Dr Adrian Carton, Lecturer
PhD, History, University of Sydney, 2003
MA (Hons), History, University of Melbourne, 1995
BA (Hons I) History, University of Melbourne, 1991
| Office: | W6A 405 |
| Phone: | +61 2 9850 7041 |
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| Email: | adrian.carton@humn.mq.edu.au |
Adrian completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2003 and after a short while as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, joined the Department in 2004. Adrian's wide-ranging research training was in Asian, Atlantic and European history with a doctoral specialization in the racial politics of British and French imperialism in eighteenth century India. In the Department, he teaches across the areas of world history, cultural history and Asian history and is also research active in the areas of imperial and postcolonial history. He currently serves as a general councillor for the Asian Studies Association and is a founding member of the Centre for Cultural History at Macquarie University.
Research interests
I am currently interested in cross-cultural contacts and interactions in a global setting and postcolonial approaches to racial mixing and cultural identity across British and French imperial contexts. More recently, I have developed new research interests in the history of food, sexuality, and the wider south Asian world.
Areas of supervision
I am able and happy to supervise topics in south Asian history, French or British imperial history, global/cultural history and postcolonial approaches to race and sexuality.
Current Research Projects
I am currently working on three projects:
- A Global and Cultural History of Food
Drawn from my original MUNS funded project, this larger collaborative edited collection will consider the relationship between food and cultural identity in global and imperial contexts. My contribution looks at the depiction, consumption and circulation of colonial foodstuffs and the construction of 'race' in women's magazines and journals.
- Divergent Encounters, Racializing Moments
Growing out of the recent 'Global Convergences' symposium at Macquarie in February 2007, this larger collaborative edited collection with Dr Alison Holland and Professor Barbara Brookes will consider how the notion of 'race' was articulated during the colonial encounter in Australia, New Zealand, India and the Middle East.
- Métissage Across Empires
Funded by the MQRDG scheme, this is a collaborative research project looking at British and French notions of racial hybridity in colonial Pondicherry, Mauritius and Trinidad from 1760 to 1840.
Research funding
2006 Macquarie University Research and Development Grant ($41,503)
Title: Metissage Across Empires: The Shifting Frontiers of Colour and Colonialism in Pondicherry, Mauritius and Trinidad, 1760-1840 (in conjunction with University of Manchester)
2004 Macquarie University Teaching Development Grant ($6,000)
Title: Fostering Global Interactions: Learning World History in A Borderless Electronic Age (in conjunction with Northeastern University, Boston)
2004 Macquarie University New Staff Research Grant ($19,500)
Title: Eating the Empire: Depictions of Colonial Foodstuffs and the Consumption of Race.
2003 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Industry (APDI)
Title: Couples: Depictions of Sexuality in South and Southeast Asian Art (in conjunction with AGNSW and University of Sydney)
Monograph-in-progress
- Destabilizing Anglo-India: Whiteness and The Politics of Location in British and French India ; 1763-1800 [in progress]
Journal and review articles
- "Historicising Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives", in Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 28, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 143-155.
- "Re-Writing the Turtle's Back: Gendered Bodies in a Global Age", in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies , vol. 8, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 177-185.
- [with Patrick Manning], "Fostering Global Interactions? An Experiment in Teaching World History Across National Boundaries", in World History Connected , vol. 3, no. 3, July 2006, 47 paras.
- "Hanging On British Coat-tails: Women's Pleas, Cultural Difference and Liminal Worlds", in History Australia, vol. 1, no. 2, July 2004, pp. 229-244.
- "War of the Worlds", in Meanjin , vol. 63, no. 2, 2004, pp. 80-84.
- "Beyond Cotton Mary: Anglo-Indian Categories and Reclaiming the Diverse Past," in International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies , vol. 5, no. 1, 2000, pp. 1-12.
- "Symbolic Crossings: Vietnamese Women Enter the Australian Consciousness; 1976-1986", in Working Papers in Australian Studies , Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, no. 91, 1994, pp. 57-84.
Chapters in edited books
- "Postcolonial Melodies: Racial Erasure and the Performance of Whiteness in Two Anglo-Indian Memoirs", in Desley Deacon, Penny Russell and Angela Woollacott (eds), Transnational Lives: Biography Across Boundaries , ( Durham : Duke University Press, 2008) [submitted and forthcoming]
- "Reinventing the Wheel, Recalling the World: Asoka and the National Imaginary in India ", in Ken Parry (ed), Silk Roads VII: Art, Architecture and Religion on the Silk Road and Across Inner Asian History, (Brepols, 2007) [submitted and forthcoming]
- "Faire and Well-Formed: Portuguese Eurasian Women and Symbolic Whiteness in Early Colonial India", in Antoinette Burton and Tony Ballantyne (eds), Moving Subjects: Mobility, Intimacy and Gender in a Global Age of Empire , ( Champaign : University of Illinois Press , 2007), pp. 281-309. [in press]
- "Remembering Kedgeree", in John Thieme and Ira Raja (eds), The Table Is Laid: The Oxford Anthology of South Asian Food Writing, ( Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 325-329.
- "Desire and Same-Sex Intimacies in Asia" in Robert Aldrich (ed), Gay Life and Culture: A World History , ( London : Thames and Hudson , 2006), pp. 302-331.
- "A Passionate Occupier of the Transnational Transit Lounge", in S. Kwan and K. Spiers (eds), Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects , ( Austin : University of Texas Press , 2004), pp. 73-89.
Encyclopedia Entries
- "New World Foods in Nineteenth Century India and South-East Asia" and "The Invention of the Restaurant in France", in James Overveld (editor-in-chief), World History Encyclopedia , (Los Angeles: ABC-Clio, 2007), [forthcoming]
- "The French East India Company", in Benjamin, Thomas (editor) Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. (Detroit: Macmillan, 2006), vol. 2, pp. 501-502.
- "Food" in William McNeil (senior editor), Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History , (Great Barrington: Berkshire Publishing, 2005), pp. 757-763.
Recent Reviews
- Review of Alison Blunt, Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). In Cultural Geographies , vol. 14, no. 3, July 2007, pp. 463-464.
- Review of Saurabh Dube, Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles (Durham; Duke University Press, 2004). In Histoire sociale/Social History , vol. XXXIX, no. 78, November 2006, pp. 525-527.
- Review of Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative ( Oxford : Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). In Education About Asia , vol. 11, no. 2, Fall 2006, pp. 61-62.
- Review of Vinay Lal, Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy (London: Pluto Press 2002) In Patterns of Prejudice , vol. 39, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 261-264.
- Review of Distant Lands and Diverse Cultures: The French Experience in Asia, 1600-1700. Eds. Glenn J. Ames and Ronald S. Love. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. In H-France Review , vol. 4, no. 51, May 2004.
Undergraduate units
HIST253 War and Peace in World History
HIST254/369 World Contacts and Interactions Since 1450
HIST363 South Asian Worlds
WebCT links to online units
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/HIST253/
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/HIST254/
http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/HIST363/
Postgraduate Units
MHPG811 Colonialism, Sex, Gender
MHPG917 A Global History of Food
Committees
Department level
Member, HDR Committee
Department library officer
Department seminar convenor
Divisional level
Member, International Committee
Member, Library Committee
Conferences convened
'Global Convergences: European Encounters and Cultural Interactions' , an international symposium with the Department of History, Otago University , 14 February 2007 [co-convened with Professor Angela Woollacott]
Other Service
Division of Humanities Teaching Mentor
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