DR YVES REES

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS Lecturer (Level B) in History, , 2020 – David Myers Research Fellow (Level B) in History, La Trobe University, 2017 – 2020. Lecturer, Australian History, University of Sydney Summer School, 2017. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow (Level A), Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney, 2016. Tutor and Guest Lecturer, School of History, Australian National University, 2012 – 2015. Visiting Researcher, Center for Australian and National Zealand Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2013. EDUCATION PhD, History, Australian National University, 2016. Thesis: “Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women in the United States, 1910-1960,” (supervised by Prof. Angela Woollacott) Master of Arts (Distinction), History, University College London, 2011. Thesis: “The Australian Body in Interwar London (supervised by Prof. Catherine Hall) Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), University of , 2009. WORKS IN PROGRESS Yves Rees, Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women and the American Century (contracted with Nebraska University Press). Yves Rees, “Thinking Capitalism from the Bedroom: The Politics of Location and The Uses of (Queer, Crip, Feminist) Theory,” invited contribution to special issue of Labour History, forthcoming 2021. Yves Rees, “Alternatives to Growthmanship: Consumerist Developmentalism in Postwar International Thought,” manuscript under preparation for the Journal of Contemporary History. Yves Rees and Ben Huf, “Training Historians for Urgent Times,” under review with History Australia (for “History in Urgent Times” forum, edited by Yves Rees and Ben Huf, forthcoming 2020). Ben Huf, Yves Rees et al, “Capitalism in Australia: New Histories for a Reimagined Future,” Thesis Eleven (accepted; forthcoming 2020). BOOKS Anna Clark, Anne Rees and Alecia Simmonds, eds., Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History (London: Palgrave, 2017). ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Yves Rees, “From Socialists to Technocrats: The Depoliticisation of Australian Economics,” Australian Historical Studies (Histories of Capitalism special issue), 50, no. 4 (2019): 463-82. Yves Rees, “Sojourns: A New Category of Female Mobility,” Gender & History 31, no 3. (2019). Yves Rees, “Moving on Up: Economic Opportunism, Transpacific Mobility and Non-Elite Transnationalism,” Journal of Australian Studies 43, no. 4 (2019): 464-78. Anne Rees, “‘Treated Like Chinamen’: United States Immigration Restriction and White British Subjects, 1921-1939,” Journal of Global History 14, no. 2 (2019): 239-60. Yves Rees, “Making Waves across the Pacific: Women, Radio Broadcasting and Australian-U.S. Connections,” Feminist Media Histories 5, no. 3 (2019): 85-113. Anne Rees, “A War of Card Indexes: From Political Economy to Economic Science,” World War One, the Universities and the Professions in Australia, 1914-1939, eds. Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne (Melbourne University Press, 2019). Anne Rees, “‘A Season in Hell’: Australian Women, Modernity and the Hustle of New York, 1910-1960,” Pacific Historical Review 86, no. 4 (2017): 632-60. Anne Rees, “Reading Australian Modernity: Unsettled Settlers and Cultures of Mobility,” History Compass 15, no. 11 (2017): 1-13. Anne Rees, “Lessons from Australia: Persia Campbell and the International Afterlives of Federation-Era Welfarism,” Australian Historical Studies 48, no. 4 (2017): 519-35. Anne Rees, “Rebel Handmaidens: Transpacific Histories and the Limits of Transnationalism,” in Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History, edited by Anna Clark, Alecia Simmonds and Anne Rees, 49-67 (London: Palgrave, 2017). Alecia Simmonds, Anne Rees & Anna Clark, “Testing the Boundaries: Reflections on Transnationalism in Australian History,” in Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History, eds. Anna Clark, Alecia Simmonds and Anne Rees, 1-14 (Palgrave, 2017). Anne Rees, “Stepping through the Silver Screen: Australian Women in the United States, 1920s-1950s,” Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 17, no. 2 (2016): 49-73. Anne Rees, “‘Bursting with New Ideas’: Australian Women Professionals and American Study Tours, 1930- 1960,” History Australia 13, no. 3 (2016): 382-98. Anne Rees, “‘Australians who come over here are apt to consider themselves quite large people’: The Body and Australian Identity in Interwar London,” Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 3 (2013): 405-22. Anne Rees, “‘The quality and not only the quantity of Australia’s people’: Ruby Rich and the Racial Hygiene Association of NSW,” Australian Feminist Studies 27, no. 71 (2012): 71-92. Anne Rees, “Mary Cecil Allen: Modernism and Modernity in Melbourne, 1935-1960,” emaj: Electronic Melbourne Art Journal, no. 5 (2010): 1-35. