Geoff teaches British history, urban history, historigraphy and public history in the School of Historical & Philosophical Inquiry. His biography of the English mystic, antiquarian, Freemason and museums pioneer J.S.M. Ward appeared as Archangels & Archaeology: JSM Ward's Kingdom of the Wise in 2012, followed by Culture, Philanthopy and the Poor in Late-Victorian London (Routledge, 2017, paperback edition 2019). His current projects include an ARC Linkage project (2019-2022) to develop a Queensland Atlas of Religon, as well as a book project on the intimate politics of social liberalism in Britain, 1880-1920. Since 2005 he has served on the Board of the State Library of Queensland (to 2008) and the Queensland Museum (2008-2013, 2017-2023), and as a judge in the Queensland Literary Awards.
Geoff's research spans the academic, public history and museum sectors. In addition to scholarly research in British history, urban history and heritage studies, he has undertaken a number of consultancies and contracts as a professional historian. He was a Chief Investigator on the innovative ARC Linkage project to develop the Queensland Historical Atlas (2007-2010), and is presently first CI on another ARC Linkage project to develop a Queensland Atlas of Religion (to be completed 2023-24, in partnership with the State Library of Queensland). In 2015-2018 he led a UQ colaboration to secure Queensland Anzac Centenary funding to develop and produce The Blood Votes, an original play by Michael Futcher dramatising the Queensland conscription debates of 1916-17. This was staged by the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble in November 2018, accompanied by a website of teaching materials and original sources developed in collaboration with the Queensland History Teachers Association. (https://hpi.uq.edu.au/australian-conscription-debate)
Journal Article: The Saints of Silkwood
Ginn, Geoff and Bowles, Adam (2024). The Saints of Silkwood. Queensland Atlas of Religion.
Michael C. Westaway, Mandana Mapar, Tracey Hough, Shawnee Gorringe and Geoff Ginn eds. (2022). Kirrenderri, heart of the Channel Country: a University of Queensland Anthropology Museum touring exhibition. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Anthropology Museum.
Book: Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315184999
The Queensland Atlas of Religion
(2019–2024) ARC Linkage Projects
The blood votes: a historical drama
(2018) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
"Conscription!?" The debates of 1916-17 as historical theatre
(2016–2017) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
German Lutheran Leadership in Southeast Queensland During World War 1
Master Philosophy
Pastoralism and Modernity in the Burnett region of Queensland, 1890-1920
Doctor Philosophy
Collecting Antiquities in Wartime: Australian antiquities collectors in the First World War
Doctor Philosophy
Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315184999
Michael C. Westaway, Mandana Mapar, Tracey Hough, Shawnee Gorringe and Geoff Ginn eds. (2022). Kirrenderri, heart of the Channel Country: a University of Queensland Anthropology Museum touring exhibition. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Anthropology Museum.
Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). Culture, philanthropy and the poor in late-Victorian London. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315184999
Archangels & archaeology: J.S.M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise
Ginn, Geoffrey (2012). Archangels & archaeology: J.S.M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise. Portland, OR, United States: Sussex Academic Press.
'A most promising corps': citizen soldiers in Colonial Queensland, 1860-1903
Geoff Ginn, Hilary Davies and Brian G. Rough eds. (2010). 'A most promising corps': citizen soldiers in Colonial Queensland, 1860-1903. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Colonial Forces Study Group.
'We are all still here': anthropological perspectives on cultural change
Martin, Richard and Ginn, Geoff (2022). 'We are all still here': anthropological perspectives on cultural change. Kirrenderri: heart of the Channel Country. (pp. 39-42) edited by Michael C. Westaway, Mandana Mapar, Tracey Hough, Shawnee Gorringe and Geoff Ginn. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum.
University extension and the settlement idea
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2021). University extension and the settlement idea. The settlement house movement revisited: a transnational history. (pp. 91-107) edited by John Gal, Stefan Köngeter and Sarah Vicary. Bristol, United Kingdom: Policy Press.
Altruism and the Monks of Thelema: Ideals and Realities
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Altruism and the Monks of Thelema: Ideals and Realities. Walter Besant: the business of literature and the pleasures of reform. (pp. 151-170) edited by Kevin A. Morrison. Liverpool, United Kingdom: Liverpool University Press. doi: 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0009
Staging history in Brisbane's Anzac centenary
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Staging history in Brisbane's Anzac centenary. The Great War: aftermath and commemoration. (pp. 179-192) edited by Carolyn Holbrook and Keir Reeves. Sydney, Australia: UNSW Press.
