Dr Mark Hearn, Associate Lecturer
PhD, University of Sydney, 2001
BA (Hons), Macquarie University, 1987
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| Phone: | +61 2 9850 8824 |
| Fax: | +61 2 9850 6594 |
| Email: | Mark.Hearn@humn.mq.edu.au |
I have published and worked as an historian since 1986, researching various aspects of Australian history. My first book, Bligh, Macarthur and the Rum Rebellion (co-authored with Ross Fitzgerald), was published in 1988. I subsequently published widely in the field of labour history. Between 2002-4 I was a Sesquicentenary Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business , University of Sydney . In recent years my research has focused on aspects of culture and governance in the period 1890-1914. In 2006-7 I was the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales, researching the fin de siècle Imagination in Australia , 1890-1914.
Fields of specialisation and areas of supervision:
Australian history; the history of ideas, governance and culture in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia ; biography, labour history, history of postmodernity.
Current Research Projects:
- The fin de siècle Imagination in Australia , 1890-1914
The fin de siècle represented a break with traditional Victorian values, seeking new sources of imaginative, personal and social freedom from the modernist ideas that had emerged from the mid nineteenth century, including Darwinism, socialism and psychology. My research considers the experience of figures who embraced fin de siècle ideas, and explores how fin de siècle values and ideas were assimilated into Australian society and liberal governance.
- The history of postmodernity
This research reflects on another transitional historical moment. Historians and social scientists have drawn attention to the need to recognise the historical nature of postmodernity, and the opportunity this recognition provides to reshape our responses to the world, acknowledging contingency, and respect for alternative points of view and alternative cultures. My research reflects on why postmodernist ideas emerged in the 1960s, and their development across the economic, political and ethical dislocations of subsequent decades, and the implications of postmodernist ideas and ethics in a post Cold War world preoccupied with threats of global terrorism and climate change.
Research funding and fellowships:
C.H. Currey Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales 2006-7.
Sesquicentenary Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business , University of Sydney 2002-4 .
National Council for the Centenary of Federation funding for the 'Working Life and Federation', conference and edited collection, 2000-1.
Monographs
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Edited Collections & Editorial roles
- Associate Editor, Labour History , 2002-2008.
- Editor, Working Lives , online labour and social biography research project
www.econ.usyd.edu.au/workinglives 2002-8.
- Co-editor, work Site, 2002-2008:
http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/wos/worksite
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- Joint editor, 'Struggling for Recognition: the Individual in Labour History', thematic edition of Labour History No.87 November 2004.
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- Reforming Australia 's Unions (co-edited with Michael Costa), Federation Press 1997.
- Associate Editor, Labour History, 2002-2007.
- Editor, Working Lives online labour and social biography research project www.econ.usyd.edu.au/workinglives 2002-7.
Refereed Journal Articles
- 'Productivity and Patriotism: the Management Narrative of New South Wales Rail Chief Commissioner James Fraser, 1917-1929', Business History , Vol.50 No.1 2008 pp.26-39.
- 'Developing a Critical Discourse: Michel Foucault and the Cult of Solidarity', Critical Discourse Studies , Vol.5 No.1 2008 pp.21-34.
- 'Cultivating an Australian Sentiment: John Christian Watson's Narrative of White Nationalism', National Identities , Vol.9 No.4 2007 pp.351-368.
- 'Sifting the Evidence: Labour history and the transcripts of industrial arbitration proceedings', Labour History , No.93 November 2007, pp.3-13.
- 'Making liberal citizens: Justice Higgins and his witnesses', Labour History , No.93 November 2007, pp.57-72.
- Reworking Citizenship: Renewing Workplace Rights and Social Citizenship in Australia ', (co-authored with Russell Lansbury) Labour and Industry August 2006.
- Writing a Life: John Dwyer's Narrative Identity', Rethinking History , Vol. 10 No.1 2006.
- Securing the Man: Narratives of Gender and Nation in the Verdicts of Henry Bournes Higgins', Australian Historical Studies No.127 April 2006
- 'Examined suspiciously: Alfred Deakin, Eleanor Cameron and Australian liberal discourse in the 1911 Referendum', History Australia , Vol. 2 No.3 2005.
