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| VALE: Professor Paul Bourke was one of Australia's most distinguished historians. He was Professor and Head of the Division of History of Historical Studies, Australian National University. A past president and long serving executive member of the Australian Historical Association, he was internationally known for his publications in the field of American Political History, and for his research on modes of evaluating research outcomes. He was an active supporter of the use of new information technologies by the historical profession, and in recent publications he sought critically to assess the historiographical implications of new information technologies. |
Dr. Hilary Carey is the author of books and articles in the fields of religious and womens' history. She has over ten years teaching experience at the universities of Sydney, Macquarie and Newcastle. Her recent teaching initiatives have included the establishment of an electronic discussion list for students and staff in Australian history, and the production of guides to internet resources in the humanities. She is a contributor to the Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History and a founding editor of H-ANZAU. Recent publications include: Believing in Australia: a Cultural History of Religions in Settler Society, 1788-1994 (Sydney, 1995) and editions (with David Roberts) of The Missionary Letters of J.G. Gunther and The Missionary Journal of J.C.S. Handt, 1832-40, Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, 1994.
Dr. Caroline Daley is a lecturer in New Zealand history at the University of Auckland. A recent graduate of Victoria University in Wellington, she specialises in women's and gender history, while also teaching more general courses on New Zealand's social history. A founding editor of H-ANZAU, she is also the book review editor of The New Zealand Journal of History and a member of the New Zealand committee of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. Her most recent publication was a co-edited volume with Melanie Nolan, Suffrage and Beyond: International Feminist Perspectives (Auckland, Annandale and New York, 1994).
Professor Richard Davis of the University of Tasmania is known internationally for his many books and articles on aspects of Australian and Irish history. He holds a Higher Diploma of Education from the University of Dublin (1960), has over twenty-five years teaching experience, and has published articles on university teaching techniques and the history of university education in Tasmania. He has encouraged students to explore new information technologies. Relevant publications include: "A Plea for the Use of Student Dialogues', Improving College and University Teaching, vol. 29, no. 4 (1981), 155-9, and 'University Teaching: a Modified Tutorial System', Vestes: the Australian Universities Review, vol. 21, 2 (1978), 47-50.
Professor Norman Etherington is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia, and President of the Australian Historical Association. He is known internationally for his books and articles on various aspects of the history of colonialism in Africa and the Pacific. Since his appointment to UWA in 1989 he has been responsible for innovations in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, notably with respect to the application of new information technologies. He is a founding editor of H-ANZAU. As President of the Australian Historical Association he has committed the Association to exploring how best information technologies might service the future teaching and research needs of the Australian historical profession.
Dr. P. J. Martyr received her Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia, and teaches the history and sociology of health care in the School of Nursing, University of Tasmania. She is a founding editor of H-ANZAU, and has keen interests in the historiographical implications of using new information technologies in history and humanities teaching. Her publications in this area include: 'SPINning the Web', Information Technology in Nursing, April 1997, pp. 8-9; 'Teaching a Bachelor of Nursing unit on-line: some experiences and results', Australian Electronic Journal of Nursing Education, 3(2), 1998, and 'The Philosopher's Stone: meditations upon on-line course delivery in the university', forthcoming, LASIE.
Dr Alan Mayne is an internationally recognised expert on comparative urban history, public health and the history of immigration. He has over fifteen years teaching experience at the University of Queensland, Cambridge and the University of Melbourne. He has pioneered the integration of computing and the use of new information technologies in history teaching. He is a staff member of H-Net and editor of H-Urban, H-Net's list for comparative study of urban history. He is also a founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History and now H-ANZAU. Among his current projects is the construction of a WWW-based resource for teaching Australian and urban history. Relevant publications and papers include: The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914 (Leicester, 1994 edn) and 'The Internet and the Historian' in E. Gow and J. Edwards, Cause '94 in Australasia: Information Resources Management in Australia (Bundoora, 1994), 186-96, and 'Time-Maps: Charting an Historic Inner Suburb', Association for History and Computing 8th Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, 19-21 April 1995.
Dr. Diane Menghetti is known internationally for her publications on the history of radical politics, mining and migrant history. She has over twenty-five years secondary and tertiary teaching experience. Prior to taking up a lectureship at James Cook University in 1988, she was Assistant Director, New Schools Unit, Commonwealth Schools Commission. Since 1988 she has directed the James Cook Oral History Project, an innovative program involving the collection and computerisation of oral evidence of life in North Queensland. She has integrated the use of computers and new information technologies within her teaching of Australian history and Heritage management. She is an editor of the Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, and a founding editor of H-ANZAU. Relevant publications and papers include: '"Rats in the Sugar": The Weil's Disease Strike of 1935', in D.J. Murphy (ed.), The Big Strikes: Queensland 1889-1965 (Brisbane, 1983); 'Health and Safety in a North Queensland Mining Town', First International Mining History Conference, Melbourne University, August 1985; Ravenswood: Five Heritage Trials (Townsville, 1992). In 1993 this book was nominated for the National Trust's John Herbert Award for an educational project.
Dr. Paul Turnbull has published numerous articles and short monographs in the fields of eighteenth-century British historiography and the history of physical anthropology. He has over fifteen years teaching experience at Macquarie and James Cook Universities. Since 1993 he has conducted classes for advanced and postgraduate students on computers and electronic information technologies in history teaching and research. He is also co-author of teaching modules for a new distance education MA in remote and rural health offered jointly by JCU and the University of Southern Queensland. He is a staff member of H-Net, the on-line Network for the Humanities and a founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History. He is currently editor of H-ANZAU, a international discussion list for the advancement of teaching and research in the fields of New Zealand and Australian History. Relevant publications and papers include: with Ian Clark and Henry Reynolds, Sharing Histories: Key Issues Paper No. 8 of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (Canberra: APGS, 1994); 'Australia and the Electronic Library: a Personal View', Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History, vol. I (1993). 'Clionet - Problems and Prospects for Australian Historians in Virtual Space', H-Net 1st Annual Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago in January 1995.
H-ANZAU EDITORIAL BOARD EMAIL ADDRESSES:
Hilary Carey, University of Newcastle
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mhihmc@cc.Newcastle.edu.au)
Caroline Daley, University of Auckland
( c.daley@auckland.ac.nz)
Richard Davis, University of Tasmania
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Richard.Davis@history.utas.edu.au)
Norman Etherington, University of Western Australia
( nether@uniwa.uwa.edu.au)
P J Martyr, University of Tasmania
(P.Martyr@utas.edu.au)
Alan Mayne, University of Melbourne
(
a.mayne@history.unimelb.edu.au).
Diane Menghetti, James Cook University
(
Diane.Menghetti@jcu.edu.au)
Paul Turnbull, Australian National University
(
Paul.Turnbull@jcu.edu.au)
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