Dr Dolly MacKinnon
| Fellow and Lecturer | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 5954 |
| Email: | a.mackinnon@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 544 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
| Academic Profile (click on the link for more information) | |
| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Teaching | |
| Supervision | |
Biography
Dolly MacKinnon has a PhD in early modern social history, and BMus from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from QUT. As an interdisciplinary scholar, her research projects reflect her interests and diversity. Dolly's work focuses on understanding how people construct and understand the mental and physical landscapes in which they live.
Research
Dolly's research projects span a number of different areas including early modern British cultural history, medical history and the history of psychiatry, women’s studies, and musicology. Her current work is a sensual history of the early modern world that shifts historical enquiry beyond just the visual, to include and explore the significance of sound in the social relations of the past and the present.
Publications
Books
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catharine Coleborne (eds) ‘Madness’ in Australia: Histories, Heritage, and the Asylum. (St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press/API Network, 2003)
- MacKinnon, Dolly, Revealing the Early Modern Landscape: Earls Colne, Essex. (Aldershot, England: Ashgate, forthcoming 2006/7)
- MacKinnon, Dolly, Ros Bandt, and Michelle Duffy (eds) Hearing Places: Anthology of Interdisciplinary Writings (Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2007)
Guest Editor Special Journal Issue
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catharine Coleborne (eds) Health & History, Special Issue: Histories of Psychiatry after Deinstitutionalisation: Australia and New Zealand, 5:2 (2003)
Book Chapters
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘“Hearing madness”: the soundscape of the asylum’ in C. Coleborne and D. MacKinnon (eds) ‘Madness’ in Australia: Histories, Heritage, and the Asylum (St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press/API Network, 2003), 73-82
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ''Jolly and fond of singing': the gendered nature of musical entertainment in Queensland mental institutions c1870-c1937' in C. Coleborne and D. MacKinnon (eds) 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, Heritage, and the Asylum (St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press/API Network, 2003), 157-168
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catharine Coleborne, ‘Introduction’ in C. Coleborne and D. MacKinnon (eds) 'Madness' in Australia: Histories, Heritage, and the Asylum (St. Lucia, QLD: University of Queensland Press/API Network, 2003), 1-8
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘The godly family of the seventeenth century, and John Howard’s Australia’ in D. Bird, T. White, and W. Were (eds) Future Imaginings: Gender and Families in the Twenty-First Century (Nedlands, WA: Institute of Advanced Studies and University of Western Australia Press, 2003), 101-116
- MacKinnon, Dolly, Ros Bandt and Michelle Duffy, ‘Hearing Places: Introduction’ in R. Bandt, M. Duffy, and D. MacKinnon (eds) Hearing Places: Anthology of Interdisciplinary Writings (Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2007)
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Hearing the English Reformation: Earls Colne, Essex’ in R. Bandt, M. Duffy, and D. MacKinnon (eds), Hearing Places: Anthology of Interdisciplinary Writings (Newcastle, England: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming 2007)
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Amusements are provided’: Asylum entertainment and recreation in Australian and New Zealand c.1860-c.1945’ in G. Mooney and J. Reinarz (eds), Institutional Visiting (forthcoming 2007)
- MacKinnon, Dolly ‘I have now a book of songs of her writing’: Scottish families, orality, literacy, and the transmission of musical cultural c1500-c1800 in J. Nugent and E. Ewan (eds), Social History of the Pre-Industrial Scottish Family (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, UK, forthcoming 2007) Women and Gender series
Journal Articles
- MacKinnon, Dolly, 'The arrangement of monuments and seating at St. Andrew's Church, Earls Colne during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries' Essex Archaeology and History (1997), 165-180
