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Professional Background
Senior lecturer in history, UNSW@ADFA, 2007-
Senior historian, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2004-7
Lecturer in history, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College, London, 2003-4
Courses Taught
British Empire at War 1756-1967
Australian Military History from 1788 to the present
Introduction to Strategy
Research Interests / Projects
British Empire and the First World War
Frontier and colonial warfare
British Empire and Commonwealth military history
Australian military history
Australian history
Peacekeeping – volume author for Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
Publications
Books:
The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838 (UNSW Press, Sydney, rev. ed. 2005, 1st pub. 2002) Carl Bridge, John Connor & David O’Reilly (eds.), Bradman: Insights at Lord’s (Menzies Centre
for Australian Studies, London, 2004)
Selected articles:
‘James Whiteside McCay’ in James McGuire (gen. ed.), Dictionary of Irish Biography (7 vols, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2009)
‘The Empire's War Recalled: Recent Writing on the Western Front Experience of Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies’, History Compass, 7, 2009
‘Intervention and Domestic Politics’ in David Horner et al (eds), Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field (Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 60-83
‘Aboriginal Traditional Warfare’ and ‘Frontier Wars’ in Peter Dennis et al (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (OUP, 2nd ed. 2008) pp. 1-3, 216-22
‘Recording the Human Face of War: Robinson and Frontier conflict’ in Anna Johnson & Mitchell Rolls (eds), Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission (Hobart, Quintus Publishing, 2008) pp. 171-80
‘Australian Frontier Wars’, ‘Australian-German Relations’, ‘Australian-Japanese Relations’, ‘Immigration Restriction’
and ‘Imperial Conferences’ in Carl Hodge (ed.), The Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (2 vols, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Connecticut, 2008) Vol. 1, pp. 55-58, 58-59, 336-38, 338-39
‘Sea power and peace operations: the naval contribution to UNITAF, Somalia, 1992-93’ in David Stevens & John Reeve (eds), Sea power ashore and in the air (Halstead Press, Sydney, 2007) pp. 236-47
‘The Tasmanian frontier and military history’,
Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004, pp. 89-99
‘Charles Frederick Cox’ in Anne Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate (Melbourne University Press, 2004) Vol. 2, pp. 390-93
‘Robert Emmett Winning’ in John Ritchie & Diane Langmore (eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press, 2002) Vol. 16, pp. 569-70
‘British frontier warfare logistics and the “Black Line”,
Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) 1830’, War in History,
Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2002, pp. 143-58
‘Australian Frontier Wars’ and ‘New Zealand Maori Wars’
in Charles Messenger (ed.), Readers’ Guide to Military History (Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001) pp. 40-41, 446-47
‘Some examples of Irish enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force, 1914’, The Irish Sword, Vol. XXI, No. 83, 1998, pp. 85-92
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- British Empire and the First World War
- British Empire frontier and colonial warfare
- Australian military history
- Australian history