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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
Australian Military History from 1788 to the present
Introduction to Strategy
Research Interests / Projects
Australian history
Australian military history
British Empire and Commonwealth military history
Frontier and colonial warfare
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:
‘Humanitarian intervention and domestic politics: the Australian decisions regarding participation in peacekeeping missions in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia, Somalia and Rwanda’ in David Horner, Peter Londey & Jean Bou (eds),
Australian Peacekeeping, 1947-2007 (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, forthcoming 2008).
‘Aboriginal Traditional Warfare’ and ‘Frontier Wars’
in Peter Dennis & Jeffrey Grey (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2nd ed. forthcoming 2008)
‘James Whiteside McCay’ in Aidan Clarke et al. (eds.),
Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
‘Eyewitness to war: George Augustus Robinson and frontier conflict’ in Anna Johnson & Mitchell Rolls (ed.), The Friendly Mission Companion (Hobart, Quintus Publishing, forthcoming)
‘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)
‘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
‘Defence Policy 1870-1914’ (with Stephen Clarke),
‘Defence Policy 1919-1939’, ‘Mediterranean and North Africa 1939-45’ and ‘Frontier Conflict in Australia’ in Joan Beaumont (ed.), Australian Defence: Sources and Statistics (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2001)
pp. 17-22, 286-90, 369-72
‘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
- Australian history
- Military history – especially comparing Australia to United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa
- British and Irish history