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Yves Rees, Review of Alana Piper and Ana Stevenson, eds, Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash, 2019), Law & History (forthcoming 2020). Yves Rees, Review of Fiona Paisley and Pamela Scully, Writing Transnational History (Bloomsbury, 2019), History Australia (forthcoming 2020). Anne Rees, Review of Hidetoka Hirota, Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford, 2017), Australasian Journal of American Studies 38, no. 1 (2019): 130- 33. Anne Rees, Review of Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist, eds, Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia (Illinois, 2018), Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 2 (2019): 279-80. Anne Rees, “A problem in the shape of a river,” [Review of Ian Tyrrell, River Dreams: The People and Landscape of the Cooks River (NewSouth, 2018)], History Australia 16, no. 1 (2019): 232-34. Anne Rees, “Letham, Isabel Ramsay (1899-1995),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, published online 2019. Katherine Ellinghaus, Nikki Henningham, Andy Kaladelfos, Alana Piper, Laura Rademaker, Anne Rees, Jordana Silverstein, Mary Tomsic, Naomi Wolfe, ‘It destroyed my research career’: survey of sexual and gender- based discrimination and abuse in Australian Academia, Australian Women’s History Network, July 2018. Cited in Overland, Times Higher Ed & SMH. Anne Rees, Review of Stuart Macintyre, Jenny Gregory and Lenore Layman, eds, A Historian for All Season: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton (Monash, 2017), Australian Historical Studies 49, no. 2 (2018): 263-64. Anne Rees, Review of Claire Midgley, Alison Twells, Julie Carter, eds, Women in Transnational History: Connecting the Local and Global (Routledge, 2016), European History Quarterly 47 no. 2 (2017): 369-71. Anne Rees, Review of Sarah Graham, Culture and Propaganda: The Progressive Origins of American Public Diplomacy, 1936-1953 (Routledge, 2015), Australasian Journal of American Studies 35, no. 2 (2016): 132-35. Anne Rees, “Browne, Coral Edith (1913–1991),” Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, published online 2015. Anne Rees, Review of Emma Robinson-Tomsett, Women, Travel and Identity: Journeys by Rail and Sea, 1870-1940 (Manchester, 2013), Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 21 (2015): 106-08. Catherine Bishop and Anne Rees, Editorial, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 19 (2013): 1-2. FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS 2

Shortlisted for the Australia Prize for a Future Leader, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), 2019. Workshop Grant, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, $9000, 2019. Serle Award for Best PhD Thesis in Australian History, Australian Historical Association, 2018. Collaboration Ready Grant, La Trobe University, $10,000, 2018. ECR Development Project Grant, La Trobe University, $8000, 2018. Humanities Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of Humanities, $2500, 2017. David Myers Research Fellowship, La Trobe University, Level B academic appointment plus $20,000 in research funding, 2017-2021. Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellowship, Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney, 2016. Australian National University Vice Chancellor’s Travel Grant, $1000, 2015. AHA/CAL Travel and Writing Bursary, Australian Historical Association, $700, 2014. Postgraduate Travel Bursary, Australian & New Zealand American Studies Association, $400, 2014. Australian National University Gender Institute Signature Event Grant, $8000, 2014. Endeavour Research Fellowship, Australian federal government, $20,000, 2013. Australian Postgraduate Award, Australian federal government, $26,000 per annum, 2012 – 2016. Research Excellence Award, Australian National University Gender Institute, 2012. Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize, Australian Historical Studies, 2012. Alumni Association MA Prize, University College London, 2011. Gay Clifford Award for Outstanding Woman Student, University College London, 2010. Summer Research Scholarship, Australian National University, 2009 – 2010. R.G. Wilson Scholarship for Best Arts Honours, , 2009. Dwight Prize for Best History Honours, University of Melbourne, 2009. Jessie Mary Vasey Prize for Thesis in Women’s History, University of Melbourne, 2009. Dean’s List Award, University of Melbourne, 2006, 2007 and 2009. May Dunn Scholarship, Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, 2007. D.F. Mackay Prize for Modern British History, University of Melbourne, 2007. Marion Boothby Exhibition for British History, University of Melbourne, 2007. Entrance Scholarship, Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, 2006. PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT & MEDIA Yves Rees, “The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it,” The Conversation, 10 January 2020. Archive Fever podcast live recording, Queering the Archive, Wheeler Centre, 28 November 2019. Co-Creator and Host (with A/Prof. Clare Wright), Archive Fever podcast, Season 1 (8 episodes) launched September 2019, featuring Tony Birch, Billy Griffiths, Paul Daley, Jock Serong, Chloe Hooper, Rachel Buchanan and Gwenda Tavan. Season 2 under development, forthcoming 2020. Yves Rees, “Blood will Tell,” Archer Magazine, 26 November 2019. Panellist on News Therapy, Drive with Ali Moore, ABC Radio Melbourne, 11 October 2019. Melbourne Postcard, ABC Radio Melbourne, 11 October 2019. Yves Rees, “Who’s afraid of transgender cricket?” Overland, 22 August 2019. Panellist on News Therapy, Drive with Raf Epstein, ABC Radio Melbourne, 9 August 2019. Comment on Breakfast with Raf Epstein, ABC Radio Melbourne, 18 June 2019. Panellist on News Therapy, Drive with Raf Epstein, ABC Radio Melbourne, 14 June 2019. Yves Rees, “Trans and gender diverse inclusion in academia; or, why we need to get better at pronouns,” Australian Historical Association ECR Blog, 20 May 2019. Contributor, “A Conversation About Casualisation,” Australian Historical Association ECR Blog, 3 May 2019. Co-Host, Anzac Day Dawn Service Broadcast, ABC radio Melbourne, 25 April 2019.

