Dr Barbara Keys
Lecturer
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 5100
- Email:
- bkeys@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 308 West
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, The Human Rights Revolution: Forging a New Moral and Foreign Policy Imperative in the 1970s, Rowman & Littlefield, under contract, estimated publication in 2010.
- Barbara Keys, Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
Winner of Myrna Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; co-winner of Akira Iriye International History Book Award; and winner of book prizes of the North American Society for Sport History, the International Society for Olympic History, the Australian Society for Sport History, and the Contemporary Europe Research Centre of the University of Melbourne
Journal Articles
- Barbara Keys, “The Nixon Administration, Brazil, and the International Campaign to Abolish Torture,” in preparation.
- Barbara Keys, "Kissinger, Congress, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy," Diplomatic History, forthcoming
- Barbara Keys, "An African American Worker in Stalin's Soviet Union: Race and the Soviet Experiment in International Perspective," The Historian 71, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 31-54.
- 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
Book Chapters
- Barbara Keys, "Sport and International Relations," in Routledge Companion to Sport History, eds. Stephen Pope and John Nauright (Routledge, forthcoming 2009)
- Barbara Keys, “The Intellectual and Emotional Foundations of Internationalism in Sport,” in A Whole New Game: International Sports and the Creation of a Global Public, 1896-1989, eds. Stefan Wiederkehr and Uta Balbier (Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute), forthcoming
- Barbara Keys, "The International Olympic Committee and Global Culture in the Cold War," in Les relations culturelles internationals au vingtième siècle, eds. Anne Dulphy, Robert Frank, Marie-Anne Matard-Bonucci and Pascal Ory. Brussels: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2009
- 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, “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
PhD
- Peter Russell, "Human Rights and the Break-up of Yugoslavia"
- Ross Robson, "Ronald Reagan and the Idea of Liberty"
MA
- Ben Debney, "Corporate Americanism, 1900-1916"
- Anastasia Rachko, "Tretiakov, Mamontov, and Russian Art"
Honours Theses (completed)
- Sarah Bowyer, “The Human Rights Revolution and International Condemnation of Dictatorship in Chile”
- Shane Horan, “The Clinton Administration and Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty”
- Yasmin Mitchell, “Civil War in Colombia: State Weakness and FARC’s Growth in the 1990s”
- Sarah Pilcher, “Human Rights NGOs and the Trial of Augusto Pinochet”
- Vicki Toong, “The Cult of Eva Peron”
- Nick Laurie, “The U.S. War on Drugs in Colombia, 1982-2001”
- Melanie Pose, “19th Century Women’s Travel Accounts of Latin America”
- Sarah Gory, “Horacio Verbitsky, Democratisation, and Human Rights in Argentina”
- Daniel White, "Franklin Roosevelt and the Creation of the United Nations"
- Stephanie Mason, "Women and the Cuban Revolution"
- Katherine Volich, "The Cuban American National Foundation"