplinary Theory
Women's History & Gender Studies, History of Feminism
+61 2 9385 2335 | hbowenr@unsw.edu.au | MB 361

Sean Brawley
Australia's Asian Context
Military History
South Seas and South Pacific; Sport; Terrorism
+61 2 9385 2342 | s.brawley@unsw.edu.au | MB 346

David Cahill (Americas Studies Convenor)
Social structures of ancient Inca nobility

+61 2 9385 1434 | d.cahill@unsw.edu.au | MB 324

Nick Doumanis (History Convenor)
World/transnational history; The Ottoman Empire
Mediterranean societies, particularly the eastern Mediterranean, macrohistory, communal relations, cultural history, social memory,
popular mentalities, ethnographic history, state formation, diaspora networks, Greece (all periods), Italy (all periods)
+61 2 9385 1705 | n.doumanis@unsw.edu.au | MB 369

Lisa Ford
Ideas and practices of order in the post-1763 Anglophone world

+61 2 9385 3669 | l.ford@unsw.edu.au | MB 344

John Gascoigne (Acting Humanities Honours Convenor)
European-Pacific contact (1763-1842), Sir Joseph Banks, James Cook, Australian colonial culture
Modern Britain, Colonial Australia,
The Enlightenment, history of ideas especially in relation to the interplay between science and religion, history of universities
+61 2 9385 2341 | j.gascoigne@unsw.edu.au | MB 342

Hamish Graham
France in the 18th and 19th centuries; rural history; forest history; crime and popular protest; resource management and state formation
Early Modern Europe
The French Revolution; history of women and gender; history of crime and protest
+61 2 9385 2337 | h.graham@unsw.edu.au | MB 367

Katrina Gulliver
Cultural history, gender and representation.
History of cities and urban identity.
World/transnational history, intercultural exchange.
ph tba | k.gulliver@unsw.edu.au | MB tba

Grace Karskens
Colonial Australian history
Cross-cultural history
Urban history, environmental history, heritage, museums and material culture
+61 2 9385 1673 | g.karskens@unsw.edu.au | MB 340

Jan Lanicek
Twentieth century European history; transnational histories
Jewish/non Jewish Relations
The Holocaust; history of East-Central Europe
+61 2 9385 1497 | j.lanicek@unsw.edu.au | MB 364

Martyn Lyons (Emeritus Professor)
Modern European History
The History of Reading and Writing

+61 2 9385 3261 | m.lyons@unsw.edu.au | MB 349

Kama Maclean
Indian history and politics
Mughal to modern; religious history, imperialism and postcolonial theory
Visual culture as historiography
+61 2 9385 3665 | kama.maclean@unsw.edu.au | MB 366

Günter Minnerup
Modern European and German history
Historiography
Philosophy of history
+61 2 9385 3051 | g.minnerup@unsw.edu.au | MB 365

Geoffrey Nathan
Ancient Mediterranean, late antiquity, ancient and medieval social history
World history (pre-1500)

+61 2 9385 8014 | g.nathan@unsw.edu.au | MB 363

Anne O'Brien
Australian history; gender, religion and welfare histories

+61 2 9385 2384 | anne.obrien@unsw.edu.au | MB 368

Mina Roces
Modern Southeast Asian history
Women in Asia
Women's movements in the Philippines, transnational activism, politics of dress or dress and identity
+61 2 9385 2348 | m.roces@unsw.edu.au | MB 359

Peter Ross
Comparison of the production and distribution of social wealth in Australia and Argentina, 1880-2005
History of the economic, social and political development of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Political, economic and social development in contemporary Venezuela
+61 2 9385 2418 | p.ross@unsw.edu.au | MB 336

Shawn Ross
The evolution of Greek culture and society in the pre-Classical period; pre-modern imperialism; settlement and landscape archaeology
Digital humanities
The scholarship of teaching and learning
+61 2 9385 8228 | shawn.ross@unsw.edu.au | MB 360

