Dr Keir Reeves
| Lecturer and ARC Postdoctoral Fellow Associate Director, Cultural Heritage Unit | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 3355 |
| Email: | keir@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 345 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Biography
After completing his undergraduate degrees in Arts and Economics at Monash University where he majored in politics, history and economics, Keir Reeves continued his studies in history at the University of Melbourne completing his MA in 2001 and PhD in 2005. Dr Reeves’ main research focus to date has been on the cultural history of gold mining communities, particularly the experience of the gold fields Chinese in Victoria during and immediately after the gold rush era of the mid-nineteenth century.
He is the associate director of the Cultural Heritage Unit in the School of Historical Studies and currently serves on the Public Records Office of Victoria Stakeholders Committee, the Mount Alexander Diggings Board of Management and the Heritage Victoria Reference Panel for the Framework of Historic Themes Project and the Steering Committee for the Buckland Project.
Research
Reeves research has been closely connected to historical cultural landscape analysis, Australian history, heritage studies, cultural heritage management policy, public history, comparative goldfields history, regional history, Chinese Australian history, new media and historical interpretation.
He is currently an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow working on a three-year research ARC LINKAGE project titled Historical studies in central Victoria's regional heritage 1834-1950 that uses historical landscape analysis to consider the cultural history of central Victoria and its role in the emergent Pacific Rim goldfields sociétés of the mid-nineteenth century. Reeves’ main contribution has been to uncover the complex nature of the cultural fabric and racial exchange on the Mount Alexander diggings during the second half of the nineteenth century. He is also interested in the nineteenth century history of Australian gold mining industry and the world heritage values of the region.
Reeves is also involved in the Places of Pain and Shame ARC Discovery project with Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. This project is conceived as a cross-cultural study of imprisonment sites, their heritage values and the ways that communities, government agencies and heritage professionals deal with these cases of ‘difficult heritage’. The findings of this will be presented in the forthcoming book Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult' Heritage to be published by Routledge Press, UK.
He has extended his research interest in cultural landscape analysis to the Indochina and was recently awarded an Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellow for a project titled Rethinking Historical Cultural Landscapes: Laos as a Case Study.
Using cultural landscape analysis and cultural history his current research aims at considering the Australian gold seeking experience within the broader historical rubric of the the Pacific Rim gold rushes.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Reeves, Keir. “Gold rush era Castlemaine: Reading an historical town as a cultural landscape”. Victorian Historical Journal. (Accepted, Forthcoming 2009)
- Frost, W., Reeves, K., Laing, J. and F. Wheeler ‘Villages, Vineyards and Chinese Dragons: Constructing the Heritage of Ethnic Diasporas’. Accepted forthcoming special issue of Tourism, Culture and Communication. (Accepted, Forthcoming 2008)
- Reeves, Keir, E. Rebecca Sanders and Gordon F Chisholm, “Oral Histories of a Layered Landscape: The Rushworth Oral History Project.” Public History Review, August (2007): 114-127
- Reeves, Keir and Benjamin W. Mountford. “Court records & cultural landscapes: Rethinking the Chinese gold seekers in central Victoria.” Provenance, September no. 6 (2007): 1-13
- Reeves, Keir, “Goldfields Settler or Frontier Rogue”, in Provenance, September no. 5 (2006): 1-13
- Reeves, Keir, "Tracking the Dragon Down Under: Chinese Cultural Connections in Gold Rush Australia and Aotearoa, New Zealand," in Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies Issue 1, no. 5 (2005): 41-66
- Reeves, Keir, "A Songster, a Sketcher and the Chinese on Central Victoria’s Mount Alexander Diggings: Case Studies in Cultural Complexity During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century", in Journal of Australian Colonial History 6, no. 1 (2004): 175-93
- Reeves, Keir, "Historical Neglect of an Enduring Chinese Community", in Traffic 3 (2003): 53-78
