Prof Mark Peel - Researcher Profile

We do not have a photograph of this person yet.

Address

School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies
Faculty of Arts, Clayton

Biography

Mark is an Adjunct Professor of History at Monash. He was appointed as Professor of History in 2007, and was Head of the School of Historical Studies in 2009, having also worked in numerous roles for the School, the Faculty of Arts and the University. He moved to the United Kingdom at the end of 2009, and is a Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool. His writing has focused largely on histories of poverty--especially in The Lowest Rung (2003) and Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse (2011)--and he also authored A Little History of Australia (1997) and, with former Monash colleague Christina Twomey, A History of Australia (2011). A renowned teacher, he has won awards for teaching and postgraduate supervision, including a Citation from the fomer Australian Learning and Teaching Council and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2008.

Keywords

community law social reform law reform social justice social history, poverty, social justice, history, class

Qualifications

PHD
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 1993
MASTER OF ARTS
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Year awarded: 1985
MASTER OF ARTS
Institution: Flinders University
Year awarded: 1984

Publications

Books

Peel, M.A., 2003, The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.

Pargetter, R., McInnis, C., James, R., Evans, M.A., Peel, M., 1999, Transition from Secondary to Tertiary: A Performance Study, DETYA-EIP, Canberra ACT Australia.

Pargetter, R., McInnis, C., James, R., Peel, M., Dobson, I., Evans, M.A., 1999, Transition from Secondary to Tertiary: Performance Study, DETYA - Higher Education Division, Canberra ACT Australia.

McInnis, C., James, R., Evans, M.A., Peel, M., Dobson, I., 1999, Transition from secondary to tertiary; a performance study, OETYA, Higher Education Division, Canberra ACT Australia.

Peel, M., 1997, A Little History of Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Book Chapters

Peel, M.A., 2009, New worlds of friendship: the early twentieth century, in Friendship: A History, eds Barbara Caine, Equinox Publishing, London UK, pp. 279-316.

Peel, M.A., Reed, L., Walter, J.A., 2009, The importance of friends: the most recent past, in Friendship: A History, eds Barbara Caine, Equinox Publishing, London, pp. 317-355.

Peel, M.A., 2005, Mothers who don't want to work and fathers who do, in Double shift: working mothers and social change in Australia, eds Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert, Melbourne Publishing Group, Beaconsfield Vic Australia, pp. 24-36.

Peel, M.A., 2002, The ends of the earth, in Words for country: landscape and language in Australia, eds Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths, University of New South Wales Press Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 176-189.

Peel, M.A., 2000, Between the houses: neighbouring and privacy, in A history of European housing in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 269-286.

Peel, M., 1998, Introduction: Australian Family Histories, in The Australian Family, Scribe Publications, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-14.

Peel, M., 1998, Trusting Disadvantaged Citizens, in Trust and Governance, Russell Sage Foundation, New York NY USA, pp. 315-342.

Peel, M., 1997, A New Kind of Manhood: Remembering the 1950s, in The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in the 1950s, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 147-157.

Journal Articles

Peel, M.A., 2007, Male social workers and the anxieties of women's authority: Boston and Minneapolis, 1920-1940, Journal of Men's Studies, vol 15, issue 3, Men's Studies Press LLC, Harriman, USA, pp. 282-294.

Peel, M.A., Caine, B., Twomey, C.L., 2007, Masculinity, emotion and subjectivity: Introduction, The Journal of Men's Studies, vol 15, issue 3, Men's Studies Press LLC, Harriman, USA, pp. 247-250.

Peel, M.A., Millar, C.M., 2007, Vocational ventures and robust independence, History Australia, vol 4, issue 2, Monash University ePress, Australia, pp. 45.1-45.12.

Garrioch, D.T., Peel, M.A., 2006, Introduction: the social history of urban neighborhoods, The Journal of Urban History, vol 32, issue 5, Sage Publications, Inc, Thousand Oaks USA, pp. 663-676.

Peel, M.A., 2005, Charity, casework and the dramas of class in Melbourne, 1920-1940, History Australia, vol 2, issue 3, Monash University ePress, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Millar, C.M., Peel, M.A., 2004, Canons old and new? The undergraduate history curriculum in 2004, History Australia, vol 2, issue 1, Monash University e-Press, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 1-13.

Peel, M.A., 2004, Imperfect bodies of the poor, Griffith Review, vol 4, issue 11, Griffith University/ABC Books, Meadowbrook Qld Australia, pp. 83-93.

Peel, M.A., Powell, S., Treacey, M., 2004, Student perspectives on temporary and permanent exit from university: a case study from Monash University, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, vol 26, issue 2, Carfax Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 239-249.

Peel, M., 2000, Entitlement and justice, Urban Policy and Research, vol 18 issue 2, Urban Policy and Research Inc., Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 239-246.

Peel, M., 2000, Nobody cares?: the challenge of isolation in school-university transition, Journal of Institutional Research, vol 9 issue 1, Journal of Institutional Research, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 22-34.

Peel, M., 1998, Writing and Teaching National History, AGORA, vol 33, no 2, History Teachers Association of Victoira, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 15-21.

Peel, M., 1997, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. By George Chauncey, Australian Historical Studies, vol 28, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 141-143.

Conference Proceedings

Peel, M., Powell, S., 2000, Monitoring and assisting student academic progress, Creating futures for a new millennium, Queensland University of Technolgy Brisbane, 5-7 July 2000, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Qld Australia, pp. 1-10.

Peel, M., 1997, Trusting Tenants: Responsible Redevelopment, Rejuvenating Our Ageing Housing Estates: The Redevelopment of Public Housing, Paramatta, 22 March 1996, Shelter NSW, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 5-15.