Peter Schrijvers
US Foreign Relations History
War and Society
World War II
+61 2 9385 3668 | p.schrijvers@unsw.edu.au | MB 358

Zora Simic
Australian feminist studies
Culture in Sydney's south-western suburbs from 1976-1996

+61 2 9385 1736 | z.simic@unsw.edu.au | MB 347

Michael Pearson (Emeritus Professor)

+61 2 9385 8355 | mnpearson@ozemail.com.au | MB 309B

Ian Tyrrell (Scientia Professor of History; Emeritus Professor)
Late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century American history
Environmental history
Historiography
+61 2 9385 2345 | i.tyrrell@unsw.edu.au | MB 352

Ian Bickerton (Associate Professor; Visiting Associate Professor)
Middle Eastern History
Wars
Political history
+61 2 9385 8355 | i.bickerton@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Robin Derricourt (Associate Professor (Conjoint))
Archaeology
Historiography
Publishing
+61 2 9337 1801 | r.derricourt@unsw.edu.au | By appointment

Jean Gelman Taylor (Honorary Associate Professor)
Social history of Indonesia
Interactions between Dutch and Indonesians
Issues of modernity
+61 2 9385 8355 | jeant@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Bruce Kaye (Adjunct Senior Lecturer)
Religious history

+61 2 9385 8355 | bnkaye@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Michael Abrahams-Sprod (Adjunct Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355| tba | MB 309B

Robert Loeffel (Adjunct Lecturer)
Social control and terror in Nazi Germany
Australians who collaborated with the Germans during the Second World War
History and development of technical education in Australia
+61 2 9385 8355 | r.loeffel@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Stanley Serafin (Adjunct Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355| tba | MB 309B

Christopher Sheil (Visiting Fellow)

+61 2 9385 8355 | s3002959@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Benedict Taylor (Adjunct Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355 | tba | MB 309B

Geoffrey Treloar (Visiting Fellow)

+61 2 9385 8355 | tba | MB 309B

History and Philosophy of Science

Anthony Corones (Deputy Postgraduate Coordinator)
Philosophy of science
Philosophy of technology
Naturalised epistemology, historiography of science, and surveillance medicine
+61 2 9385 2357 | a.corones@unsw.edu.au | MB 320

Susan Hardy (School Grievance Officer)
Medicine and surgery in the nineteenth century
History of health care in the Australian colonies

+61 2 9385 2351 | s.hardy@unsw.edu.au | MB 318

David Philip Miller
The social history of British science and scientific institutions in the 18th and 19th centuries
The historical sociology of scientific knowledge
The development of concepts of 'discovery' and 'invention' in relation to the claiming of intellectual property from the 18th century to the present
+61 2 9385 2359 | dp.miller@unsw.edu.au | MB 316

Nicolas Rasmussen
The history of life sciences in the 20th century, including evolving relations between the drug industry and biomedical research
The social framing of pharmaceuticals and drug abuse
The rise of 'Big Science' in postwar biomedicine in America, and the impact of laboratory instrumentation on biological knowledge and disciplines
+61 2 9385 2361 | nicolas.rasmussen@unsw.edu.au | MB 314

Gavan McDonell (Associate Professor; Professorial Visiting Fellow)

+61 2 9385 8355 | gavangavan@gmail.com | MB 309B

David Oldroyd (Honorary Professor)
History of geology

+61 2 9385 8355 | d.oldroyd@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Philosophy

Simone Bignall
Political and Continental philosophy
Deleuze studies, Colonialism and postcolonialism
Theories of embodiment and community
+61 2 9385 2432 | simone.bignall@unsw.edu.au | MB 330

Joanne Faulkner
Political philosophy (European),
Nietzsche
Psychoanalytic theory, feminist philosophy, childhood
+61 2 9385 2287 | j.faulkner@unsw.edu.au | MB 338

