Category: academia
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New post for AHA ECR blog: Surviving academia without permanency
I am very excited that the ECR blog for the Australian Historical Association has featured an article by me on surviving in academia without tenure. Here is the first paragraph: I have decided that the best way to write about being a non-tenured academic in Australia in the humanities/social sciences is to talk about surviving. But…
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Precarity and overwork in academia
In December last year, I stopped work on all of my research projects. The following week, I compromised with myself and said no primary research (reading archival documents) or writing for the next month, only secondary source reading. I had one conference paper to present at the end of January, so for the week leading…
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New article published in TCBH on CPGB and gay rights
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that Daryl Leeworthy and I have just had an article published in Twentieth Century British History journal on the Communist Party of Great Britain and gay rights. The title of the article is ‘Before Pride: The Struggle for the Recognition of Gay Rights in the…
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Turning that blog post into a journal article: A quick guide
One of the popular blog posts for academics that I have seen over the last year has been on turning your journal article into a blog post. I am assuming this is aimed at academics who don’t blog regularly and may be considering contributing to multi-authored blog as an opportunity to showcase their research. This…
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CFP: XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, Monash University, 11-14 July 2017
Monash would like to invite you to the XXVth Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, to be held at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus in Melbourne. Europe’s Entanglements Location: Monash University (Melbourne), 11 – 14 July 2017 Contact: arts-AAEH2017@monash.edu Website: http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/australasian-association-for-european-history-2017/ First deadline for paper and panel proposals: 30 September 2016 As Europe commemorates the centenary of the…
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For those on academia.edu, join my feedback session on transnational communism & anti-racism in WWII
I just thought I’d post this there for anyone on academia.edu and has an interest in transnational communist history. I am currently running a feedback session on the site for my paper ‘”Our Soldiers Need Guns!” Communists and the Enlistment of Black Soldiers in the Second World War in South Africa, Australia and the United…
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Public engagement ftw!
Two guest posts by yours truly have been published in the last two days. The first is on my research into the UK perspective on the dismissal of Gough Whitlam in 1975 and has been published by The Conversation. The second is on Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and their view of Australia as…
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Are labour historians still doing labour history?
#twitterstorians, @liz_beths and I are pondering, is labour history dead? #labourhistory — Evan Smith (@Hatfulofhistory) September 19, 2015 Today I have been having a discussion with several friends on social media over the question that an academic posited to me – is labour history dead? As part of that discussion, most of us have argued…
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