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Monthly Guest on Myf Warhurst midday program, ABC local radio (nationwide): 27 February, 27 March, 23 April, 4 June, 6 August, 8 October, 30 October. Interviewed about Australian women in the US on ABC Radio Overnights, 18 March 2019. Anne Rees, “The pioneering envoy who ‘waged war’ on Canberra,” Inside Story, 8 March 2019. Anne Rees, “An Australian in silent Hollywood,” Inside Story, 8 March 2019. Interviewed by Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck on Breakfast, ABC Radio Sydney, 8 March 2019. Featured Historian, “The Glide,” Shooting the Past, Season 2, ABC Radio National, 26 February 2019. (associated article published on ABC Online, 5 March 2019) Anne Rees, “Isabel Letham, daring Australian surf pioneer,” The Conversation, 25 February 2019. Anne Rees, “Australia’s innovative economic history in focus,” episode 5, Research in Focus podcast, 1 February 2019. “Ask an Americanist: Dr Yves Rees,” Australian & NZ American Studies Association Blog, 26 Nov 2018. Interviewed for Nightlife, ABC Radio National, 17 September 2018. Katherine Ellinghaus, Nikki Henningham, Andy Kaladelfos, Alana Piper, Laura Rademaker, Anne Rees, Jordana Silverstein, Mary Tomsic, Naomi Wolfe, “Sexual abuse, harassment and discrimination ‘rife’ among Australian academics,” The Conversation, 2 July 2018 Interviewed on The Drum, ABC Television, 29 June 2018. Interviewed on Uncommon Sense, Triple R Radio, 19 June 2018. Anne Rees, “The Australian women expats who found liberation in the US,” ABC Online, 14 June 2018. Website Developer, “A Seat at the Table: Australian Women in Global Governance,” Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney, 2016 – present. Anne Rees, “US once locked up white Australian immigrants in ‘horror’ camps akin to Manus and Nauru,” The Guardian, 20 November 2017. Anne Rees, “When the US locked up white Australian immigrants like Australia does to asylum seekers,” The Conversation, 20 November 2017. Anne Rees, “The story behind Australia’s first female judge,” interview on ABC Radio Brisbane, 11 October 2017. Anne Rees, “Meet the woman who can lay claim to being Australia’s first female judge,” The Conversation, 24 Aug 2017. Anne Rees, “Persia Campbell, our woman at the UN,” Australian Women’s History Network Blog, 15 March 2017. Anne Rees, “How women historians smashed the glass ceiling,” The Conversation, 19 October 2016. Anne Rees, “A different view of women: Mentors, Australian women professionals and the United States,” Australian Women’s History Network Blog, 29 September 2016. Interviewed about Ruby Rich on ABC Radio Canberra, August 2013. Curatorial Assistant, “A Wild Flight of the Imagination: The Story of the Golden Gate Bridge,” California Historical Society, San Francisco, 2011 – 2012. INVITED TALKS Invited panellist, Research Translation, Humanities and Social Sciences HDR Conference, La Trobe University, 28 and 29 October 2019. Invited presented, “‘Treated Like Chinamen’: US Immigration Restriction and White British Subjects,” Monash History Seminar, 13 September 2019. Invited panellist, “1919 and the Invention of Economic Technocracy,” Remembering 1919 and the Origins of the International Economic Order, University of Sydney, 16 July 2019. Invited presenter, “Writing for Non-Academic Audiences,” AHA/CAL Bursary Workshop, Australian Historical Association Conference, Toowoomba, July 2019. Invited panellist, “Work/Life Balance”, “CVs” and “Postdocs”, MENTOR Workshop, Laureate Research Program in International History, University of Sydney, December 2018. Invited presenter, “Sojourns: A New Category of Female Mobility,” Melbourne Feminist History Group, September 2018, University of Melbourne. Invited presenter, “Moving on Up: Economic Migration and Australia in the World,” Scaling Australia Seminar Series, April 2018, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Kings College London. 4