Stephen Hetherington
Epistemology and metaphysics, including meta-epistemology, philosophical knowledge, various forms of scepticism
The Gettier problem
Non-absolute knowledge, induction, a priori knowledge, fallibilism, contextualism, death, free will, and moral responsibility
+61 2 9385 2318 | s.hetherington@unsw.edu.au | MB 337

Heikki Ikaheimo
Hegel
German philosophy and social philosophy
Social ontology, recognition and personhood.
+61 2 9385 2373 | h.ikaheimo@unsw.edu.au | MB 321

Karyn Lai (Bachelor of Arts Convenor; School Learning and Teaching Coordinator)
Confucian philosophy, Daoist philosophy and Pre-Qin Chinese philosophy
Comparative ethics, Comparative epistemology
Environmental Ethics
+61 2 9385 1194 | k.lai@unsw.edu.au | MB 326

Simon Lumsden (Philosophy Convenor)
German Idealism
Hermeneutics
Modern European Philosophy, Philosophy of History
+61 2 9385 2369 | s.lumsden@unsw.edu.au | MB 335

Melissa M. Merritt
Kant
History of Modern Philosophy, Aesthetics
Ancient Greek and Hellenistic Ethics
+61 2 9385 2764 | m.merritt@unsw.edu.au | MB 341

Michaelis Michael
Metaphysics
Philosophy of language; Philosophy of biology; Philosophy of mind logic; ethics
History of philosophy
+61 2 9385 2183 | m.michael at unsw.edu.au | MB 325

Paul Patton (Scientia Professor of Philosophy; Research Group Coordinator)
European philosophy since Kant, especially Nietzsche and French poststructuralism
Political philosophy, especially political liberalism, rights and decolonization

+61 2 9385 2391 | prp@unsw.edu.au | MB 329

James Phillips
German philosophy (especially Kant, Heidegger and Arendt)
Political philosophy, aesthetics, poststructuralism
Relations between philosophical and literary texts
+61 2 9385 2987 | j.phillips@unsw.edu.au | MB 322

Peter Slezak
Philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language, philosophy of science
Descartes
Galileo
+61 2 9385 2422 | p.slezak@unsw.edu.au | MB 315

Markos Valaris
Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Action
Epistemology, Kant
History of Early Analytic Philosophy (Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein)
+61 2 9385 2760 | m.valaris@unsw.edu.au | MB 339

Rosalyn Diprose (Emeritus Professor)

+61 2 9385 1027 | r.diprose@unsw.edu.au | MB 332

Philip Cam (Associate Professor (Conjoint))

+61 2 9385 8355 | p.cam@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Stephen Cohen (Associate Professor (Conjoint))

+61 2 9385 2320 | s.cohen@unsw.edu.au | MB 334

Phillip Staines (Honorary Senior Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355 | p.staines@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Nir Fresco (Adjunct Associate Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355 | nir.fresco@unsw.edu.au | MB 309B

Paul Dickens (Adjunct Lecturer)

+61 2 9385 8355 | tba | MB 309B

Professional and Technical Staff

Lekana Kim

+61 2 9385 2356 | l.kim@unsw.edu.au | MB 353

Denise Lee

+61 2 9385 2371 | denise.lee@unsw.edu.au | MB 353

Sally Pearson

+61 2 9385 8864 | sally.pearson@unsw.edu.au | MB 353

Samuel Russell

+61 2 9385 2344 | sam.russell@unsw.edu.au | MB 353

Taline Tabakyan-Golino

+61 2 9385 2343 | t.tabakyan@unsw.edu.au | MB 353

Student Representatives

David Lah (Philosophy Postgraduate representative)

d.lah@unsw.edu.au

Shafaq Masud (Environmental Humanities / History and Philosophy of Science Postgraduate student representative)

shafaq.masud@student.unsw.edu.au

Katherine Jacka (History Postgraduate student representative)

jacka.katherine@gmail.com