Research
The Department of Modern History is a highly active group of scholars, who work in research areas ranging across Australian History, World History, Empire and Postcolonial History, Europe and the West, women's, gender and feminist history, Aboriginal history, the history of sexuality, popular culture, media history, the history of ideas, and historiography.
Please find out more about research by the department's staff and postgraduate students, and the two interdisciplinary research centres, the Centre for Cultural History and the Centre for Media History. Have a look at the department's many, exciting publications.
We are also proud to be the editorial home of the internationally-renowned journal Australian Feminist Studies. AFS editors include Associate Professor Mary Spongberg from Department of Modern History and Dr Nicole Moore from Department of English.