Ginn, Geoffrey and Spearritt, Peter (2016). Cities, imperial. The encyclopedia of empire. (pp. 1-14) edited by John M. MacKenzie, Nigel Dalziel, Nicholas Doumanis and Michael W. Charney. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118455074
Ginn, Geoff (2010). Bell Family papers. Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 52-53) edited by Roslyn Follett. St Lucia, Qld. Australia: University of Queensland Library.
Ginn, Geoff, Pratt, Rod and Rough, Brian (2010). Defending colonial Queensland. 'A most promising corps': Citizen soldiers in colonial Queensland. (pp. 3-15) edited by Geoff Ginn, Hilary Davies and Brian Rough. Brisbane, Australia: Colonial Forces Study Group.
South Bank and the Queensland Cultural Centre: Constructing a Visual History
Ginn, G. A. C. (2007). South Bank and the Queensland Cultural Centre: Constructing a Visual History. New Ground: Construction Photographs by Peter Liddy. (pp. 19-26) edited by Liddy, P., Morrell, T. and Ginn, G. A. C.. Brisbane, Australia: Peter Liddy.
Motive Power: Animating history at the North Ipswich Railway Workshops
Ginn, Geoff and Hallam, Greg (2003). Motive Power: Animating history at the North Ipswich Railway Workshops. Industrial Cycle: photographs of the North Ipswich Railway Workshops Brisbane. (pp. 19-25) edited by Peter Liddy. Annerley, Qld: CDE Communications.
Ginn, Geoff and Bowles, Adam (2024). The Saints of Silkwood. Queensland Atlas of Religion.
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. and Featherstone, Lisa (2021). Editorial note. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67 (1), 1-1. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12767
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2020). Review of Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 66 (1), 176-177. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12660
Book review: Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2019). Book review: Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 65 (1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12558
Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2018). Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920. Nineteenth-Century Contexts: an interdisciplinary journal, 40 (4), 411-412. doi: 10.1080/08905495.2018.1481638
The Conscription Conflict and the Great War
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2017). The Conscription Conflict and the Great War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63 (3), 478-480. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12389
Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2016). Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (1), 160-161. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12234
Review of Ten cities that made an empire
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2015). Review of Ten cities that made an empire. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 154-155.
Impressions and inscriptions: making Brisbane Town
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2013). Impressions and inscriptions: making Brisbane Town. Queensland History Journal, 21 (12), 791-808.
Leichhardt’s colonial panorama: social observation in his Australian diaries
Ginn, Geoff (2013). Leichhardt’s colonial panorama: social observation in his Australian diaries. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series, 7 (2), 561-574.
Grassy hills: colonial defence and coastal forts
Ginn, Geoff and Rough, Brian (2012). Grassy hills: colonial defence and coastal forts. Queensland Historical Atlas.
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). Peoples on parade: exhibitions, empire, and anthropology in nineteenth-century Britain by Sadiah Qureshi. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3), 469-470. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01647.x
After Ruskin: The social and political legacies of a Victorian prophet, 1870-1920
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). After Ruskin: The social and political legacies of a Victorian prophet, 1870-1920. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (1), 150-151. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01629.x
Surveying success: the Hume family in Colonial Queensland
Ginn, Geoff (2012). Surveying success: the Hume family in Colonial Queensland. History Queensland (2), 25-25.
Ginn, Geoff (2012). Treasures in the bush. History Australia, 9 (1), 219-221.
Ginn, Geoff and Westaway, Michael (2010). Fortress Queensland 1942-45. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes
Ginn, Geoff (2010). Pastoralism 1860s-1915. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, cultures, landscapes (2009-10)
Separation: divisions in the landscape
Ginn, Geoff (2010). Separation: divisions in the landscape. Queensland Historical Atlas
Ginn, Geoff (2010). War memorials. Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes, 2009-2010.
J.S.M. Ward, 'Bishop at Large': 'Orthodox Catholicism' and church history in interwar Britain
Ginn, Geoff (2010). J.S.M. Ward, 'Bishop at Large': 'Orthodox Catholicism' and church history in interwar Britain. Crossroads: an interdisciplinary journal for the study of history, philosophy, religion and classics, V (I), 45-57.
