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Teaching Staff

ACADEMIC STAFF IN THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Teaching Staff

Betros, Dr Gemma (History)
Biccum, Dr April (Political Science & International Relations)

Bissell, Dr David (Sociology)
Bloul, Dr Rachel (Sociology)
Cook, Dr Alexander (History)
Craig, Dr Douglas (History)
Dawson, Dr Mark (History)
Dowding, Prof Keith (Political Science & International Relations)
Errington, Dr Wayne (Political Science & International Relations)
George, Dr Jim
(Convenor - International Relations)
Greig, Dr Alastair (Convenor - Sociology)
Hart, Dr John
(Political Science & International Relations)
Huynh, Dr Kim (Political Science & International Relations)
Hynes, Dr Maria (Sociology)


Klovdahl, Dr Alden (Sociology)
Knott, Dr John ( History)
Kuhn, Dr Rick (Polical Science & International Relations)

Lee-Koo, Dr Katrina (Political Science & International Relations)
Maley, Dr Maria (Political Science & International Relations)

Matthews, Professor Jill (History)
(Head of School)
McKinley, Dr Michael
(Political Science & International Relations)
Minns, Dr John
(Political Science & International Relations)
Sikora, Dr Joanna (Sociology)
Wellings, Dr Ben (Convenor - European Studies)
West, Dr David
( Convener - Political Science)
White, Dr Kevin
(Sociology)
Woollacott, Prof Angela (Convener - History)

Adjunct Appointments

Clarke, Professor Graeme - Adjunct Professor
Hopkins, Prof Andrew - Adjunct Professor
Rowland, Dr Don - Adjunct Reader

Saha, Dr Lawrence - Adjunct Professor
Sawer, Professor Marian
- Adjunct Professor
Tillotson, Dr John - Adjunct Reader
Warhust, Professor John - Adjunct Professor

 

TEACHING STAFF DETAILS

Betros, Dr Gemma BA (Hons) QLD, M.Phil Cambridge, PhD Cambridge.
Lecturer in History

Research and Teaching Interests: Modern European history (especially France), Enlightenment, French Revolution, Napoleonic Empire, history of women religious.

Office: Haydon-Allen 1203A
Contact Number: 6125 2720
Email: Gemma.Betros@anu.edu.au

 

Biccum, Dr April BA (Hons) York U. Canada, MA, PhD Nottingham
Lecturer in Political Science

Research and Teaching Interests: The Politics and Empire, Critical Development Studies, Post-Colonial Theory, Globalization and popular culture and Global Governance.

Office: Copland 2135
Contact Number: 6125 2664
Email: April.Biccum@anu.edu.au

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Bissell, Dr David BA (Hons) Cambridge, MA, PhD Durham
Lecturer in Sociology

Research and Teaching Interests: mobilities, particularly mobile publics; affect and emotion; phenomenology, corporeality and embodiment; materiality and post-humanism; qualitative methods.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2156
Contact Number: 6125 4209
Email: David.Bissell @anu.edu.au

Personal webpages: www.davidbissell.com

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Bloul, Dr Rachel BA UNSW PhD Macquarie
Lecturer in Sociology

 

Research and Teaching Interests: Islam in the West (with stress on Europe), Gender Interethnic & interracial relations, Cultural politics in global/local relations, Comparative moralities/ethical imagination in contemporary world.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2163
Contact Number: 6125 5178
Email: Rachel.Bloul@anu.edu.au

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Cook, Dr Alexander BA (Hons) ANU, M.Phil Cambridge, PhD Cambridge
Lecturer in History

 

Research and Teaching Interests: Modern British and French history; history of political thought and political culture; commercial society; the Enlightenment; empire; public history; historical theory and method.


Office: Haydon-Allen 1190
Contact Number: 6125 2717
Email: Alexander.Cook@anu.edu.au

Craig, Dr Douglas BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) Syd., MA PhD Virg.
Reader in History

 

Research and Teaching Interests: Modern United States history.


Office: Haydon-Allen 1220
Contact Number: 6125 2712
Email: Douglas.Craig@anu.edu.au

Dawson, Dr Mark MA(Hons) Auckland; PhD Cambridge
Lecturer in History

 

Research and teaching interests:

  • early modern Britain and Atlantic world
  • early modern English drama and literature
  • histories of social inequality and the body

Office: Haydon-Allen 1199
Contact Number: 6125 2713
Email: Mark.Dawson@anu.edu.au

Dowding, Prof Keith
Professor of Political Science

 

Research and teaching interests:

Office: Coombs Building
Contact Number: 6125 9546
Email: Keith.Dowding@anu.edu.au

 

Errington, Dr Wayne BA, PhD W. Aust
Lecturer in Political Science

 

Research and teaching interests: Australian politics; democracy and democratic theory; political leadership and communication.

