Professor Kate Darian-Smith
Professor of Australian Studies and History
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 7232
- Email:
- k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 9347 7731
- Location:
- Room 210, 137 Barry St
Australian Centre, Carlton VIC 3053
Academic Profile (click on the link for more information)
Biography
- Qualifications:
- BA Hons (Melb); PhD (Melb); Dip. Ed. (Melb)
- Professional Societies:
- Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
Professor Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History, and teaches in both programs. She was Director of The Australian Centre from 1998-2005, and over the past decade has held a range of senior administrative positions within Faculty of Arts, including terms as Deputy Dean, Associate Dean (International) and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies).
Kate is immediate past President (2002-2007) and current Vice President of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA). She has been involved in Australian Studies activities in Europe, North America and Asia; has directed government-funded Australian Studies projects in Taiwan and Indonesia; advises on Australian Studies grants for the Australian-China Council/DFAT; and has worked with the Australia-Japan Foundation/DFAT to assist the growth of Australian Studies in Japan.
She is a Research Associate at Museum Victoria, and serves on a number of editorial boards, including the Advisory Board of Meanjin; the Editorial Advisory Committee for Journal of Australian Studies; as Section Editor, Australasia & the Pacific, for History Compass; and as a Reviews Editor for Australian Historical Studies.
Research
Kate is a convenor of the 'Cultural Histories and Geographies' node of the ARC-funded Cultural Research Network (2005-9). She has been the Chief Investigator on many previous ARC research grants, including on a special project in conjunction with the Australian Academy of the Humanities, ANU and Sydney University on 'Writing for Scholars' (2005-6).
Current ARC-funded research projects:
- DP0663788: Dr H Lewi; Prof K Darian-Smith; Prof PJ Goad; Dr JL Willis; A/Prof JF Murphy
Title: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Designing Everyday Modernism for Australian Communities 1920-1970 - LP0669282: Prof K Darian-Smith; Prof WS Logan; Prof GP Seal
Title: Childhood, Tradition and Change: a national study of the historical and contemporary practices and significance of Australian children's playlore
Partner Organisations: National Library of Australia and Museum Victoria - LP0776803: Prof K.Darian-Smith; Dr. Penny Edmonds; Dr Julie Evans; Antoinette Smith
Title: Conciliation Narratives and the Historical Imagination in British Pacific Rim Settler Societies.
Partner Organisations: National Museum of Australia, Museum Victoria, Tasmanian Arts Gallery and Museum - DP0984223: Dr CA Driscoll; Dr K Bowles; Prof K Darian-Smith; A/Prof CR Gibson; Dr D Nichols; A/Prof G Waitt.
Title: Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life
Publications
Books
- Kate Darian-Smith, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime 1939-1945, second edition, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, forthcoming April 2009. 1st published: Oxford University Press, 1990
- Kate Darian-Smith and S. Wills, Agricultural Shows in Australia: A Survey, 1999
- Kate Darian-Smith, Kay Schaffer and R. Poignant, Captured Lives: Australian Captivity Narratives, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies Monograph, University of London, London, 1993
Selected Edited Books
- Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan and Elizabeth Willis (eds), Seize the Day, Australia: Exhibitions and the World, Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2008
- Kate Darian-Smith and Yasue Arimitsu (eds), Diamond Dog: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Short Stories which Reflect Multicultural Society, Gendai Kikakshitsu Publishers, Tokyo, 2008
- Kate Darian-Smith, Pat Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Melbourne University Press, 2007
- Kate Darian-Smith and Michael Cathcart (eds), Stirring Australian Speeches: A Definitive Collection from Botany to Bali, Melbourne University Press, 2004
- Kate Darian-Smith and J. Factor (eds), Child’s Play: Dorothy Howard and Australian Children’s Folklore, Melbourne Museum, 2005
- Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Stuart Macintyre and Kiera Lindsey (eds), Exploring the British World, RMIT Publishing (e-book), 2005
- Kate Darian-Smith, D. Carter and G. Worby (eds), Teaching Australian Studies: Thinking Across Cultures, Queensland University Press, 2004
- Kate Darian-Smith, Challenging Histories: Reflections on Australian History (special issue of Australian Historical Studies), 2002
- Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton (eds), Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia, Oxford University Press, 1994, reprinted 1997
- Kate Darian-Smith, L. Gunner and S. Nuttall (eds), Text, Theory, Space: land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia, Routledge, 1996
Book Chapters (from 2001 only)
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Seize the Day: Exhibiting Australia’ in Kate Darian-Smith, Caroline Jordan, Richard Gillespie and Elizabeth Willis (eds.), Seize the Day: Australia, Exhibitions and the World, Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2008, pp. 1.0-1.14.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Contemporary Australian Short Stories and National Belongings’, in Kate Darian-Smith and Yasue Arimitsu (eds) Diamond Dog: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Short Stories which Reflect Multicultural Society, Gendai Kikakshitsu Publishers, Tokyo, 2008, pp. 221-239.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Images of Empire: Gender and Nationhood in Australia at the Time of Federation’ in Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Melbourne University Press, 2007, pp.153-168.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Children, Families and the Nation in 1950s Australia’, in Kate Darian-Smith and June Factor (eds), Child’s Play: Dorothy Howard and Children’s Folklore in 1950s Australia, Museum Victoria Publishing, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 19-40.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Thinking Australian Studies at Lake Maninjau’, in David Carter, Kate Darian-Smith and Gus Worby, (eds), Thinking Australian Studies, Teaching Across Cultures, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 2004, pp. 178-90.