Ginn, G. A. C. (2010). Becoming Historians. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 56 (3), 484-484. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01566.x
Holy ground and mortal promises: the campaigns for the Mothers' Memorial, Toowoomba
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2010). Holy ground and mortal promises: the campaigns for the Mothers' Memorial, Toowoomba. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (3), 331-346. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2010.498332
An Ark for England: Esoteric heritage at J. S. M. Ward's Abbey Folk Park, 1934-1940
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2010). An Ark for England: Esoteric heritage at J. S. M. Ward's Abbey Folk Park, 1934-1940. Journal of the History of Collections, 22 (1), 129-140. doi: 10.1093/jhc/fhp033
Cilento's centenary: The triumph of his topics
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2009). Cilento's centenary: The triumph of his topics. Queensland Review, Special Issue (Special Issue), 57-72.
Ginn, Geoff (2008). Review of Jo Besley's Remembering Goodna: Stories from a Queensland mental hospital, Museum of Brisbane. History Australia, 5 (2), 48.1-48.2. doi: 10.2104/ha080048
Ginn, G. A.C. (2008). Book Review: Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927. By Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54 (1), 157-158. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2008.00491.x
Review of 'Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900'
Ginn, Geoff (2007). Review of 'Australia Imagined: Views from the British Periodical Press 1800-1900'. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53 (1 (Special issue: Terror, Total War and Genocide in the Twentieth Century)), 149-164. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2007.00448.x
Answering the 'Bitter Cry': Urban description and social reform in the late-Victorian East End
Ginn, Geoff (2006). Answering the 'Bitter Cry': Urban description and social reform in the late-Victorian East End. The London Journal: A review of metropolitan society, 31 (2), 179-200. doi: 10.1179/174963206X113160
Review of Hill end: An historic Australian goldfields landscape by A Mayne
Ginn, G. A. C. (2005). Review of Hill end: An historic Australian goldfields landscape by A Mayne. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1 (51), 125-127.
Ginn, G. A. C. (2004). How to dig a dump: Strategy and research design for investigation of Brisbane's nineteenth-century municipal dump.. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 22 (1), 15-26.
Ecological pioneers: A social history of Australian ecological thought and action
Ginn, G (2003). Ecological pioneers: A social history of Australian ecological thought and action. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 49 (1), 114-115. doi: 10.1111/1467-8497.00286
Gifts of culture in the late-Victorian east end
Ginn, G. A. C. (2003). Gifts of culture in the late-Victorian east end. University of Queensland Historical Proceedings, 14 (1), 13-31.
Sherds of Early Brisbane: History, Archaeology and the Convict Lumber Yard
Ginn, Geoff and Harris, Jeanne E. (2002). Sherds of Early Brisbane: History, Archaeology and the Convict Lumber Yard. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 18 (2), 49-67.
Ginn, G (2002). Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island. The aboriginal and settler histories of a unique environment.. Australian Journal of Politics And History, 48 (1), 103-104.
Strange bedfellows: Green Hill Fort, archaeology and tourism
Grimwade, Gordon and Ginn, Geoff (2002). Strange bedfellows: Green Hill Fort, archaeology and tourism. Australasian Historical Archaeology, 20, 83-91.
Spectacles remembered: the retrospective vocabularies of a Victorian childhood
Ginn, Geoffrey A.C. (2013). Spectacles remembered: the retrospective vocabularies of a Victorian childhood. AVSA 2012: Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, Nathan, QLD, Australia, 11-14 April, 2012. North Ryde, NSW, Australia: Macquarie Lighthouse E-book Publishing.
Encounters with the past: an antiquarian and the British World, 1890-1916
Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. (2012). Encounters with the past: an antiquarian and the British World, 1890-1916. The British World: Religion, Memory, Society, Culture, Toowoomba, Qld, Australia, 2-5 July 2012. Toowoomba, Qld, Australia: University of Southern Queensland.
University of Queensland Historical Proceedings
University of Queensland Historical Proceedings. (2005). 16 (1)
University of Queensland Historical Proceedings
University of Queensland Historical Proceedings. (2004). 15 (1)
University of Queensland historical proceedings
University of Queensland historical proceedings. (2003). 14 (1)
Ginn, Geoffrey (2002). An assessment of cultural heritage values associated with Gowrie Creek waterways: Report to Toowoomba City Council. Toowoomba, Australia: Archaeo Cultural Heritage Services.