Invited participant, “The Professionalisation of Economics in Interwar Australia,” World War I, the Universities and the Professions Workshop, October 2017, University of Melbourne. Invited participant, “Making Waves Across the Pacific: Women, Radio and Australian-US Connections,” Gender and Transnational Broadcasting Workshop, July 2017, University of Bournemouth. Invited to launch Sophie Loy-Wilson, Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China (Routledge, 2017), May 2017, University of Sydney. Invited presenter, “‘Treated Like Lascars’: United States Immigration Restriction and White Men’s Countries, 1921-1939,” History Brown Bag Seminar, May 2017, University of Melbourne. Invited presenter, “Fusty Britisher places: Australian women, travel and imperial ties,” Australian Studies Research Network, May 2014, University of Western Sydney. Invited participant, “Ellis Island in the Pacific: Encountering America in Hawaii, 1920s-1950s,” Pacific Travel in the Middlebrow Imagination Symposium, November 2013, James Cook University. Invited presenter, “Using transnational lives to entangle nations: Australian women in the United States,” Rethinking Transnational History Workshop, October 2013, Australian National University. Invited lecturer, Inaugural Earle Hoffman Memorial Lecture, Australian Jewish Historical Society, July 2013, National Jewish Memorial Centre, Canberra. CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Invited presenter, “Expertise Imported: Australian Economists and American Models,” Economic Knowledge and the State Workshop, Australian National University, 13-14 December 2019. Invited participant, ECR Knowledge Frontiers Forum, British Academy and Australian Academy of Humanities, Brisbane, 11-12 November 2019. Invited presenter, “Thinking Capitalism from the Bedroom: The Politics of Location and the Uses of (Feminist, Queer, Crip) Theory,” History of Capitalism Workshop, University of Technology, Sydney, 19 September 2019. Invited panellist, Panel on The First World, the Universities and the Professions (MUP, 2019), Australian Historical Association Conference, Toowoomba, July 2019. Invited panellist, “Reflections on ’s Progressive New World (Harvard, 2019),” Australian Historical Association Conference, Toowoomba, July 2019. Presenter, “Bridging the Cultural-Economic Divide: Histories of Economic Emigration and Economistic Governance,” Capitalism in Australian: New Histories for a Reimagined Future, Closed Workshop, November 2018, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Panel organiser and presenter, “The ‘Consumer-Minded’ Economist: Persia Campbell and Consumerist Developmentalism,” in “A Seat at the Table: Australian Women in Global Governance,” International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference, August 2018, Vancouver. Presenter, “From Socialists to Technocrats: The Depoliticisation of Australian Economics,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2018, Australian National University. Presenter, “Sojourns: A New Category of Female Mobility,” Migration and Gender Symposium, April 2018, University of Bristol, UK. Presenter, “‘Treated Like Lascars’: United States Immigration Restriction and White Men’s Countries, 1921- 1939,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, June 2017, Arlington, VA. Presenter, “The Limits of Blood Brotherhood: US Immigration Restriction and Australian-US Relations, 1921-1940,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2016, Federation University. Presenter, “The ‘Consumer-Minded’ Internationalist: Persia Campbell, International Development, and Standards of Living,” Scales of Economy Workshop, July 2016, University of Sydney. Organiser and presenter, Individuals in International History Workshop, June 2016, University of Sydney. Panel organiser and presenter, “‘A Woman’s Paradise’: Australian Women and American Gender Relations, 1920s-1950s,” in “Oceans of Opportunity: Women’s Mobility in the Early Twentieth Century Pacific World,” American Historical Association Conference, January 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Presenter, “An Education in Race: Australian Women encounter Jim Crow, 1940-60,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2015, University of Sydney.

