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PROF ELIZABETH MALCOLM



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: GERRY HIGGINS CHAIR OF IRISH STUDIES
Email:
Work: 8344 3924
Mobile: 0400191638
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 539
Level: 05
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Irish and Australian Mental Health Ireland, Australia, history, mental institutions Australia, Ireland
Modern Irish History Ireland, gender, violence, police, crime, mental illness, migration Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United Kingdom Queen's University of Belfast Exchange, Research
United Kingdom University of Ulster at Coleraine Research
United Kingdom University of Liverpool Exchange
Ireland Trinity College Dublin Exchange
Ireland University College Cork Exchange
New Zealand Massey University Exchange, Research
Ireland University of Limerick Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of New South Wales 31-Dec-1970
Master of Arts (Research) University of Sydney 31-Dec-1972
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Dublin 31-Dec-1980

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHISTS.) 10-Aug-1996
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 13-Dec-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Policing Ireland under the union: a social history Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Scalded memory: violence, gender and the Irish, 1169-1923 Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
A HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONALISATION AND COMMUNITY CARE IN AUSTRALIA, 1830s-1990s Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

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.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • 'Gender, Hybridity, and Violence on the Frontiers of Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Ireland'
    Year: 2008
    Book: Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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    URL - open access www.brepols.net
  • Gender, Hybridity, and Violence on the Frontiers of Late-Medieval and Early Modern Ireland
    Year: 2008
    Book: Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe
    Publisher: Brepols(Turnhout)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

Publications in 2006

Books

  • The Future of Irish Studies: Report of the Irish Forum
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Charles University in Prague(Prague)
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  • The Irish Policeman 1822-1922: a life
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Four Courts Press(Dublin)
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  • The Irish Policeman, 1822-1922: a Life
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Four Courts Press(Dublin)
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    URL - open access www.four-courts-press.ie

Book Chapters

  • 10,000 Miles Away: Irish Studies Down Under
    Year: 2006
    Book: Ireland Beyond Boundaries: Mapping Irish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
    Publisher: Pluto Press(London)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Teaching Irish Spaces in Different Times and Places: Reflections of a Peripatetic Irish Historian
    Year: 2005
    Book: Ireland: Space, Text, Time
    Publisher: Liffey Press(Dublin)
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Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • "Beyond the Pale": Gender, Hybridity and Violence on the Irish Frontiers, 1169-1603
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences
    Conference Publication: History in Global Perspective: Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, Sydney 2005
    Page numbers: On CD-ROM
    Publisher: University of New South Wales
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • '"A Most Miserable Looking Object": the Irish in English Asylums, 1850-1901'
    Year: 2003
    Book: Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective
    Publisher: Klartext Verlag(Essen)
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    URL - open access www.klartext-verlag.de
  • 'What Would People Say if I Became a Policeman?': The Irish policeman abroad
    Year: 2003
    Book: Ireland Abroad
    Publisher: Four Courts Press(Dublin)
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  • Ireland's Crowded Madhouses: The Institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland
    Year: 2003
    Book: The Confinement of the Insane
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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  • The Irish in English Asylums
    Year: 2003
    Book: Irish and Polish Migration in Comparative Perspective
    Publisher: Klartext Verlag(Essen)
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Journal Articles

  • Religion and Identity in the United Kingdom and the USA: Turn-of-the-Century Perspectives
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Contemporary History
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 647-657
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Hospitals in Ireland
    Year: 2002
    Book: The field day anthology of Irish writing
    Publisher: Cork University Press(Cork)
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Journal Articles

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