Current Projects
1. David Bennett, 'Consumer Culture: The influence of economics on modern theories and practices of sexual psychology' (ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010 $171,000)
2. Helen Davies, 'Socialists, Bankers: The Pereire Brothers and the Crédit Mobilier'
3. Jackie Dickenson and Frank Bongiorno (King's College, London), 'Money Matters: A history of parliamentary salaries and allowances in Australia, 1850-2010'
4. Jackie Dickenson, Linda Brennan (RMIT University) and Susan Smulyan (Brown University), 'How Advertising Works: A history of industry practices, processes and techniques'
5. Catherine Kovesi, Dale Kent and Rosa Salzberg, 'Luxury, Consumption, and the Ethics of Greed in Renaissance Italy'
6. Monique Li, 'A Study of Costume in the Liao and Jin Dynasties'
7. David Llewellyn, 'The influence of Jeremey Bentham's ideas in Australia'
8. John Murphy, 'The non-government welfare sector in the mixed economy of welfare in Australia, focusing on the Brotherhood of St Laurence, Wesley Central Mission and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, examining their shifting place in welfare provision, and the influence of their different faiths on how they imagine the poor' (ARC Discovery Project)
9. John Murphy, '150 low-income Australians: a group biography over time' (An ARC Linkage grant, with Belinda Probert, Mark Peel, Greg Marston, Jenny Chalmers and Suellen Murray)
11. Dolly MacKinnon: 'Charity clothing (including coloured clothing) in early modern England 1500-1800'; Institutional clothing, and the asylum as consumer (part of an ARC Linkage Grant 2009-2012 'Reading the Objects: Developing Online Personal Stories from Australia's 'Museums of Madness', 1870-1980' with Professor Elizabeth Malcolm and Dr Nurin Veis, Museum Victoria, $149,000)
12. Gideon Reuveni: 'Jews and Money: Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity in Europe'
13. Rosa Salzberg, 'Mobility on the Margins: Pedlars and Hawkers in the Early Modern Italian City'
14. Peter Sherlock, 'The Monuments of Westminster Abbey'
15. Judith Smart, 'Housewives Associations in Australia and the Politics of Consumption'
16. Stephen Wheatcroft (Univ. of Melbourne), Stephen Morgan (Universities of Melbourne and Nottingham), Cormac O'Grada (University College Dublin), and Anthony Garnaut (Univ. of Melbourne), 'The causes and consequences of the great famines of the last two centuries in Russia, China, Ireland and elsewhere'. (ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2011, $548,000)
17. Stephen Wheatcroft and Sheila Fitzpatrick (Univ. of Chicago) 'Welfare, Repression and Political Decision Making under Stalin'
Completed Projects
1. Jackie Dickenson, 'Selling with the past: history as a resource in the production of advertising material'. (University of Melbourne Early Career Research Grant 2008 $16,000)
2. Antonia Finnane, 'Consumption in Late Imperial China: An Early Modern Phenomenon?' (ARC Discovery Project 2006-08, $120,000)
3. Antonia Finnane and Catherine Kovesi, 'Luxury's Defining Moments in Renaissance Italy and Ming China'. (University of Melbourne Research Grant Scheme 2008 $16,891)
4. John Murphy and Karolina Kurzak, 'The face of the poor: a history of poverty through the eyes of the St Vincent de Paul Society' (PhD project funded through ARC Linkage project 2006-9). Karolina Kurzak is the PhD candidate.