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Associate Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington

B.Ed (Tas,1991)
DPhil (Oxon, 1995)

Office:	W6A 412
Phone:	+61 2 9850 8806
Fax:	+61 2 9850 6594
Email:	mhughesw@humn.mq.edu.au

 

I am by training a historiographer, someone who undertakes research on the nature and purposes of history. After completing an undergraduate degree that combined studies of history, philosophy and education, I was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to undertake doctoral research on R. G. Collingwood's philosophy of history at Merton College , Oxford University . After completing that project in 1995, I worked for the Collingwood Society as a manuscripts researcher, and then moved to the University of Washington in Seattle . In Seattle as with Oxford , I lectured on philosophy of the social sciences and educational research and worked on what became Fifty Key Thinkers on History (2000).

Since coming to Macquarie in 1998, I have pursued a wider research agenda, writing on world history, historical films, and now, the role of the state in Australian and British new idealist philosophies, and historical revisionism. Linking this varied range of projects together is an interest in exploring concepts and ways of making history that are often viewed as marginal in the discipline. I have delivered invited papers at international conferences in Washington DC , Morocco , Leipzig and Harvard and delivered the keynote address at the 16 th Annual World History Association conference in Wisconsin (2007). Since 2000 I have also given two keynote addresses at the national conference of the History Teachers' Association of Australia. I currently serve on the editorial boards of World History Connected, The Journal of Global History, New Global Studies and the Cambridge World History.

 

• Research
• Selected Publications
• Teaching
• Administration

 

Research

Research interests and areas of supervision:
modern historiography, with a focus on historical films, world histories, philosophical new idealism and the historiographies of R. G. Collingwood and Michael Oakeshott, and debates and disputes.

Current Research Projects and funding:

• The Empire of New Idealism? Civilisation and Australian New Idealism, 1850-1950 (ARC Discovery Grant, 2007-2010), in collaboration with: Dr Ian Tregenza (Department of Politics and International Relations), Professor David Boucher ( Cardiff University ), and Dr Stein Helgeby (Victorian Treasury).
  
  When Australia emerged as a nation in 1901, it had already found its own philosophical voice in the global community. That philosophy sought ideals of, above all, global freedom and unity. This project tracks the emergence of that voice after the introduction of 'British Idealist' philosophy in the mid-nineteenth century and seeks to illuminate its shaping role in public discussions and policy on Federation, citizenship and civilisation. The project's assessment of the impact of British philosophy in Australia , and then the reverse, aims to challenge the conventional portrayal of British Idealism as a 'colonising philosophy' and serve as the trigger for the globalisation of New Idealist studies.

 

• Historical Thinking in Higher Education (Carrick Discipline-Based Initiative), in collaboration with Emeritus Professor Jill Roe, Associate Professor Penny Russell ( Sydney ), Professor Mark Peel (Monash) and Dr Amanda Laugeson (Flinders).

This study takes the existing research on historical thinking in a new direction. It proposes a sector-wide scoping investigation of staff and student perceptions in higher education of the nature, development and social purposes of historical thinking. More specifically, it aims to map: variations and similarities in understandings by professional historians of the value of historical thinking and the educational means by which it may be best realised; how student perceptions of the nature, value and development of historical thinking compare with those of staff; and perceived challenges and opportunities for the development of historical thinking in higher education.

 

• Student Engagement: From Measurement to Enhancement (Macquarie Teaching Competive Grant), in collaboration with Dr Ian Solomonides, Angela Voerman, Antonina Harbus, Christiana Koehler, Edwin Lowe, Gianluca Alimeni, Lloyd Cox, Ronika Power, Todd Gillen, Robert Persson and Laura Sowden

This project seeks to foster student engagement through the development of quality enhancement processes and practices that aim to improve student engagement and satisfaction. Additionally, it seeks to promote a culture of professional learning and to draw students in to Faculty Learning and Teaching research activities.

By drawing staff and students together as co-investigators, it provides opportunities for students to develop their leadership skills and stresses the importance of collaboration in designing processes that serve to meet and broaden the expectations of students.

 

