Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
| Gerry Higgins Professor of Irish Studies | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 3924 |
| Email: | e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 539 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
Academic Qualifications:
BA Hons (University of NSW, Sydney); MA Hons (University of Sydney); PhD (University of Dublin, Trinity College).
Academic Fellowships:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS); Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA).
Previous Full-Time Academic Positions:
University of NSW, Australia; University of Trondheim, Norway; University of Tromsø, Norway; Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland; University of Liverpool, UK.
Current Offices:
President, Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ); co-editor, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies.
Research
Elizabeth works mainly in the field of Irish social history and has published on topics, such as: temperance, drink and pubs; popular culture; asylums and mental illness; hospitals and disease; crime and policing; women’s and gender history; and migration. She has also written about recent Irish historiography and the development of Irish Studies.
Projects
Elizabeth currently holds two large ARC research grants:
- with Dr Dianne Hall, for a study of gender, violence and the Irish from the 12th to the 19th century (2004-8);
- with Dr Dolly MacKinnon and Dr John Waller, for a study of psychiatric institutionalization and community care in Australia from the 1830s to the 1990s (2007-9)
Selected publications
Books/Reports
- E. Malcolm, The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: a Life, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006, 266pp
- E. Malcolm, C.H. Mahony, L. Izarra, J.P. Harrington and O. Pliny (eds), The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum, Prague: Charles University Press, 2006, 151pp
- E. Malcolm and G. Jones (eds), Medicine, Disease and the State in Ireland, 1650-1940, Cork: Cork University Press, 1999, 278pp
- E. Malcolm, Elderly Return Migration from Britain to Ireland: a Preliminary Study, Dublin: National Council for the Elderly, Report No. 41, 1996, 119pp
- E. Malcolm, Swift’s Hospital: a History of St Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin, 1746-1989, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1989, 384pp
- E. Malcolm, ‘Ireland Sober, Ireland Free’: Drink and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1986, 363pp
Articles/Chapters
In Press
- E. Malcolm, ‘Between Habitual Drunkards and Alcoholics: Inebriate Women and Reformatories in Ireland, 1899-1919’ in Margaret O'Hogartaigh and Margaret Preston (eds), Gender, Medicine and the State in Ireland, the United States and Australia, 1800-1950, New York: Syracuse University Press, forthcoming 2007/8
- E. Malcolm and D. Hall, ‘”Beyond the Pale”: Gender and Violence in Ireland, 1169-1603’ in Robert Frank and Jost Dülffer (eds), War, Peace, Society and International Order in History, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming 2007/8
- E. Malcolm and D. Hall, ‘Gender, Hybridity and Violence on the Frontiers of Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland’ in Megan Cassidy-Welch and Peter Sherlock (eds), Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming 2007/8
Published
- E. Malcolm, ‘Patrick O’Farrell and the Irish History Wars, 1971-93’, in Journal of Religious History, 31, 1 (March 2007), 24-39
- E. Malcolm, ‘10,000 Miles Away: Irish Studies Down Under’ in Liam Harte and Yvonne Whelan (eds), Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the 21st Century, London: Pluto Press, 2006, 32-45
- E. Malcolm, Review Article: ‘Plundering History in Support of Theory: Luke Gibbons, Gaelic Gothic: Race, Colonization, and Irish Culture (2004)’, in Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 5 (2005), 158-64
- E. Malcolm, ‘Teaching Irish Spaces in Different Times and Places: Reflections of a Peripatetic Irish Historian’ in Yvonne Whelan, Liam Harte and Patrick Crotty (eds), Ireland: Space, Text and Time, Dublin: Liffey Press, 2005, 79-92
- E. Malcolm, ‘”What would people say if I became a policeman?” (Ned Kelly) The Irish Policeman Abroad’ in Oonagh Walsh (ed.), Ireland Abroad: Politics and Professions in the Nineteenth Century, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003, 95-107
- E. Malcolm, ‘”Ireland’s Crowded Madhouses”: the Institutional Confinement of the Insane in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ireland’ in Roy Porter and David Wright (eds), The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 315-33
- E. Malcolm, ‘”A Most Miserable Looking Object”: the Irish in English Asylums, 1851-1901: Migration, Poverty and Prejudice’ in John Belchem and Klaus Tenfelde (eds), Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective, Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2003, 115-26
- E. Malcolm, Review Article: ‘Religion and Identity in the UK and the USA: Turn-of-the-Century Perspectives’, in Journal of Contemporary History, 38, 4 (October 2003), 647-57
- E. Malcolm, ‘Investigating the “Machinery of Murder”: Irish Detectives and Agrarian Outrage, 1847-70’, in New Hibernia Review, 6, 3 (Fall 2002), 73-91
- E. Malcolm, ‘Hospitals in Ireland’ in Angela Bourke et al (eds), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Volume V. Women’s Writing and Traditions, Cork and New York: Cork University Press and New York University Press, 2002, 705-21
Teaching
Since arriving in Melbourne in 2000, Elizabeth has taught a number of subjects on Irish history from 1500 up to the recent Troubles in Northern Ireland. She has also coordinated and taught more general subjects dealing with terrorism, violence and gender.
Her current Irish subjects are:
131-219 Modern and Contemporary Ireland since 1790
131-204 Ireland Down Under
131-413 Memory and Violence in Ireland
Supervision
Elizabeth is supervising a number of theses on Irish history, from the medieval period to the 20th century, and on migration and the Irish Diaspora. Resources for the study of Ireland and the Diaspora are plentiful in Melbourne, and Elizabeth can supervise a broad range of topics. She is also happy to supervise topics in British and Australian history dealing with women and gender, the history of medicine, and crime and policing.