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Presenter, “‘A Season in Hell’: Australian Women and the Hustle of New York, 1910s-50s,” Postgraduate and Early Career Symposium, December 2014, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney (named one of the best papers and solicited for publication in the Australasian Journal of American Studies). Presenter, “‘Bursting with new ideas’: Australian women professionals and American study tours, 1930s-50s,” Australian Women’s History Network Symposium, July 2014, University of Queensland. Presenter, ‘“A Woman’s Paradise’: Australian Women and American Gender Relations,” Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, February 2014, University of Otago. Presenter, “Good Britons Abroad: Britishness and Australian Women in America, 1920s-1950s,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2013, University of Wollongong. Presenter, “At Liberty: Australian Women in the United States,” Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America Conference, February 2013, Georgetown University. Presenter, “Stepping through the Silver Screen: Australian Women Encounter America, 1930s-50s,” Travel Ideals Conference, July 2012, University of Melbourne. Presenter, “The Body and Australian Identity in Interwar London,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2012, University of Adelaide (Ken Inglis Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper). Presenter, “‘The quality and not only the quantity of Australia’s people’: Ruby Rich and the Racial Hygiene Association,” Australian Historical Association Conference, July 2010, University of Western Australia. LEADERSHIP & SERVICE Co-Convenor, Confronting White Victimhood: Past, Present and Future symposium, La Trobe University, July 2020. History Program Honours Coordinator, La Trobe University, 2020. Co-Convenor, Economic Knowledge and the State, two-day workshop, Australian National University, 12-14 December 2019. Invited member, Planetary Modernisms Research Group (convened by Ass. Prof. Victoria Kuttainen, James Cook University), October 2019 – present. Co-Convenor, Capitalism in Australia HDR Winter School, University of Sydney, 15-17 July 2019. Australian Research Council Assessor, 2019 – present. Member, Gender Inclusive Systems Working Group, La Trobe University, 2019. LGBT consultation, Induction Review, La Trobe University, 2019. Member, FutureFest Organising Committee, La Trobe University, 2019. Co-Convenor, Melbourne Feminist History Group, 2019 – present. Peer Support Group Facilitator, Transgender Victoria, 2019 – present. Co-Convenor, Capitalism in Australia: New Histories for a Reimagined Future, closed two-day workshop, La Trobe University, November 2018. Member, Australian Women’s History Network, Sexual Harassment Working Group, 2018. Peer reviewer, History Compass, Australian Historical Studies, History Australia and Journal of Australian Studies, 2018 – present. Convenor, State of the Discipline History Reading Group, La Trobe University, 2017 – present. Founder and Convenor, Melbourne ECR Writing Group, 2017 – present. History Tutor, Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, University of Sydney, 2016. Co-Convenor, “Flesh and Blood: A Feminist Symposium on Embodied Histories,” ANU, May 2015. Graduate Representative, History Education Committee, Australian National University, 2014. Postgraduate Representative, Australian Historical Association National Executive, 2012 – 2014. Member of Advisory Board, “The Transported Imagination: Australasian-Pacific Travel & Mobility in Interwar Magazines,” James Cook University, 2013 – 2017. Member of Editorial Collective, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 2012 – 2015. General Representative, Postgraduate Student Association, Australian National University, 2012. Reviewer and Editor, History in the Making Journal, 2012 – 2016. SUPERVISION

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Supervisor, Patrick Constable, Honours, “The White Australia Policy and Immigration Restriction,” 2018. Principal Supervisor, Averyl Gaylor, PhD, “‘The Body at its Best’: European Modern Dance and Medical Ideals in Twentieth Century Australia,” 2018 – present. Associate Supervisor, Jack Fahey, PhD, “‘Yankee Exploiters Through and Through’: Public Reactions to American Power in Modern Australia,” 2018 – present. Associate Supervisor, Thomas Munyaneza, PhD, “Perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi: Local Histories and Local Population in Gisenyi Prefecture, Rwanda,” 2017 – 2019 (awarded Nancy Millis Medal for Outstanding Thesis). Associate Supervisor, Holly Wilson, PhD, “Exploring U.S. Bases in Italy, Post-WWII,” 2017 –2018. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Getting Research into Policy and Practice workshop, University of Queensland, 13 November 2019. ALLY Training, Rainbow Health Victoria, 3 October 2019. La Trobe Fellowship Support Program, August 2019 – March 2020. Introduction to Podcasting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 13 April 2019. Introduction to Graduate Research Supervision, La Trobe University, 28 February 2019. Research Leadership Mentoring Program, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, University of Melbourne, convened by Prof. Joy Damousi, 11-15 February 2019. MENTOR Workshop, Laureate Research Program in International History. University of Sydney, December 2018. REFEREES Professor Angela Woollacott Professor Glenda Sluga Manning Clark Professor of History Professor of International History Australian National University University of Sydney [email protected] [email protected]

Professor Fiona Paisley Professor Clare Wright Professor of History ARC Future Fellow Griffith University La Trobe University [email protected] [email protected]

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