Selected Publications

Books

Under contract: History on Film Reader, with Routledge

History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007). ISBN 0415328284. Book Description History on Film is a clear, systematic, introductory guide to issues involved in using historical film in the study of history. Blending theoretical and methodological issues with lots of real examples, Marnie Huges-Warrington discusses such issues as: Do historical films necessarily make bad (or good) history? Can film be used as historical evidence? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama? Students of both history and film studies will find much here to challenge and interest them in the pursuit of their studies.
'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?': R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education ( Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2003). ISBN 0907895614. Book Description R.G. Collingwood's name is known to history educators around the world yet few have charted the depths of his ideas on what it means to be educated in history. In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the aspects of Collingwood's work best known to educators - re-enactment and the historical imagination - and locates them in the widening philosophical contexts of his and other writer's views on empathy, sympathy, imagination, education and civilisation. Revealed are dynamic concepts of the a priori imagination and history education that play a vital role in the achievement of an 'historical civilisation'. This is an end Collingwood wants all of us to achieve, thus making the question' How good an historian shall I be?' one of the most important we can ask.
Fifty Key Thinkers on History ( London : Routledge, 2000, second edition 2007). ISBN 041532076 . Available in Brazilian Portuguese as 50 Grandes Pensadores da Historia , trans. B. Honorato, Contexto, 2002. Book Description Fifty Key Thinkers on History is a superb guide to historiography through the ages. The cross-section of debates and thinkers covered is unique in its breadth, taking in figures from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages, to contemporary Europe, America, Africa and Australia. Various historians are covered from Herodotus to Fukuyama. Each clear and concise essay offers biographical information and a summary and discussion of the subject's approach to history and how others have engaged with it.

Edited Books (A3)

Palgrave Advances in World Histories ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). ISBN 1403912785. Book Description World histories vary widely in shape, structure, and range in space and time. In Palgrave Advances in World Histories, ten leading world historians examine the many forms of world history writing, offering an accessible, engaging and comprehensive overview of what it is and what world historians do. This work is a valuable introduction to those new to the field, but will also stimulate discussion, debate and reflection.

Book Chapters (B1)

• 'World Histories', Palgrave Advances in World Histories , ed. M. Hughes-Warrington ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 1-17.
  
  
• 'Shapes', Palgrave Advances in World Histories , ed. M. Hughes-Warrington ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) pp. 112-134.
  
  
• 'Readers, Palgrave Advances in World Histories , ed. M. Hughes-Warrington ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) pp. 215-38.
  
  
• Tolerating the Alien: Empathy in History Education', in Values in Education and Cultural Diversity , volume one: Values, the Classroom and Cultural Diversity, eds M. Leicester, and C. and S. Modgil ( London : Falmer, 2000), pp. 1-31.

Refereed Journal Articles (C1)

• 'Coloring Universal History: Robert Benjamin Lewis's Light and Truth (1843) and William Wells Brown's The Black Man (1863)', in press with Journal of World History

• 'The "Ins" and "Outs" of History: Revision as Non-Place', History and Theory, 46(4), 2007, pp. 61-76

• 'State and Civilisation in Australian New Idealism' (with Ian Tregenza), in press with History of Political Thought
  
  
• 'World History, and World Histories', World History Connected , 4(2), 2006, online at http://www.worldhistoryconnected.uiup.edu .
  
  
• 'World Histor(iograph)y Education from an Australian Angle', Comparativ: Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung , 5(1) 2006: pp. 1-22.
  
  
• 'Big History', Social Evolution and History [ Russia ], 4(1), 2005: pp. 7-21.
  
  
• 'Collingwood and the Early Hirst on the Forms of Experience/Knowledge and Education', British Journal of Educational Studies , 45(2), 1997: pp. 156-73.
  
  
• 'History Education and the Conversation of Mankind', Collingwood Studies , 3, 1996: pp. 96-116.
  
• How Good an Historian Shall I Be?: R. G. Collingwood on Education', Oxford Review of Education , 22(2), 1996: pp. 217-34.
  
  
• 'Rethinking Collingwood: A Reply to Keith Jenkins's Rethinking History ', in Teaching History [ UK ], 80, 1995: pp. 5-9.

Journal Articles (non-refereed, C3)

• 'Postmodernism and Poststructuralism', Teaching History [ Australia ], December 2004: pp. 6-12.
  
  
• 'Visions of History: Film in History Education', Teaching History [ Australia ], December 2003: pp. 4-10.
  
  
• 'Marking Historiography', Teaching History [ Australia ], March 2002: pp. 2-5.
  
  
• Leni Riefenstahl: A Life in Black and White?', Teaching History [ Australia ], September 2000: pp. 32-5.

Other (K1 and K2 )

• 'World History', Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World , New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  
  
• 'World History', in Companion to Women's Historical Writing , eds M. Spongberg, B. Caine and A. Curthoys, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, pp. 611-7.
  
  
• 'Writing World History', The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History , 2005, vol. 5, pp. 2095-2103.
  
  
• 'Postmodernism', The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History , 2005, vol. 4, pp. 1505-7.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Units
HIST115: An Introduction to World History
HIST243/366: History on Film
HIST359: World Histories
HIST480-99: Debates in Modern Historiography (with Hsu-Ming Teo)

Postgraduate Units
MHPG847: Rewriting History (with Hsu-Ming Teo)
MHPG848: Introduction to Modern Historiography
MHPG856: The World Since 1750
MHPG912: World Historians

 

Administration

Deputy Head of Department
Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, Division of Humanities
Erasmus Mundus MA in Global Studies Macquarie Representative
Deputy Director, Centre for Media History

Committees
Chair, Macquarie University Learning and Teaching Committee
Macquarie University Research Grants Committee
Undergraduate Committee, Department of Modern History

 

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