Professor Elizabeth Malcolm : History : The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies : The Faculty of Arts : The University of Melbourne

Professor Elizabeth Malcolm

Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies

Telephone:: (+61 3) 8344 3924
Email:: e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au
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Biography

Academic Qualifications: BA Hons (University of NSW, Sydney); MA Hons (University of Sydney); PhD (University of Dublin, Trinity College).
Academic Fellowships: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS); Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA).
Previous Full-Time Academic Positions: University of NSW, Australia; University of Trondheim, Norway; University of Tromsø, Norway; Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland; University of Liverpool, UK.
Current Offices: President, Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ); co-editor, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies.

Research

Interests: Irish social history, in particular: temperance, drink and pubs; popular culture; asylums and mental illness; hospitals and disease; crime and policing; violence and memory; women's and gender history; and migration; plus Irish historiography and the development of Irish Studies.
Projects: Two large Australian Research Council-funded research projects, both of which involve study of the history of psychiatric institutions in Australia. One grant is held in partnership with Museum Victoria.

Selected Publications

Books/Reports

The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: a Life, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006, 266pp.
Edited with C.H. Mahony, L. Izarra, J.P. Harrington and O. Pliny, The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum, Prague: Charles University Press, 2006, 151pp.
Edited with G. Jones, Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940, Cork: Cork University Press, 1999, 278pp.
Elderly Return Migration from Britain to Ireland: a Preliminary Study, Dublin: National Council for the Elderly, Report No. 44, 1996, 119pp.
Swift's Hospital: a History of St Patrick's Hospital, Dublin, 1746-1989, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989, 384pp.
'Ireland Sober, Ireland Free': Drink and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986, 363pp.

Articles/Chapters

In Press

E. Malcolm, 'A New Age or Just the Same Old Cycle of Extirpation? Massacre and the 1798 Irish Rebellion', Journal of Genocide Research, 13 (2011).
E. Malcolm, '"Our Fevered Past": Irish Immigrants in a Colonial Lunatic Asylum during the Australian Gold Rushes, 1848-69' in Pauline Prior (ed.), Irish Mental Health Care: Historical Essays, Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
E. Malcolm, 'Between Habitual Drunkards and Alcoholics: Inebriate Women and Reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919' in Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh and Margaret Preston (eds), Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland, the United States and Australia, 1800-1950, New York: Syracuse University Press.
E. Malcolm, 'Mental Health and Migration: the Case of the Irish, 1850s-1990s' in Angela McCarthy (ed.), Mental Health and Migration, London: Routledge.

Published

E. Malcolm and D. Hall, '"The Rebels Turkish Tyranny": Understanding Sexual Violence in Ireland during the 1640s', Gender and History, 22, 1 (April 2010), 55-74.
E. Malcolm, Review Article: 'Psychiatry in Colonial Australia: Mad Women and their Attendants in Victoria's Asylums, 1848-88', History of Psychiatry, 21, 1 (March 2010), 96-101.
E. Malcolm, 'Australian Asylum Architecture through German Eyes: Kew, Melbourne, 1867', Health and History, 11, 1 (2009), 46-64.
E. Malcolm and D. Hall, '"Beyond the Pale": Gender and Violence in Ireland, 1169-1603' in Jost Dülffer and Robert Frank (eds), Peace, War and Gender from Antiquity to the Present: Cross Cultural Perspectives, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2009, 155-67.
E. Malcolm and D. Hall, 'Diaspora, Gender and the Irish', Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 8 (2008/9), 3-29.
E. Malcolm, 'Retrospective: "On Fire": Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger (1962)', New Hibernia Review, 12, 4 (Winter 2008), 143-9.
E. Malcolm and D. Hall, 'Gender, Hybridity and Violence on the Frontiers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland' in Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock (eds), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, 2008, 77-98.
E. Malcolm, 'Patrick O'Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-93', Journal of Religious History, 31, 1 (March 2007), 24-39.
E. Malcolm, '10,000 Miles Away: Irish Studies Down Under' in Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan (eds), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the 21st Century, London: Pluto Press, 2006, 32-45.
E. Malcolm, Review Article: 'Plundering History in Support of Theory: Luke Gibbons, Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, and Irish Culture (2004)', Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 5 (2005), 158-64.
E. Malcolm, 'Teaching Irish Spaces in Different Times and Places: Reflections of a Peripatetic Irish Historian' in Yvonne Whelan, Liam Harte and Patrick Crotty (eds), Ireland: Space, Text and Time, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2005, 79-92.
E. Malcolm, '"What would people say if I became a policeman?" (Ned Kelly) The Irish Policeman Abroad' in Oonagh Walsh (ed.), Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003, 95-107.
E. Malcolm, '"Ireland's Crowded Madhouses": the Institutional Confinement of the Insane in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland' in Roy Porter and David Wright (eds), The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 315-33.
E. Malcolm, '"A Most Miserable Looking Object": the Irish in English Asylums, 1851-1901: Migration, Poverty and Prejudice' in John Belchem and Klaus Tenfelde (eds), Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2003, 115-26.
E. Malcolm, Review Article: 'Religion and Identity in the UK and the USA: Turn-of-the-Century Perspectives', Journal of Contemporary History, 38, 4 (October 2003), 647-57.
E. Malcolm, 'Investigating the "Machinery of Murder": Irish Detectives and Agrarian Outrage, 1847-70', New Hibernia Review, 6, 3 (Fall 2002), 73-91.
E. Malcolm, 'Hospitals in Ireland' in Angela Bourke et al (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Volume V. Women's Writing and Traditions, Cork and New York: Cork University Press and New York University Press, 2002, 705-21.
E. Malcolm, '"The Reign of Terror in Carlow": the Politics of Policing Ireland in the Late 1830s', Irish Historical Studies, xxxii, 125 (May 2000), 59-74.

Teaching

Current Irish undergraduate subjects are:

HIST20035 Modern and Contemporary Ireland since 1790 (2nd year)
HIST30048 Ireland Down Under (3rd year)
HIST40008 Memory and Violence in Ireland (4th year Hons)

Supervision

Theses on Irish history and on the Irish in Australia can be undertaken as resources for the study of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora are plentiful in Melbourne, and Elizabeth can supervise a broad range of topics. She is also happy to supervise topics in British and Australian history dealing with women and gender, the history of medicine, and crime and policing.

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