Dr Barbara Keys
| Lecturer Undergraduate Coordinator | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5100 |
| Email: | bkeys@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 308 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Teaching | |
| Supervision | |
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Biography
Barbara Keys received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2001. Before coming to Melbourne she taught at California State University in Sacramento and was a research fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Her teaching areas include 20th century America, U.S. foreign relations, and the Cold War in global perspective.
Research
Barbara's research interests are broadly in the areas of intercultural relations, globalization, human rights, and the effects of transnational movements and organizations on the behaviour of states. Her first book, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Harvard University Press, 2006), is a transnational study of the emergence of international sports competitions as a significant political and cultural force in the 1930s. She has also written on sports in the Cold War. She is currently writing a book on the United States and the international politics of torture in the 1970s.
Publications
Books
- Barbara Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- Barbara Keys, “The Nixon Administration, Brazil, and the International Campaign to Abolish Torture,” in preparation.
- Barbara Keys, “The Soviet Union, Cultural Exchange, and the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games,” in Sport zwischen Ost und West. Beiträge zur Sportgeschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Arié Malz, Stefan Rohdewald, and Stefan Wiederkehr (Osnabrück: Fibre, 2007)
- Barbara Keys, “The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and the Postwar International Order,” in 1956: European and Global Perspectives, eds. Carole Fink, Frank Hadler, and Tomasz Schramm (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2006), 283-307
- Barbara Keys, “Spreading Peace, Democracy, and Coca-Cola: Sport and American Cultural Expansion in the 1930s,” in Diplomatic History 28, no. 2 (April 2004): 165-96
- Barbara Keys, “Soviet Sport and Transnational Mass Culture in the 1930s”, in Journal of Contemporary History 38, no. 3 (July 2003): 413-34
- Barbara Keys, “The Internationalization of Sport, 1890-1939,” in The Cultural Turn: Essays in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations, eds. Frank A. Ninkovich and Liping Bu (Chicago: Imprint Publications, 2001), 201-220
Teaching
131-236 The USA & The World: Democracy and Empire
131-416 Current Themes in American History
131-220 Rebels & Revolution in Latin America
Supervision
- Daniel White, (Hons) Franklin Roosevelt and the Creation of the United Nations
- Stephanie Mason, (Hons) Gender and the Cuban Revolution
- Katherine Volich, (Hons) The Cuban American National Foundation