Julie Kimber

Biography

Julie Kimber is an Australian historian based at Swinburne University of Technology where she teaches history and politics. She is president of the Swinburne Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union, secretary of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, joint national editor its biannual magazine Radical Currents, Labour Histories (with Prof. Diane Kirkby) and editor of the triannual publication, Recorder, of the Melbourne Branch.

From 2013 to 2020 Julie was co-editor (with A/Prof. Maggie Nolan) of the Journal of Australian Studies (journal of the International Australian Studies Association), and a book review editor of Labour History: a journal of labour and social history from 2002 to 2015 (with Prof. Phillip Deery and Prof. Stuart Macintyre). She has edited several book collections on Australian political and labour history. Before joining Swinburne, Julie taught at several universities in NSW and Victoria.

Current Teaching

HIS10004 Australian History
HIS30007 War and Peace in the Twentieth Century
ART20001 Grand Challenges: Skills and Strategies for Social Change
POL30003 Applied Political Research

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Clare Arthurs: Media Safety-Curriculum best practice (with Jock Given);
Alex Box: People and Fire in Regional Australia (with Chris Agius);
Adamantia Di Biase: Models of political representation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (with Michael Leach);
Dimity Hawkins: Nuclear Shadows: Nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific and the Fijian response 1966-1975 (with Chris Agius and Michael Leach);
Lucy Kent: Public Service Broadcasting in Australia in the Digital Age (with Kerry Ryan);
Nicholas Pelley: An examination of hyper-exploited labour and collective acts of resistance in Australia (with Peter Love, Peter Robinson, and Lorenzo Veracini);
Janice Woolley: Understanding the emergence and spread of conspiracy theories in the post-9/11 era; from the Tea Party and twenty-first century anti-vaxxers, to QAnon and the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Chris Agius).

Completions

James Murphy: East West Link: A Political Post-Mortem (with Damon Alexander), 2019.
Chris Beck: The Thin Black Line (MA, with Andrew Dodd), 2018.
Dan Tout: “A gumtree is not a branch of an oak”: Indigenising settler nationalism in 1930s Australia (PhD, with Lorenzo Veracini), 2018.
Salma Shafiq: Acculturation Barriers for Bangladeshi Migrants (PhD, with Michael Leach), 2016.
Sal Clark: Navigating Asylum: Journeys from Indonesia to Australia (PhD, with Michael Leach), 2015.
Dustin Halse: History of the Public Service Association (PhD, with Brian Costar), 2015.
David Moore: Arthur Moore and the Non-Labour Politics in QLD 1915-1941 (PhD, with Brian Costar), 2014.

Other

2021–(current), President, Swinburne Branch, National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU)
2016–(current), Secretary, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH)
2002–(current), Editorial Board Member, Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2020–(current), Editorial Board Member, Journal of Australian Studies
2005–(current), Editor, Recorder, Newsletter of the Melbourne Branch, ASSLH
2014–(current), Swinburne Branch Committee Member, NTEU
2013–(current), Executive Committee Member, International Australian Studies Association
2010–2021, Board Member, Gasworks Arts Park
2013–2020, Co-Editor, Journal of Australian Studies (with Maggie Nolan)
2015–2016, Vice President, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
2002–2016, Book Review Editor, Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2012–2015, Vice President, Melbourne Branch, ASSLH
2010–2015, Committee Member, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
2005–2007, Treasurer, Melbourne Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
2002–2005, Secretary, Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
2002–2005, Treasurer, Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
1999–2005, Co-Editor, The Hummer (with John Shields), journal of the Sydney Branch, ASSLH
1999–2005, Executive Committee Member, Sydney Branch, ASSLH

Membership

Australian Society for the Study of Labour History
Australian Historical Studies
Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology
Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society
Australian Association for Pacific Studies
Australian Women’s History Network
International Australian Studies Association
Royal Australian Historical Society
Royal Australian Historical Society of Victoria

2020/2021 Writing

Download Edited Books here:

Phillip Deery and Julie Kimber (eds), Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century (Melbourne: Leftbank Press, 2015). http://doi.org/10.5263/FAW

Julie Kimber and Peter Love (Eds), The time of their lives: the eight hour day and working life (Melbourne: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 2007). http://doi.org/10.5263/TOTL

Recent Media

The Ferry Plot (ABC’s History Lesson. Presenter: Brett Evans; Producer: Ros Bluett; Sound Engineer: John Jacobs. With Phillip Deery and Julie Kimber. June 2020).