Dr David Goodman
| Senior Lecturer Postgraduate Studies Co-ordinator: American Studies | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 7859 |
| Email: | d.goodman@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 325 Bridge History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Research
David Goodman completed a BA Hons., Dip. Ed., and MA at Melbourne - the MA in the area of philosophy of history - and then a PhD in intellectual history at the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of Sydney, in American and Australian histories, and at the University of Melbourne in Australian studies. His 1994 book Goldseeking - Victoria and California in the 1850s was published by Allen and Unwin and Stanford University Press. He is currently completing a book on American radio in the 1930s and 40s, and a project on American isolationism in the years before WW2. He now teaches American history and American Studies.
Publications
Book Chapters
- David Goodman, 'Programming in the Public Interest: America's Town Meeting of the Air', in Michele Hilmes (ed.), A History of NBC - America's Network (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
- David Goodman, 'Anglophilism and Racial Nationalism before Pearl Harbor', in Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey, Stuart Macintyre (eds.), Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production - Institutions (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004), pp.107-125
- David Goodman, 'The Possible War - Philadelphia 1941', in Kat Ellinghaus, Glenn Moore and David Goodman (eds.), Unsettling America: Crisis and Belonging in United States History (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004), pp.129-140
- David Goodman, 'Making an Edgier History of Gold', in Iain McCalman and Andrew Reeves (ed.), Tailings: Forgotten histories and lost artefacts of Australian gold (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp.23-36
- David Goodman, 'Fear of Circuses - Founding the National Museum of Victoria', reprinted in Jessica Evans and David Boswell (eds.), Representing the Nation A Reader in Heritage and Museums (London: Routledge, 1999)
Journal Articles
- David Goodman, 'Democracy and public discussion in the Progressive and New Deal eras - from civic competence to the expression of opinion', in Studies in American Political Development Fall 2004, Vol.18, No.2, pp.81-111
- David Goodman, 'Location, Location - American History in Australia', in Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol.23, No.2 December 2004
- David Goodman, '"There is no-one to whom I can talk" - Norman Harper and American History in Australia', in Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol.23, No.1, July 2004, pp.5-20
- David Goodman, 'The "El Dorados"', in Journal of the West Vol.43, No.1, Winter 2004, pp.14-20
- David Goodman, 'American Studies There and Here', in Australasian Journal of American Studies Vol.22, No.1 (2003), pp.74-80
Teaching
131-079 Slavery & Freedom: US History 1790-1900
131-458 American Nation
131-080 American Modern: USA 1890-1975
Supervision
- Neil Saul, (PhD) Prisoners of the American Civil War: A comparative analysis of the attitudes held by Union and Confederate prisoners to the land and people of their captors and of perceptions in the North and South about the treatment of prisoners of war
- Sara Martin, (PhD) Family and Community in the Central Victorian Goldfields, 1851-1933
- Andrew Harrison, (PhD) When the revolution comes: black power, cultural nationalism and signifying within African-American music during the period 1968-1972, and its manifestation within contemporary black music
- Kynan Gentry, (PhD) Associations make identities: Pakeha preservation of Maori historic places in New Zealand, 1890-1955
- Peter O'Toole, (PhD) Newspaper coverage of the Vietnam war: A Comparative analysis across three continents
- Madeleine Hamilton, (PhD) Historical and current understandings of the World War II and post-war pin-up girl (Australia and United States of America)
- Tim Goldsmith, (PhD) The theology of David Koresh
- Peter Collingwood, (PhD) Space without place? The re-networking of commercial radio in Australia
- Tim Verhoeven, (PhD) Republicanism and the Catholic church in France and the United States 1850 - 1870: A comparative study
- Lucinda Mathieson, (MA) Republicanism and the Catholic church in France and the United States 1850 - 1870: The Legacy of John F. Kennedy: A comparative study
- Yannick Thoraval, (MA) The Mirrored Lens: The Government as Enemy in Hollywood Film, 1989 - 2000