Dr Michael Hau - Researcher Profile

Biography

Michael Hau graduated from the University of Tübingen (Germany) with an M.A. in history and anthropology. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa and spent two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. In 2005/2006, he returned to the Institute for three months to work on his research project about German sports and work sciences in the 1920’s and 30’s. He joined the School of Historical Studies in July 2002.

Qualifications

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE HIGHER EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

HISTORY

Institution: University of Iowa

Year awarded: 1997

Publications

Books

Hau, M., 2003, The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA.

Book Chapters

Hau, M., 2011, Asceticism and pleasure in German health reform: Patients as clients in Wilhelmine Sanatoria, in Beyond Pleasure: Cultures of Modern Asceticism, eds Evert Peeters, Leen Van Molle and Kaat Wils, Berghahn Books, UK and USA, pp. 42-61.

Hau, M., 2010, The normal, the ideal, and the beautiful, in A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire, eds Michael Sappol and Stephen P. Rice, Berg Publishers, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 149-170.

Hau, M., 2009, Biopolitik der Leistungssteirgerung: Arbeit als Sport in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus (Biopolitics of performance enhancement: Work as sport in the Weimar republic and national socialism), in Limbus Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, eds Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Birgit Lang, Alison Lewis, Christiane Weller, Rombach Buchverlag, Germany, pp. 87-100.

Hau, M., 2006, Body Culture, in Europe since 1914, eds Jay Winter, Charles Scribner's Sons, Detroit, pp. 386-390.

Hau, M., 2004, The humane expert: the crisis of modern medicine during the Weimar Republic, in Experts in Science and Society, eds Elke Kurz-Milcke and Gerd Gigerenzer, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York USA, pp. 105-122.

Hau, M., 2002, Korperbildung und sozialer Habitus. Soziale Bedeutungen von Korperlichkeit wahrend des Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik, in Wissenschaften und Wissenschaftspolitik: Bestandsaufnahmen zu Formationen, Bruchen und Kontinuitaten im Deutschland des 20. Jahrhunderts, eds Herausgegeben von Rudiger vom Bruch, Brigitte Kaderas, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart Germany, pp. 125-141.

Hau, M., 2001, Experten fur Menschlichkeit? Arztliche Berufsethik, Lebensreform und die Krise der Medizin in der Weimarer Republik, in Medizingeschichte und Medizinethik: Kontroversen und Begrundungsansatze 1900-1950, eds Andreas Frewer, Josef N. Neumann (Hg.), Campus Verlag, Frankfurt Germany, pp. 124-142.

Journal Articles

Hau, M., 2008, Sports in the human economy : 'Leibesubungen', medicine, psychology, and performance enhancement during the Weimar Republic, Central European History, vol 41, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 381-412.

Hau, M., 2000, The Holistic Gaze in German Medicine, 1890-1930, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol 74, issue 4, The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore USA, pp. 495-524.

Conference Proceedings

Hau, M., 2005, Conditioning the body for performance: Political Implications of Performance Discourses in German Sports, Medicine, and Psychology during the Weimar Republic, Proceedings of the American Historical Association, 06/01/2005-09/01/2005, American Historical Association, U.S.A, pp. 148-163.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Attwood, B (Joint), Hau, M (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A History of Australian Fatherhood, 1918-1960..

Supervisors:

Twomey, C (Main), Hau, M (Associate), Peel, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Eugenics and strategies of population management in the US and Britain in the early 20th century..

Supervisors:

Hau, M (Main), Verhoeven, T (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Fireworks and Chemistry: Interactions between chemistry and pyrotechny from the mid 18th century.

Supervisors:

Garrioch, D (Main), Hau, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Men of legend: the social composition of the 3rd battalion first AIF.

Supervisors:

Thomson, A (Main), Hau, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

To explore Ibn Sina's knowledge management in his Canon of Medicine..

Supervisors:

Mews, C (Main), Hau, M (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Landes, J.

Program of Study:

History and Memory; a Comparative Study of Holocaust Testimony Archives. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Markus, A (Main), Hau, M (Associate).

Student:

Scully, R.

Program of Study:

Admiration, antagonism, ambivalence: British images of Germany, 1860-1914. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Caine, B (Main), Hau, M (Associate).

Student:

Sturman, B.

Program of Study:

Coloured fire - The development of coloured pyrotechnic flames in Early Nineteenth Century Europe. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Hau, M (Main), Garrioch, D (Associate).

Student:

Stylianou, M.

Program of Study:

Combating 'Ignorance... the greatest enemy of health': health education in Australia, 1945-1981. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Twomey, C (Main), Hau, M (Associate).