BA (Hons) (WA), MA (WA), PhD (NSW), Grad Cert (UNE)
History Honours Advisor, Semester 2 2009
Office: Forgan Smith E332
Phone: (+61 7) 3365 2162
Teaching
American History; the Vietnam War
Research interests
Cultural history; American history; The Pacific War; The Vietnam War
Selected Recent Publications
In press (with S. Brawley, and B. Trefalt), Fighting words: competing voices from the Pacific War (Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing).
2006 “Courageous, proud, and frightened: African-American narratives of the Vietnam War,” Inter-cultural Studies 6, pp. 1-8.
2005 (with Roger Bell and Sean Brawley) Conflict in the Pacific, 1937-1951 (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), pp. 235.
2005 (with Sean Brawley and Jeff Green) Conflict in Indochina, 1954-1979 (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press), pp.220.
2004 “Denouncing the ‘horrible and deadly game’: Martin Luther King, Jr., and African American opposition to the Vietnam War,” in ed. Ülkü Donagay (ed.), Faces of war phases of reconciliation (Ankara: Ankara University Printing House), pp. 59-74.
2002 (with Sean Brawley)“‘Tan Yanks’ amid a ‘semblance of civilization’: African American encounters with the South Pacific, 1942-1945,” in Peter Bastian and Roger Bell (eds), Through depression and war: The United States and Australia, (Sydney: Australian-American Fulbright Association and the Australian New Zealand American Studies Association), pp. 92-109.
2002 (with Sean Brawley) “Jim Crow Down-under: African American encounters with White Australia, 1942-45”, Pacific Historical Review 71, pp. 607-32.
2002 “Wrong, Colonel Kilgore, this war isn’t going to end: the enduring power of the Vietnam War in American culture”, Inter-cultural Studies 2, pp. 50-59.