Professor Joanne Scott
BA(Hons) Qld., PhD Qld., GradCertEd Qld.UT, GradCertCulturalHtge Deakin
Position: Head of School of Social Sciences, Professor, History
Office: DG.22
Tel: +61 7 5430 1238
Email: jscott@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Australian history
- Oral history
- World history
Research areas
- Australian social history
- oral history
Profile
Professor Joanne Scott has published in the fields of Australian and Queensland history, labour history, gender and race relations, oral history, popular culture, urban studies and higher education. She is co-author of Showtime: A History of the Brisbane Exhibition, The Engine Room of Government and A Class of Its Own.
In 2009 Showtime and the associated Museum of Brisbane exhibition, Ten Days in August, were awarded gold in the National Trust of Queensland’s Governor’s Heritage Award category. In 2009 Joanne was a Fellow at the National Film and Sound Archives in Canberra where she undertook research on the history of agricultural shows. She is currently leading an Australian Research Council funded project on the history of the Australian Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Joanne is a former Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. She is a member of the Australian Historical Association's Executive and the Queensland working group for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Publications
Many of Professor Joanne Scott's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
Research grants
- Australian Academy of the Humanities grant, Joanne Scott, 2007, A History of the Brisbane Exhibition.
- A History of the Brisbane Exhibition, Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie (UQ), University of the Sunshine Coast Internal Research Grant, 2005-2006. First held in 1876, the Brisbane Exhibition is Queensland's premier agricultural show and one of the largest annual events in Australia. This project retrieves and analyses the history of the Brisbane Exhibition and uses this history to reflect more broadly on Queensland's and Australia's cultural and social history.
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