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Associate Professor Martin Crotty

Associate Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
m.crotty@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 53288

Overview

Associate Professor Martin Crotty’s research interests include war and Australian society, sports history, masculinity, and education.

Associate Professor Martin Crotty studied in New Zealand before moving to Australia to undertake postgraduate studies at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. After four years of teaching History at the University of Newcastle in NSW, he took up his current position teaching History at the University of Queensland in early 2003. He has since served as the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School and as the Head of School for the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry from mid-2013 to mid-2017.

Martin's major publications include Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity, 1870-1920 (1901) and a variety of journal articles, book chapters and edited collections, including The Great Mistakes of Australian History (2006), Turning Points in Australian History (2008) and Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of war (2010). He has supervised widely, and has seen some fifteen M.Phil and PhD students through to completion.

Martin has served on the executive of teh Australian Historical Association for the last six years and convened the 2014 AHA conference at the University of Queensland in 2014.

Qualifications

  • PhD in History, University of Melbourne
  • MA History, Monash University
  • B.Comm/BA(Hons), University of Canterbury

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning

    Crotty, Martin and Holbrook, Carolyn (2021). The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning. No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion: And 49 Other Essays that got the World Talking. (pp. 116-119) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames and Hudson.

  • The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia

    Crotty, Martin (2017). The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia. Legacies of violence: rendering the unspeakable past in modern Australia. (pp. 185-198) edited by Robert Mason. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.

  • The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War

    Ariotti, Kate and Crotty, Martin (2016). The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War. Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 68-80) edited by Martin Crotty and Robert Hess. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia)

    Crotty, Martin (2015). Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia). 1914-1918-online: international encyclopedia of the First World War. (pp. 1-13) edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer and Bill Nasson. Berlin, Germany: Freie Universitat Berlin. doi: 10.15463/ie1418.10605

  • Melbourne in microcosm

    Crotty, Martin (2012). Melbourne in microcosm. Written into history: celebrating fifty years of the Melbourne Historical Journal, 1961-2011. (pp. 313-315) edited by Keir Wotherspoon and Erik Ropers. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.

  • Introduction: The many faces of return

    Crotty, Martin and Larson, Marina (2010). Introduction: The many faces of return. Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War. (pp. 1-16) edited by Martin Crotty and Marina Larson. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

  • Queenslanders who fought in the Great War

    Crotty, Martin (2010). Queenslanders who fought in the Great War. Found in Fryer: Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 82-83) edited by Roslyn Follett. Brisbane: University of Queensland Library.

  • The returned sailors' and soldiers' imperial league of Australia, 1916-1946

    Crotty, Martin (2010). The returned sailors' and soldiers' imperial league of Australia, 1916-1946. Anzac legacies: Australians and the aftermath of war. (pp. 166-186) edited by Martin Crotty and Marina Larson. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

  • 25 April 1915 australian troops land at gallipoli: Trial, trauma and the 'birth of the nation'

    Crotty, Martin A. (2009). 25 April 1915 australian troops land at gallipoli: Trial, trauma and the 'birth of the nation'. Turning points in Australian history. (pp. 100-114) edited by Martin A. Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney, NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.

  • Scouts down under: Scouting, militarism and "manliness" in Australia, 1908-1920

    Crotty, Martin (2009). Scouts down under: Scouting, militarism and "manliness" in Australia, 1908-1920. Scouting frontiers: Youth and the Scout movement's first century. (pp. 74-88) edited by Nelson R. Block and Tammy M. Proctor. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Constructing whiteness in the Australian adventure story, 1875-1920

    Crotty, Martin A. (2008). Constructing whiteness in the Australian adventure story, 1875-1920. Transnational whiteness matters. (pp. 133-146) edited by Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, Casey, Maryrose and Nicoll, Fiona. Lanham, U.S.: Lexington Books.

  • Introduction

    Crotty, Martin A. and David Andrew Roberts (2008). Introduction. Turning points in Australian history. (pp. 1-17) edited by Crotty, Martin A. and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press Ltd.

  • Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL

    Crotty, M. A. (2007). Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL. Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. (pp. 37-54) edited by Allen, M. and Dhawan. R. K.. Janakpuri, New Delhi: Prestige Books.

  • Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past

    Crotty, Martin and Roberts, David Andrew (2006). Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 1-13) edited by M. Crotty and D.A. Roberts. Sydney: UNSW Press.

  • Naive militarism: Australian's World War I generation

    Crotty, Martin A. (2006). Naive militarism: Australian's World War I generation. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 108-122) edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press.

  • Pointing the Way - Antipodean Responses to J.A. Mangan's Athleticism and Related Studies: Scotch College, Melbourne, in the Inter-War Years

    Crotty, M. A. (2004). Pointing the Way - Antipodean Responses to J.A. Mangan's Athleticism and Related Studies: Scotch College, Melbourne, in the Inter-War Years. 'Serious sport' J.A. Hangan's Contribution to the History of Sport. (pp. 64-81) edited by Scott A. G. M. Crawford. Great Britain: Frank Cass.

  • Introduction: Why History?

    Crotty, M. A. and Eklund, E. (2003). Introduction: Why History?. Australia to 1901: Selected readings in the making of a Nation. (pp. 1-8) edited by Martin Crotty and Erik Eklund. Victoria: Tertiary Press.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • The Rise, Fall and Rise of the RSL, 1916-1946

    Crotty, Martin (2008). The Rise, Fall and Rise of the RSL, 1916-1946. When the Soldiers Return, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 28-30 November 2007. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland, School of History, Philosophy Religion and Classics.

  • Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920

    Crotty, Martin (2007). Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920. Historicising Whiteness Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 November, 2006. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Australian Army Nurses and war-related trauma in WW1

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Forgotten Women: Australian War Widows and Spinsters in the Aftermath of World War I, 1919-1939

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Experiences of Secondary School Cadet Training in Australia and New Zealand During the Second World War

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

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  • Far from home: war cemeteries and the afterlife of reconciliation

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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  • Not Born, But Made: Understanding the Provenance and Evolution of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Australia Through Perceptions of Childhood

    Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

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War and Australian society, Australian history, History - Australian, Australia - history

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ORCID: 0000-0002-7153-278X

Scopus ID: 7005662186

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