Other

Peel, M.A., 2005, Poverty and Wealth, The Encylopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 560-562.

Peel, M., 1998, Urban History, The Oxford Companion to Australian Histsory, vol encyclopedia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 658-659.

Activities

Professional organisation memberships

From: 01/07/2010
Royal Historical Society
Fellow

From: 01/12/2008
Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

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).

Completed Supervision

Student:
Aitken, J.
Program of Study:
REPRESENTATIONS OF WIFE-BEATING IN AUSTRALIA, 1880 - 1914. (PHD) 2005.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Quartly, M (Associate).
Student:
Andrews, A.
Program of Study:
Football: the people's game. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Davison, G (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Blair, M.
Program of Study:
The American Civil War in cyberspace. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Davison, G (Associate).
Student:
Burgess, S.
Program of Study:
Imagined Womanhood: The Possibilities and Insecurities of the Heroines of the Interwar Years. (Masters) 2002.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main).
Student:
Carlton, B.
Program of Study:
IMPRISIONING HISTORIES: STATE POWER AND PRISONER RESISTANCE IN THE JIKA JIKA HIGH-SECURITY UNIT 1980-1987. (PHD) 2004.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Peel, V (Associate).
Student:
Carroll, L.
Program of Study:
For the red and the blue: a social history of the Melbourne Football Club. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Quartly, M (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Couchman, S.
Program of Study:
TONG YUN GAI (STREET OF THE CHINESE)INVESTIGATING PATTERNS OF WORK AND SOCIAL LIFE IN MELBOURNE'S CHINATOWN 1900-1920. (Masters) 2000.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Crawford, R.
Program of Study:
SELLING A NATION: DEPICTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY IN PRESS ADVERTISEMENTS, 1900-1969.. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Davison, G (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Duras, A.
Program of Study:
"Parade of the Old New": Interaction Between Trade Unions and New Social Movements in Australia 1965-1985. (Masters) 2001.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Markus, A (Associate).
Student:
Fischer, N.
Program of Study:
THE SAVAGE WITHIN: ANTI-COMMUNISM, ANTI-DEMOCRACY & AUTHORITARISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA, 1917-1929. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Davison, G (Associate).
Student:
Gold, M.
Program of Study:
THE CROWN HEIGHTS RIOTS AND THE EFFECT ON BLACK-JEWSIH RELATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Wood, A (Associate).
Student:
Gordon-Clark, F.
Program of Study:
The last gun in defence of the South.. (PHD) 2007.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Copland, I (Associate).
Student:
Grant, L.
Program of Study:
Mateship, Memory and the Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial. (Masters) 2005.
Supervisors:
Twomey, C (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Iaccarino, A.
Program of Study:
RESEARCH TITLE UNAVAILABLE. 2000.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Hains, B (Associate).
Student:
John, M.
Program of Study:
Responsible Witnessing: Narratives of Tragedy and Failure in Van Diemen's Land. (Masters) 2009.
Supervisors:
Attwood, B (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Katz, M.
Program of Study:
Beyond 'Migrant Mother': exhibiting the American experience of the Great Depression and the 1930s. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
O''Hanlon, S (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Katz, M.
Program of Study:
HISTORY UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Curators and the Experience of Creating Accessible Public History. (Masters) 2005.
Supervisors:
Davison, G (Main), Peel, M (Joint).
Student:
Kelly, J.
Program of Study:
'Yarra Bank' A Family School in Melbourne. (Masters) 2001.
Supervisors:
O''Hanlon, S (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Mason, R.
Program of Study:
MAGIC CIRCLES: ANOTHER SIDE OF THE BEATLES. (PHD) 2002.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Reed, E (Joint).
Student:
Millar, C.
Program of Study:
Bessie Rischbieth: a biography. (PHD) 2008.
Supervisors:
Caine, B (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Peterson, R.
Program of Study:
Jessie Vasey: the making of a conservative feminist. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Quartly, M (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Powell, S.
Program of Study:
mOTHERING, HUSBANDRY AND THE STATE: CONSERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA, 1912-1945. (PHD) 2000.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Historical Supervisor, I (Associate).
Student:
Proctor, T.
Program of Study:
New pioneers in the valley of the future: postwar British immigration to the Latrobe Valley. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Brodie, M (Associate).
Student:
Sammut, J.
Program of Study:
THE QUEST FOR CIVIC VIRTUE: CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICS IN FEDERAL AUSTRALIA. (PHD) 2003.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Attwood, B (Associate).
Student:
Sendziuk, P.
Program of Study:
LEARNING TO TRUST: A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN RESPONSES TO AIDS. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Attwood, B (Associate).
Student:
Shaw, K.
Program of Study:
'Johnny has gone for a Soldier' Youth Enlistment in a Union Count 1861-1865. (Masters) 2009.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Main), Brodie, M (Associate).
Student:
Sinclair, K.
Program of Study:
'Like Another People' Writing The Indian Through Symbol and Captivity, 1675-1699 . (Masters) 2001.
Supervisors:
Wood, A (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Stevens, R.
Program of Study:
Debating immigration control in Australia and the United States, 1975-1995. (PHD) 2011.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Joint-Co), Markus, A (Joint).
Student:
Taffe, S.
Program of Study:
THE FEDERAL COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ABORIGINES AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS, THE POLITICS OF INTER-RACIAL COALITION IN AUSTRALIA 1958-1973. (PHD) 2001.
Supervisors:
Markus, A (Main), Peel, M (Associate).
Student:
Treacey, M.
Program of Study:
Out of synch: screen history. (PHD) 2009.
Supervisors:
Peel, M (Joint-Co), Williams, D (Joint).