- MacKinnon, Dolly, 'The files of the nineteenth-century Incorporated Church Building Society, and St. Andrew's Church, Earls Colne, Essex during the eighteenth century' Local Historian (UK) (May 1997), 91-105
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘A captive audience’: Musical concerts in Queensland Mental Institutions c.1870-c.1930’. Context: Journal of Music Research 19 (2000), 43-56
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘“Poor senseless Bess clothed in her rags and folly”: Early Modern Women, Madness, and Song in Seventeenth-Century England’, Parergon 18:3 (2001), 119-151
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Deinstitutionalisation in Australia and New Zealand’, (with Catherine Coleborne) in D. MacKinnon and C. Coleborne (eds), Health & History, Special Issue: Histories of Psychiatry after Deinstitutionalisation: Australia and New Zealand, 5:2 (2003), 1-16
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘“The Trustworthy Agency of the Eyes”: Reading Images of Music and Madness in Historical Context’, D. MacKinnon and C. Coleborne (eds), Health & History, Special Issue: Histories of Psychiatry after Deinstitutionalisation: Australia and New Zealand, 5:2 (2003), 123-49
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catherine Manathunga, ‘Going Global with Assessment: What to do When the Dominant Culture’s Literacy Drives Assessment’, in R. James and K. Mok (eds), Higher Education Research and Development: Special Issue, 22:2 (2003), 132-143
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Women and Family Business in England, Wales and the Colonies c1500-1800: Constructing a Model for Historical Analysis’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, 20th Anniversary, 13 (2004), 117-126
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Music, Madness, and the Body: Symptom and Cure’, Sander L. Gilman (ed.), History of Psychiatry: Special Issue (UK), 17:1 (2006), 9-21
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catharine Coleborne, ‘Psychiatry and its Institutions in Australia and New Zealand: an overview’, Special Issue edited by Sanjeev Jain, International Review of Psychiatry: Understanding the History of Psychiatry in South Asian and Surrounding Regions 18:4 (2006), 371-380
Conference Proceedings (Refereed)
- MacKinnon, Dolly and Catherine Manathunga, ‘Socially and culturally responsive assessment: Preparing students for the new economy’, in Fred Beven, Clive Kanes and Dick Roebuck (eds) Knowledge Demands for the New Economy (Brisbane, Queensland: Australian Academic Press, 2001), vol. 2, 32-39
- MacKinnon, Dolly, ‘Music, MPs and the modernization of mental health policy in Queensland between 1937-1955’, in J. Raftery (ed.) Then and Now. Collected Papers of the Seventh Biennial Conference of the Australian Society of the History of Medicine, Occasional Papers in Medical History Australia No 10 (Adelaide: ASHM, CD ROM, 2002), 45-59
Historical Guides
- ‘Diaries, history of’ in David Loades (ed) Reader’s Guide to British History. 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 1, 356-358
- ‘Music: Plainsong and Polyphony’ in David Loades (ed) Reader’s Guide to British History. 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 2, 921-922
- ‘Music: 16th and 17th Centuries’ in David Loades (ed) Reader’s Guide to British History. 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 2, 924-925
- ‘Music: Instrumental & operatic, after 1660’ in David Loades (ed) Reader’s Guide to British History. 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 2003), vol. 2, 919-921
Teaching
131-233 Civil War and Revolution in Britain
131-407 Life and Death in Britain
Supervision
Current supervision:
- Annie Harper (PhD, History): Scandalous Songs and Scurvy Rhymes: Cultural History through the Broadside Ballads of Smithfield, 1609-1649
- Claudia Guli (PhD, History): The Legitimacy of the Trial of Charles I: historical precedent, the right of revolt and the roots of political power in England
- Nathan Parry (MMus, Music Faculty): Sir John Clerk (1676-1755) of Penicuk: A Contributor to Scottish Music During the Enlightenment
Recent Completions:
- Amanda Whiting (PhD, History): Deference and Difference: Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution
- Celia Anderson (Hons, Music Faculty): Semantics, Syntactics and Supra-Diegesis in Baz Luhrmann’s “Red Curtain Trilogy"