- Bannear, David, Keir Reeves, Jane Lennon, and Michael Pearson, "Gold, Ruins and the Victorian Way", in Journal of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, no. 3 (2002): 65-68
Book Chapters
- Reeves, Keir. “15 July 1851, Hargreaves discovers gold at Ophir: Australia’s Golden Age.’ In Crucial Moments in Australian History edited by Martin Crotty and David Roberts. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2008. (Accepted, in press, forthcoming July 2008)
- Logan, William and Keir Reeves, “Introducing Places of Pain and Shame”, in Places Of Pain And Shame: Dealing With 'Difficult' Heritage, edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves, London: Routledge, 2008
- Long, Colin and Keir Reeves, “Healing the Wounds: Heritage Practice at Toul Sleng and Choeung Ek, Cambodia”, in Places Of Pain And Shame: Dealing With 'Difficult' Heritage, edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves, London: Routledge, 2008
- Andrew Brown-May, Cate Elkner and Keir Reeves, “Taking the rushes on line: The E Gold project a digital encyclopedia” in Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history, edited by Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Series, 2007
- Reeves, Keir and David Nichols, “Kew Asylum, Melbourne: A Nineteenth-century Case of a Benevolent Place of Pain and Shame”, in Places Of Pain And Shame: Dealing With 'Difficult' Heritage, edited by William Logan and Keir Reeves, London: Routledge, 2008
- Reeves, Keir and David Nichols, “Rural Asylums and the goldfields civic project”, in Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history, edited by Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Series, 2007. (Accepted March 2007, forthcoming)
- Reeves, Keir and David Nichols, “Deeper Leads: A cultural landscape of the Victorian gold fields” in Deeper Leads: New approaches in Victorian gold fields history, edited by Keir Reeves and David Nichols, Ballarat: Ballarat Heritage Series, 2007
- Reeves, Keir, “Echoes on a cultural landscape: Glimpses of Chinese community life in Castlemaine” in Gold Tailings: Forgotten histories of family and community on the central Victorian goldfields, Alan Mayne and Charles Fahey eds. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press, 2007
- Reeves, Keir, “The Chinese” in The Traveller’s Guide to the goldfields History and Natural Heritage Trails Through Central and Western Victoria, edited by Richard Everist, Torquay: Bestshot Publications, 2006
- Reeves, Keir, and Kevin Wong Hoy, "Beyond Peter Lalor and a European Protest: Redefining the Chinese Agitation on the Victorian Goldfields," in Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend, edited by Alan Mayne, Perth: API, 2006: 155-174
Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings
- Reeves, Keir, Rethinking the intangible heritage and built environment of a gold fields region: A case study of the Castlemaine and its Diggings National Heritage Park. UPOH. Caloundra, February 2008
- Reeves, Keir and David Bannear, Rethinking the intangible heritage and built environment of a gold fields region: A case study of the Castlemaine and its Diggings National Heritage Park, UPOH 2008 (Accepted April 2007, Forthcoming)
Government and Technical Reports
- Rushworth Oral History Project Report. Bendigo: Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2006. (Commissioned oral history project)
- Maryborough Forest History Project Bendigo: Department of Sustainability and Environment, Forest Stewardship 2006. (Commissioned social history project)
Reviews and Shorter Entries
- Reeves, Keir, Entry on Montsalvat for Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain, Encylopedia of Melbourne (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005)
- Reeves, Keir, Entry on Tarrawarra for Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain, Encylopedia of Melbourne (Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005)
- Reeves, Keir, 'Richard Selleck, The Shop: The University of Melbourne 1850-1939 and Chris Macauliffe and Peter Yule, Treasures: Highlights of the cultural collections of the University of Melbourne' in Melbourne Historical Journal vol. 31, 2003, pp. 101-104
Teaching areas
131-544 Applications in Public History
131-548 Heritage Workshop Chinese in Australia
Supervision
- Rebecca Sanders (PhD), Churchill Island and the practice of public history
- Leanne Howard (PhD), Community Involvement in Managing Cultural Landscapes: Reality or rhetoric?
- Megan Sheehy (MA), Beyond the book: history and heritage in the twenty first century
- Benjamin W. Mountford (Hons), Fook Shing: A Chinese Detective in Colonial Victoria
- Liz Coady (Hons), Roads and Bridges in Central Victoria, 1851-1862: Legislation and Control