Biography
Dr Tanja Luckins, BA (Hons) Melb, PhD La Trobe, is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, researching a history of cosmopolitanism in Australia. Her books include The Gates of Memory: Australian Peopleýs Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War (2004), GO! Melbourne in the Sixties (2005), and Dining on Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History, (2007). Highly commended in the 2004 Fellowship of Australian Writers/National Literary Awards, The Gates of Memory is based on Tanjaýs PhD which was co-winner of the 2002 Australian Historical Association Serle Award for best postgraduate thesis in Australian History. GO! Melbourne in the Sixties was highly commended in the 2007 Victorian Community History Awards, GO! Melbourne in the Sixties and Dining on Turtles are based on conferences Tanja co-convened. Tanja's research interests are broadly in Australian History. She has published on cultural history and popular culture; myth, memory and history; material culture; the pub; World War I and II; the 1960s; cosmopolitanism. Her work is characterised by a cross-disciplinary approach and use of eclectic textual, visual and material sources in order to research and write the cultural histories of people who do not fit into nationalist and modernist frameworks. Her PhD was a study of loss and memory and the Great War in Australia, a thesis which sought to move beyond nationalist histories of the Great War typically represented in the Anzac legend. It was methodologically wide-ranging, exploring material hitherto ignored such as mourning lack and asylum admission records in order to analyse the gendered cultural experiences of loss and memory. Subsequent research has looked at the history of the pub in Australia, a project that stimulated further work on food and drink and cosmopolitanism in Australian history. Tanja's current project is an Australian Research Council funded project on the history of cosmopolitanism in Australia, 1851-2001.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Country of Expertise |
| cultural history and popular culture, memory and history, material culture, the pub, World War I and II, the 1960s, cosmopolitanism |
Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| PHD OF PHILOSOPHY |
La Trobe University |
31-Dec-2001 |
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| BACHELOR OF ARTS (HNS) |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1988 |
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Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Member |
Royal Historical Society of Victoria |
member |
01-Jan-2000 |
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| Member |
PEN |
member |
01-Jan-2008 |
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| Member |
Australian Historical Association |
member |
01-Jan-2000 |
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Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Medal |
University of Melbourne |
Dwight Final Examination Prize - university medal for Fine Arts |
01-Dec-1987 |
| Scholarship |
University of Melbourne |
Commonwealth Scholarship |
01-Jan-1988 |
| Prize |
Australian Historical Association |
Australian Historical Association Serle Award for best postgraduate thesis in Australian History |
01-Jul-2002 |
| Prize |
Fellowship of Australian Writers |
Highly Commended, Fellowship of Australian Writers/National Literary Awards 2004, Melbourne University Publishing Award (non-fiction) for Gates of M |
01-Mar-2005 |
| Prize |
Victorian Government Community History Award |
Highly Commended, Victorian Community History Awards 2007, Collaborative/Community Work Award for GO! Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa, Melbourne, 20 |
01-Jul-2007 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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