Gifts of culture, centres of light
Ginn, Geoff (2001). Gifts of culture, centres of light. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.1162
The Queensland Atlas of Religion
(2019–2024) ARC Linkage Projects
The blood votes: a historical drama
(2018) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
"Conscription!?" The debates of 1916-17 as historical theatre
(2016–2017) Queensland Anzac Centenary Grants Program
The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes
(2007–2009) ARC Linkage Projects
The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes
(2006–2007) UQ FirstLink Scheme
John Ward: Historical Biography
(2002–2003) UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
German Lutheran Leadership in Southeast Queensland During World War 1
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Pastoralism and Modernity in the Burnett region of Queensland, 1890-1920
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
Collecting Antiquities in Wartime: Australian antiquities collectors in the First World War
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
An assessment of the social significance of public buildings to understand past heritage management decisions, and inform future heritage management.
Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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FM Bailey: Botanist in Colonial Queensland
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Russian and Ukrainian diaspora in Australia: cultural memory, perceptions of identity
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in Australian trade unions from 1930-1960
Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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From the oder and the rhine: Germans in South Australia, 1838-1914
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Why Go Modern? The Catholic School Designs of Frank L. Cullen
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the far left in Australia, 1918-1925
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Climate, resource and culturally responsive strategies for tropical buildings: Comparative study of educational buildings in post-war West Africa within the global context.
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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"Spiritual Hungary": Self-Representation, National Heritage, and Identity at the Hungarian Australian Cultural Festivals (1969-2017)
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The Bulgarian participation in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty negotiations
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Brisbane Tattersall's Club: Change and Continuity, Success and Survival (1883 - 2015)
(2018) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Sampson Perry: A Forgotten Radical and his House of Commons Libel Case, 1792
(2016) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Sir Bruce Watson AC: a case study for Queensland's mining history, 1956-1992
(2016) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Reconsidering Professionalism: Women, Space and Art in England, 1880-1914
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Casting a `Cold Light¿? Psychical Research and the Haunting of Popular Culture in Britain, 1918-1948
(2014) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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Patriotic women and citizenship in Australia, 1914-18
(2013) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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An Imported Railway - the background to construction of Queensland's early railway
(2012) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Policing Knowledge: Surveillance in colonial Bengal, 1861 to 1913
(2012) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Iron in building, 1750-1855: Innovation and cultural resistance.
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2010) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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The life of Dr Eugen Hirschfeld (1866-1946)
(2010) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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'Before everything, remain Italian': Fascism and the Italian population of Queensland 1910-1945
(2009) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
(2009) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
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FROM RIVER BANKS TO SHEARING SHEDS: THIRTY YEARS WITH FLYING ARTS 1971-2001
(2007) Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor
'OUR WAYWARD AND BACKWARD SISTER COLONY': QUEENSLAND AND THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION MOVEMENT, 1859 - 1901
(2006) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
THE HIBERNIAN AUSTRALASIAN CATHOLIC BENEFIT SOCIETY - BRISBANE BRANCHES 1879-1906: A HERITAGE STUDY
(2005) Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
The 9th Battalion AIF - Origins and Development of Military Capability 1867 - 1915
(2023) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities
(2023) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2022) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2020) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The Devil and the Victorians: Supernatural Evil in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
(2019) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2018) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
From Dispossession to Display: Authenticity, Aboriginality and the Queensland Museum, c.1862-1917
(2017) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Making `the One Day of the Year¿: a Genealogy of Anzac Day to 1918
(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2016) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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"DO NOT FORGET AUSTRALIA". Australian War Memorialisation at Villers-Bretonneux.
(2015) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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'No troops but the British': British national identity and the Battle for Waterloo
(2015) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2014) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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A whole new world: Global revolution and Australian social movements in the long Sixties
(2013) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Queensland Rifle Association 1861-2011
(2012) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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Remembering Captivity: Australian Prisoners of War of the Japanese
(2012) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The Storied Landscape: A Queensland Collection
(2011) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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(2010) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Mt Coot-tha: the history of an urban forest park
(2010) Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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The Cultural Landscape Engineers:Humans and Environment in the Maroochy District, 1850 ¿ 1950
(2008) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
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PROMISING LIVES: FIRST PLACEGETTERS IN THE QUEENSLAND SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION 1873-1962
(2007) Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor