MA, Edinburgh, PhD., Edinburgh.

Associate Professor

Career Summary

School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, 2000.

Port Arthur Fellow, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1998-2000.

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, 1991-96.


Recent Publications include:

H.Maxwell-Stewart, Closing Hell's Gates: The Death of a Convict Station (Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2008)

C. Pybus and H. Maxwell-Stewart, American Citizens and British Slaves (Melbourne University Press/ Michigan State University Press, Carlton/ East Lancing, 2002), pp. xvi, 270.

L. Frost and H. Maxwell-Stewart (eds), Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Live (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2001), pp. xv, 248

H. Maxwell-Stewart and S. Hood, A Pack of Thieves? Fifty-Two Port Arthur Lives (Port Arthur Historic Site, Port Arthur, 2007 - fourth edition), pp.127

Research Interests

Convict history, unfree labour, colonization, history from below, heritage issues and cultural heritage interpretation.

Units

• HTA102 - History 1B Making the Modern World
  
• HTA249 - Atlantic Worlds, 1450-1807
  
• HTA254 - Colonial Societies
  
• HTA263 - Convict Archaeology
  
• HTA290 - History and Heritage
  
• HTA354 - Colonial Societies
  
• HTA363 - Convict Archaeology
  
• HTA390 - History and Heritage
  

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• The Gentry in Van Diemen's Land, 1820-1856
• The Wreck of the Ship Hope; The history of a Colonial ship and the subsequent development of a buried treasure legend.
• Ecological Imperialism in Australia: 1770 to 1855
• Branded D on the Left Side: A Longitudinal Study of Military Convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land, 1803-1853
• Prostitution in Georgian London
• Crime and Convicts in Tasmania, 1853-1900
• Convicts & the law in VDL - how they used the legal processes available to their own advantage
• Nineteenth Century Prison Photography
• Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context
• The Experience of Exile: North American Political Prisoners in Van Diemen
• The Growth of Anti-Transportationism and the Rise of a Political Culture in Van Diemens Land 1835-1845
• The Mole Creek Pack Track Between Central & Western Tasmania
• A comparative analysis of hospital treatment in the mid-nineteenth century, based on patient records from British and Colonial Australian Institutions
• Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Narrative of Martin Cash