2022 Graduates

Nat Cutter (PhD in History, 2022), 'Barbarian Civility: British Expatriates and the Transformation of the Maghreb in English Thought, 1660–1714' This thesis explores the role of British expatriates living in Ottoman Algeria, Tunisia, and Tripolitania, in a transformation of British-Maghrebi diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations in the later Stuart era. This period, 1660–1714, represented a distinct transitional period in which pragmatic …

Anton Donohoe-Marques (PhD in History, 2022), 'Revisiting Anzac in the Wake of World War Two: Memory and Identity in the Post-War Period, 1945–1960' This thesis explores how war remembrance – in the form of commemorative observance and the building of memorials – developed in Australia in the period that followed World War Two, from 1945 to 1960. It investigates three key …

Nathan Gardner (PhD in History, 2022), 'Imagining the "Chinese Australian Community": A History of Community Organisations, 1970–2020' This study examines the concept of a unitary ‘Chinese Australian community’ through a comparative analysis of Chinese Australian community organisations and their responses to six major events or moments in recent history (1970–2020). These events and moments are: the end of the White Australia …

Matthew Holmes (PhD in History, 2022) 'Growing Songs: Australian Sound Media for Children from Parlour Music to Podcasts' This thesis provides the first cultural history of sound media produced for Australian children. It opens by exploring post-Federation parlour sheet music and the burgeoning mechanised media of radio and phonographs, with a concentration on the rising consumption of transnational entertainment that accelerated …

Sophie Lewincamp (PhD in Cultural Materials Conservation, 2022) 'Tiered Contact Zones: A New Engagement Model for Cultural Materials Conservation' Over recent decades, there has been increasing recognition of the need for conservators to engage and collaborate with the communities associated with the origin, ownership, and use of cultural objects. Such collaboration has developed more detailed knowledge and understanding than is possible …

David Liknaitzky (PhD in Philosophy, 2022) 'In Search of Just, Humanised Work: Overcoming Workplace Oppression and Rethinking Leadership to Create the Conditions for Human Flourishing at Work' Organisations have evolved historically such that, in some instances, it has become the norm to treat employees in ways that would otherwise not be tolerated (or, at least, far less tolerated) in the broader …

Athanasios Matanis (MA in Classics & Archaeology, 2022) 'Beyond an Antagonistic Approach: the Role of Universalism in the Formation of Koine Culture' Classical scholarship has tended to emphasise dichotomies and polarity when addressing the topic of Greek/non-Greek relations in antiquity. This anachronistic paradigm however is insufficient for understanding the multidimensional nature of Greek/non-Greek interactions and exchange during the Hellenistic period. Rather, …

Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng in her native Vietnamese) (PhD, History & Philosophy of Science), 'Tracing Non-Biomedical Therapeutic Knowledge: Social-Network Lives in Action' This thesis investigates the performance of non-biomedical therapeutic knowledge as situated knowledge on the internet. Non-biomedical therapeutic knowledge is defined as medical knowledge that exists in separation, but not isolation from, scientific biomedical knowledge. By tracing the …

Giovanni Piccolo (PhD in Classics & Archaeology, 2022), 'The Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium by Gaius Julius Solinus: A Roman Geography for a Changing World' The Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium is a collection of wondrous facts from various areas of natural science presented within the geographical framework of a description of the known world. Little is known of its author Gaius Julius Solinus, possibly …

Freg James Stokes (PhD in History, 2022). 'The Hummingbird’s Atlas: Mapping Guaraní Resistance in the Atlantic Rainforest during the Emergence of Capitalism (1500–1768)'.   This thesis maps the resistance of Guaraní peoples to colonisation in the Atlantic Rainforest of South America during the emergence of capitalism, from 1500 to 1768. As such, it addresses a gap in the existing literature, where the …

Elizabeth Tunstall (PhD in History, 2022) 'The Elizabethan Succession Question and Competing Understandings of Monarchy, 1558–1603' Queen Elizabeth I ruled England for almost 45 years (1558–1603) and, throughout her reign, the succession was a prominent source of debate and anxiety. This thesis surveys the Elizabethan succession question for the entirety of her reign, instead of dividing the topic into early or …

Sam Watts (PhD in History, 2022) 'No Masters But Ourselves: Black Reconstruction in the Deep South City' The destruction of slavery brought about dramatic opportunities and challenges for formerly enslaved Black Southerners, many of whom migrated to Southern cities in search of safety and freedom following the Civil War. During Reconstruction, the Deep South city offered economic, social and political opportunities …

J. H. Yan (PhD in History, 2022) 'Contentious Routes: Ireland Questions, Radical Political Articulations and Settler Ambivalence in (White) Australia, c1909–23' This thesis is a transnational history of the ‘Ireland Question' in the imperial and ethico-political imaginary of radical and labour movements in (‘White’) Australia during the ‘Irish revolutionary period’, broadly conceived. It traces the contestation of 'Ireland' as a political …

Richard Young (PhD in History, 2022) 'Dragging History Through the Gutters: War Comic Books, Civic Duty & American Popular Memory, 1952–1993' The Cold War era (1945–1991) coincided with both the emergence and height of war comic books in the United States. Despite significant social, political, and comic industry shifts during this period, war comics remained a consistent presence in American culture. …

Stephanie Zindilis (MA in Classics & Archaeology, 2022) 'Distaff Displacement: Narratives of Female Exile in Ovidian Poetry' Displacement is a torment experienced by numerous women in Ovid’s Heroides and Fasti. Reading these episodes from a gendered perspective reveals nuances in the female vs. male experience of exile, broadening understanding of how exile is experienced by women and its impact on their …