Office: Copland 2128
Contact Number: 6125 4082
Email: Wayne.Errington@anu.edu.au

George, Dr Jim BA WAust., PhD ANU
Senior Lecturer
in International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: International Relations, International Relations Theory,
Globalisation and Political Theory.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2149
Contact Number: 6125 2650
Email: Jim.George@anu.edu.au

Greig, Dr Alastair BA PhD ANU
Reader in Sociology

 

Research and teaching interests: Industrial and organisational sociology; Urban Sociology; Globalisation.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2148
Contact Number:
6125 4913
Email:
Alastair.Greig@anu.edu.au

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Hart, Dr John BA, PhD Kent
Reader in Political Science and International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: Government and Politics in the USA; American Presidency;
American Elections; British Politics and comparative executive government.

Office: Copland 1165
Contact Number: 6125 4469
Email: J.Hart@anu.edu.au

Huynh, Dr Kim BA (Hons), PhD ANU
Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: Politic Deception, International Relations, Refugee Politics and
Political Literature.


Office: Haydon-Allen 2155
Contact Number: 6125 0590
Email: Kim.Huynh@anu.edu.au

Hynes, Dr Maria PhD (Sociology), BA (Hons) and Dipp App Sci.
Lecturer in Sociology

 

Research and teaching interests: Anti-globalisation politics, racism & anti-racism, politics of hope and humour, and the relationship between science and art.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2169
Contact Number: 6125 8127
Email: Maria.Hynes@anu.edu.au

Klovdahl, Dr Alden AB NYU, AM PhD Mich.
Lecturer
in Sociology

Research and teaching interests: Social Networks; Networks and Infectious Diseases; Sexual Networks in various population groups (e.g., gay, heterosexual); Networks connecting users of illicit or illegal drugs; Virtually any topic area across the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural or physical sciences and engineering to which a social network component might contribute to increased understanding; Society and Environment topics; Social Construction of Environmental concerns, issues or problems. [If questions, feel free to email me.]

Office: Haydon-Allen 2171
Contact Number: 6125 4479
Email: Alden.Klovdahl@anu.edu.au

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Knott, Dr John BA LaT., PhD ANU.
Senior Lecturer
in History

 

Research and teaching interests: British and Australian history; history of the Second World War; history of technology, history of motoring and road safety.

Office: Haydon-Allen 1176
Contact Number: 6125 2722
Email: John.Knott@anu.edu.au

Kuhn, Dr Rick BA (Hons) Macq., BEc PhD Syd.
Reader in
Political Science and International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: Australian Political Economy; Marxism; German and Austrian Political Economy Class Analysis; Social Democratic Parties.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2153
Contact Number: 6125 3851
Email: Rick.Kuhn@anu.edu.au

Rick Kuhn's individual staff page is at the following address: www.anu.edu.au/polsci/rick/

Laugesen, Dr Amanda BA (Hons), PhD (ANU)
Lecturer in History

 

Research and teaching interests: US History; Australian History; History of Print Culture, Reading and the Book.

Office: Haydon-Allen 1211
Contact Number: 6125 2714
Email: Amanda.Laugesen@anu.edu.au

 

Lee-Koo, Dr Katrina BA (Hons) QLD, MA Nottingham, PhD ANU
Lecturer in International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: International Relations, Critical Security Studies, Feminist International Politics and Gendered Politics of War.

Office: Copland 2143
Contact Number: 6125 3997
Email: Katrina.LeeKoo@anu.edu.au

Maley, Dr Maria BA Sydney PhD ANU
Lecturer in Political Science

 

Research and teaching interests: Australian politics, public administration and public policy

Office: Haydon-Allen 2142
Contact Number: 6125 3982
Email: Maria.Maley@anu.edu.au



Matthews, Prof Jill Julius BA PhD Adel
Professor of
History and Head of School

 

Research and teaching interests: History of sexuality, popular culture especially silent film, modernity, Australian social and cultural history, feminist history.

Office: Copland 2132
Contact Number: 6125 4523
Email: Jill.Matthews@anu.edu.au

 

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McKinley, Dr Michael BA (Hons) Well., PhD ANU
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: International Relations, Strategic Studies, Australian foreign policy, Regional security.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2159
Contact Number: 6125 2641
Email: Michael.McKinley@anu.edu.au

Minns, Dr John BA(Hons), PhD UNSW
Senior Lecturer in International Relations

 

Research and teaching interests: International Political Economy, International Relations, Newly Industrialising Countries, Third World Development, Globalisation and the Labour Movement.

