Melbourne Historical Journal
Published since 1961, Melbourne Historical Journal (MHJ) is a refereed journal for the publication of Australian, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Pacific postgraduate and early career scholars working in history. It is open to new approaches and aims to present original graduate and ECA work to a wide and responsive readership.
MHJ is not limited to Australian topics nor authors, publishing articles and reviews on history in the broadest sense. We welcomes contributions from scholars worldwide focusing on history topics from all periods and across geographical space.
We usually release one volume issue per year and the occasional MHJ Research Series. The journal features themed articles by prominent, established historians, and presents new and exciting research by talented, emerging historians.
Disjunctures, the theme of the latest issue, Volume 48 (2023), encouraged exploration of the intersection between narrating the past and how this practice is embedded in larger power structures.
MHJ is produced by a volunteer Collective of graduate and early career scholars. In 2024, the Collective currently comprises Nicole Davis, Ines Jahudkha, Sasha Riabichenko, Carl Sciglitano, and Shouyue Zhang.
We have just begun our work on this year’s issue and welcome Collective members from the SHAPS postgraduate and ECA cohorts, particularly the History and History & Philosophy of Science Programs, but are open to others working in the fields of history broadly. If you would still like to join us in 2024, please contact us via email.
The 2021–2023 MJH Collective consisted of Luke Yin, Jonathan Tehusijarana, Jen McFarland, Max Denton, Jessie Matheson, Stephen Jakubowicz, Bronwyn Beech Jones, Thea Gardiner, Simon Farley and James Hogg.
For submissions and further information, head to the MHJ website. For a history of MHJ from 1961 to 1997, see Kat Ellinghaus, ‘Visionary But Noble’ or ‘Groping Hopefully’: Twenty-Five Editions Of The Melbourne Historical Journal‘, Melbourne Historical Journal 25 (1997): 1–7.
