Dr Rachel Stevens - Researcher Profile

Biography

My research interests focus on immigration and political history, particularly in the United States and Australia.  I am especially interested in comparative and transnational histories on immigration and ethnicity in the twentieth century.

I received my Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and PhD in the Department of History at Monash University.  During my doctoral degree I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

I have been a lecturer in contemporary history and international studies since 2010 and have tutored in a number of units at all undergraduate levels in history and international studies since 2005. I have also convened the international studies honours seminar in 2010 and 2011, and have supervised honours students in the fields of American, Asian and Australian history, as well as diaspora studies.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2011

BUSINESS (MARKETING)

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

ARTS (HONOURS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Book Chapters

Stevens, R., 2011, Mismanaging multiculturalism. The official English movement in the United States, in Intercultural Relations in a Global World, eds Michele Lobo, Vince Marotta and Nicole Oke, Common Ground, Champaign Illinois, pp. 13-28.

Journal Articles

Stevens, R.A., 2012, Political debates on asylum seekers during the Fraser government, 1977-1982, Australian Journal Of Politics And History [P], vol 58, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, Richmond, Victoria, Australia, pp. 526-541.

Stevens, R.A., 2006, 'Captured by kindness': Australian press representations of the Vietnam War, 1965-1970, History Australia, vol 3, issue 2, Monash University ePress, www.epress.monash.edu/ha, pp. 45.1-45.17.