Office: Haydon-Allen 1182
Contact Number:
6125 5424
Email:
John.Minns@anu.edu.au

Sikora, Dr Joanna Mgr Wroclaw, Phd ANU
Lecturer in Sociology

Research Interests:

  • Education and attitudes
  • Occupational expectations of high school students
  • Social inequality in comparative perspective
  • Transition from education to work
  • Attitudes to government regulation of the economy
  • Comparative survey research methodology

Office: Haydon-Allen 2167
Contact Number: 6125 4574
Email: Joanna.Sikora@anu.edu.au

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Wellings, Dr Ben BA (Hons) Sussex, MSc Edinburgh, PhD ANU
Lecturer (Convener of European Studies)

 

Research and teaching interests: Nationalism; History and politics in Europe, Britain and Australia.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2153
Contact Number: 6125 3173
Email: Ben.Wellings@anu.edu.au

 

West, Dr David MA Cantab., PhD Bradford
Reader in Political Science

 

Research and teaching interests: Habermas and critical theory, theories of new social movements, politics of sexuality.

Office: Copland 1167
Contact Number: 6125 4256
Email: David.West@anu.edu.au

David West's individual staff page is at the following address: http://arts.anu.edu.au/sss/west/

White, Dr Kevin BA, PhD Flinders
Reader in Sociology

 

Research and teaching interests: The Sociology of Health and Illness; The Historical Sociology of Health; Medicine and Social Problems; Privatisation, the market and health.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2154
Contact Number: 612 54561
Email: Kevin.White@anu.edu.au

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Woollacott, Prof Angela BA (ANU); BA (Hons) Univ. of Adelaide; MA, PhD Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
Manning Clark Professor of History

 

Research and teaching interests: Australian history; British Empire and postcolonial history; women’s and gender history; transnational history; whiteness and settler colonialism

Office: Haydon-Allen 1216
Contact Number: 612 52715
Email: Angela.Woollacott@anu.edu.au

 

Link to more details

 

ADJUNCT APPOINTMENT DETAILS

Clarke, Professor Graeme BA Oxf., MA NZ, MA LitD Melb., FAHA, FSA
Adjunct Professor

Research and teaching interests: Roman Imperial History (especially of the Third Century), Early Church History/Patristic Studies, Archaeology of the Levant in the Classical Period.

Office: Haydon-Allen 1209
Contact Number:
6125 4789
Email: Graeme.Clarke@anu.edu.au

Hopkins, Professor Andrew MA ANU PhD Connecticut
Adjunct Professor

 

Research and teaching interests: The management of occupational health and safety; The legal regulation of occupational health and safety; Industrial disasters; Coal mine health and safety.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2152
Contact Number:
6125 4793
Email:
Andrew.Hopkins@anu.edu.au

Link to SOCY2008 - Sociology of Disasters

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Rowland, Dr Don BA MA Auckland PhD ANU
Adjunct Reader

Research and teaching interests: Australian Demography, The Family, Ageing
and Migration.

Office: Copland 1142
Contact Number: 612 54308
Email: Donald.Rowland@anu.edu.au

Saha, Professor Lawrence BA Notre Dame (Ind) MA PhD Texas
Adjunct Professor

Research and teaching interests: Sociology of Education, Development and Social Movements.

 

Office: Copland 1156
Contact Number: 6125 2132

Email: Lawrence.Saha@anu.edu.au

Sawer, Professor Marian BA Hons, MA, PhD ANU
Adjunct Professor

Research and teaching interests: democratic theory and practice (including parliamentary and electoral reform), gender politics and policy, social movements

Office: Haydon-Allen 1201
Contact Number: 6125 0130
Email: Marian.Sawer@anu.edu.au

Link to more details

Link to information on the Democratic Audit group

Tillotson, Dr John BA DipEd Oxf., PhD ANU
Adjunct Reader

Research and teaching interests: TBA

 

Office: Copland 2133
Contact Number:
6125 7569
Email: John.Tillotson@anu.edu.au

Warhurst, Prof John BA PhD Flinders
Adjunct Professor

Research and teaching interests: Australian Political Institutions, Political parties and interest groups, Intergovernmental relations and public policy, elections and voting.

Office: Haydon-Allen 2149A
Contact Number: 6125 3882
Email: John.Warhurst@anu.edu.au