- 'Mary Malone's Lessons: a narrative of citizenship in Federation Australia', Gender & History Vol.16 No.2 2004
- 'Rose Summerfield's Gospel of Discontent: a narrative of radical identity in late nineteenth century Australia ', Labour History , No. 87 November 2004.
- 'Struggling for Recognition: Reading the Individual in Labour History', co-author, Labour History , No. 87 November 2004.
- 'A Wild Awakening: the 1893 Banking Crisis and the Theatrical Narratives of the Castlereagh Street Radicals', Labour History , No.85 November 2003.
- 'A good man for the Department: the ethos of the Railway and Tramway Officers Association of New South Wales, 1913-1939'. Australian Historical Studies , No.112, April 1999.
- 'Means and Ends: The Ideology of Dr Lloyd Ross', Labour History , No. 63 November 1992.
Book Chapters
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- The National Narrative of Work' (with Harry Knowles), in Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson (eds.), Rethinking Work: Time, Space, Discourse , Cambridge University Press 2006
- 'Citizen Dwyer', in Mark Hearn & Greg Patmore (eds.) Working the Nation, Working Life and Federation, 1890-1914 , Pluto Press 2001.
- 'Mates and Strangers: the ethos of the Australian Workers Union', in D.Palmer, R. Shanahan & M. Shanahan (eds.), Australian Labour History Reconsidered , Australian Humanities Press, Adelaide 1999.
Conference and Seminar papers
'Interpreting Postmodernity', Australian Historical Association conference, Armidale, 23-26 September 2007. Note: a pdf version of this paper is available by visiting www.interpretingpostmodernity.net
'Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place: Picnic at Hanging Rock and the fin de siècle Imagination in Australia', 'Histories on Wednesday' seminar presentation, Department of Modern History, Macquarie University 30 May 2007.
'Some Dreamlike Affinity: Reflections on Christopher Brennan's Two Lives in fin de siècle Australia, 1890-1914', School of History seminar series, University of New South Wales, 13 September 2006
'A Transnational Imagination: Alfred Deakin's Reading Lists', Transnational Lives/Biography Across Boundaries Conference, Australian National University Canberra 26-28 July 2006.
'Progress and Evolution: the Medical Profession and Liberal Governmentality in fin de siècle Australia, 1890-1914', Australian Historical Association conference, Australian National University Canberra 3-7 July 2006.
Other publications
- "Labor Maintains Spirit of AWAs", Canberra Times , 17 March 2008.
- 'Vitiating the Federal Principle: the High Court Work Choices case, 2006' (Historical Perspective on Current Issues), Labour History No.92 May 2007.
- 'The People have a right to be heard on IR reform', Canberra Times , 5 May 2006.
- 'The ALP should take on the IR laws' Mark Hearn and Grant Michelson , The Australian 7 April 2006.
- 'Rose Summerfield', entry for the supplementary volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography , Melbourne University Press 2005.
- 'Writing Trade Union History', Locality (Centre for Community History, University of New South Wales ), Vol. 9 No.2. 1998
- 'John Alexander Ferguson', entry for the Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol.14 1940-1980, Melbourne University Press 1996.
HIST109, The Making of Australia, Unit Convenor
http://online.mq.edu.au/public/HIST109/
HIST375, Interpreting Postmodernity, Unit Convenor (2008)
HIST 490, Modern Historiography, Unit Co-Convenor (2008)
Committee
Teaching and Learning Committee, Division of Humanities
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Modern History
Library Liaison, Department of Modern History
Convenor, 'Histories on Wednesday' seminar program, Department of Modern History
Undergraduate Studies Committee
Conferences
Convenor, 'Working Life, Enterprise and Arbitration' symposium for the Business and Labour History Group, School of Business University of Sydney, 10 November 2006.
Joint conference co-ordinator, 'Taking Care of Business? Historical Perspectives on Management Practice in the Twentieth Century', Women's College, University of Sydney Friday 5 November 2004.
Co-Convenor, 'Struggling for Recognition, the Individual in Labour History' conference and thematic edition of Labour History, no.87 November 2004.
Co-Convenor, 'Working Life and Federation', conference and edited collection supported by the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, 2000-1
Co-Convenor, 'Workplaces fit for Citizens? Workplace Democracy and the future of the labour movement', conference June 2001, sponsored by Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney and the Labor Council of New South Wales.
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