Associate Professor Paula Hamilton
Key Centre for Cultural Studies: Trans/forming Cultures, University of Technology, Sydney
Current ARC Projects
2003 ARC Discovery (with Paul Ashton) Places of the heart: Memorials in Australia from 1960
1999 Australians and the Past: An ARC-funded Linkage project in which UTS academic staff have conducted a national survey in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Tranby Aboriginal College, the Powerhouse Museum and the History Teacher's Association.
Publications
Chapters in Books
'Cultural history and Memory Studies', in Hsiu Ming and Richard White (eds), Cultural history in Australia, UNSW Press, 2003.
'Sale of the Century? Memory and Historical Consciousness in Australia', in Katharine Hodgkin & Susannah Radstone (eds), Contested Pasts, Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative, New York and London, 2003.
(with Paul Ashton) 'Race and nation in Australian Public History', in Daniel Walkowitz (ed) Race and Empire in History: Narrating the Nation in and for the Public, Duke University Press, 2001.
'Journalists, Gender and Workplace Culture, 1900-1940', in Ann Curthoys & Julianne Schultz (eds), Print Journalism, Politics and Popular Culture, University of Queensland Press, 1999
Refereed Articles
2003 Special issue 'Australians and the Past' edited by Paula Hamilton & Paul Ashton, Australian Cultural History No 22.
Hamilton, Paula and Ashton, Paul 'At home with the Past: Background and Initial Findings from the Survey' in Australian Cultural History No 22.
(with Paul Ashton) 'On Not Belonging: Memorials and Memory in Sydney', Public History Review, Vol 9, 2001.No.47, 1999.
'Memory Remains: Ferry Disaster, Sydney, 1938', History Workshop Journal, (Britain), No.47, 1999.
Current Research Interests
cultural memory, autobiography and narrative
Australian history, especially popular culture and social history
histories of media
historical methodology, especially, oral history, visual representation and material cultures
feminist history
historiography