BA, MA, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara

Senior Lecturer and Head of School

Tom Dunning is Senior Lecturer in the School, specializing in North American History.

Career Summary

University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1969-1971, Lecturer
La Trobe University, Melbourne, 1971-1979, Lecturer
University of Tasmania, (including years at TSIT),1985-present, Senior Lecturer

Publications (since 1995)

Narrow Nowhere Universe: Child Rape and Convict Transportation in Scotland and Van Diemen's Land, 1839-1853, The Scottish Historical Review, LXXXV1, 1 No. 221 (April 2007)

with P. Richards and Barbara Valentine (eds,) 'Effecting a Cure: Aspects of Health and Medicine in Launceston', Myola Press (2006)

'Civil War Re-enactments: Performance as a Cultural Practice' The Australasian Journal of American Studies, 21 (1), 63-73 (2002)

with H.J. Maxwell-Stewart, 'Mutiny at Deloraine: Ganging and Convict Resistance in 1840s Van Diemen's Land, Labour History, 82 35-47 (2002)

'The Adventures of Patriot Hunters: Danger, Memory, Place and Virtue at the Windmill, Canadian Review of American Studies 29 (1) 109-121 (1999)

'Convict Bodies in Van Diemen's Land; The North American Experience, Australian Studies, 13 (1) 134-141 (1998)

'The Canadian Rebellions of 1837-38: An Episode in Northern Borderlands Journal of Australasian Journal of American Studies 14 (2) 31-47 (1995)

with DJ Huon, 'Comparative History: Its Many Voices; Australia and the United States, 1778-1990s, Australasian Journal of American History, 14 (1), 99-131 (1995)

Link to Publications/WARP Page

Research Interests

Current projects include the Social and Cultural Life of the Plebeian Peoples of Scotland and the American Civil War and Cultural Memory.

Units

• HTA102 - History 1B Making the Modern World
  
• HTA242 - Colonial USA, 1607-1789
  
• HTA243 - USA: The Nation from 1789
  
• HTA249 - Atlantic Worlds, 1450-1807
  
• HTA252 - African-American History
  
• HTA255 - War and Peace in the Pacific
  
• HTA260 - Researching Family History
  
• HTA275 - History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
  
• HTA355 - War and Peace in the Pacific
  
• HTA360 - Researching Family History
  
• HTA375 - History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
  

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• The evolution of Tasmania’s tourism image from settlement to present day
• Levee Line and Martial Law: a history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener People of Van Diemen
• The contribution of C.H.Spurgeon's Students to the Formation of the Baptist Union of Tasmania
• Convicts & the law in VDL - how they used the legal processes available to their own advantage
• Educating the Masses: the intentional authoring of Native American identity in the early nineteenth century
• Across the Tasman Sea: movement between Launceston and Dunedin 1840-1914
• The Experience of Exile: North American Political Prisoners in Van Diemen
• "A Model Among Towns": A Study of Progressivism in Launceston During the Interwar Period
• The Mole Creek Pack Track Between Central & Western Tasmania
• Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Narrative of Martin Cash
• The Conquering Image: Paint, Film and the Iconic Australian Landscape