- Kate Darian-Smith, 'Material culture and the "signs" of captive white women', in Barbara Creed and Juliette Hoorn (eds), Body Trade: Captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific, Routledge, New York; Pluto Press, Annandale, Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2001, pp. 180-191.
Journal Articles and Refereed Conference Proceedings (from 2001 only)
- Kate Darian-Smith and Rachel Jenzen, 'Memories from America: Australian War Brides and US Marines Remember the Pacific During the Second World War', in Martin Crotty (ed), When the Soldiers Return: Refereed Conference Proceedings, University of Queensland with RMIT Informit, 2009
- Kate Darian-Smith, 'Oral Histories of Childhood and Playlore: The Aboriginal Children’s Play Project, Museum Victoria', Aboriginal History, Vol 32, 2008
- Kate Darian-Smith, 'Contemporary Australian Short Stories', Crossings, (International Australian Studies Association e-journal), Vol. 13, No 2, September, 2008, Concurrently published in The Southern Hemisphere Review, (Australian and New Zealand Literature Society of Japan hardcopy journal), November, 2008.
- Kate Darian-Smith, David Carter and Andrew Gorman-Murray, ‘Introduction: Rural Cultural Studies’, Australian Humanities Review, issue 45, November, ANU e-press, 2008, pp. 27-36.
- Andrew Gorman-Murray, Kate Darian-Smith and Chris Gibson, ‘Scaling the Rural: Reflection on Rural Cultural Studies’, Australian Humanities Review, issue 45, November, ANU e-press, 2008, pp. 37-52.
- Kate Darian-Smith and Julie Willis, ‘A Civic Heart: Empowered Citizenship and Post-war Public Modernism’, in S Loo & K Bartsch (eds), Panorama to Paradise: Proceedings of the XXIVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, Australia, 21-24 September, Published Papers, CDROM, 2008, pp. 1-17.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Public Culture in Contemporary Australia: Language, History and Truth’, Otemon Journal of Australian Studies (Japan), vol. 30., 2006, pp. 177-205.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Filming Indigenous Australia’, Otemon Journal of Australian Studies (Japan), vol 30, 2005, pp. 264-78.
- Sara Wills and Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Beefeaters, Bobbies and a New Varangian Guard? Negotiating Forms of “Britishness" in Suburban Australia’, History of Intellectual Culture, vol 4, no 1, 2004, pp. 1-18.
- Kate Darian-Smith and Sara Wills, ‘Beauty Contest for British Bulldogs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne’, Cultural Studies Review, Vol 9, No2, Nov., 2003, pp. 65-83.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘Introduction’, special ‘Challenging Histories’ issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April, 2002, pp. 1-6.
- Kate Darian-Smith, ‘ Histories and Rural Communities’, special ‘Challenging Histories’ issue, Australian Historical Studies, vol 118, April, 2002, pp. 90-99.
Publications available through e-prints repository:
- Darian-Smith, Kate and Wills, Sara (2004) ‘Beefeaters, Bobbies and a New Varangian Guard? Negotiating Forms of "Britishness" in Suburban Australia’, in History of Intellectual Culture, vol 4, no 1, pp. 1-18
- Darian-Smith, Kate and Wills, Sara (2003) 'Beauty Contest for the British Bulldogs? Negotiating (Trans)national identities in Suburban Melbourne', in Cultural Studies Review 9(2):pp. 65-83
- Darian-Smith, Kate (2002) 'Up the Country: Histories and Communities', in Australian Historical Studies 33(118):pp. 90-99
- Darian-Smith, Professor Kate and Wills, Dr Sara (2001) 'From Queen of Agriculture to Miss Showgirl', in Journal of Australian Studies 71:pp. 17-32
Teaching
Kate has interests in Australian cultural and social history, particularly in the twentieth century; war and Australian society, with reference to gender; the relationship between memory and history; museum studies and forms of exhibiting histories and cultures; ideas of community, society and the build environment in Australia; comparative colonial discourse and postcolonial studies; and is currently researching interactions between rural and urban Australia.
Supervision
Kate supervises postgraduate students across a range of topics in Australian studies, Australian history and cultural studies and is particularly interested in interdisciplinary research approaches. In 2006 she was the recipient of the Faculty of Arts Best Practice in Supervision Award in recognition of excellence in research higher degree supervision. (For full citation see: www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/staff/research/ExcellenceSprvsn2006.html).