Associate Professor Joanne Scott
BA(Hons) Qld., PhD Qld., GradCertEd Qld.UT, GradCertCulturalHtge Deakin
Position: Head of School of Social Sciences, Associate Professor, History
Office: DG.22
Tel: +61 7 5430 1238
Email: jscott@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Australian history
- Oral history
- World history
Research areas
- Australian social history
- Oral history
Profile
Associate Professor Joanne Scott has published in the fields of Australian and Queensland history, labour history, gender and race relations, oral history, popular culture, urban studies and higher education. She is co-author of The Engine Room of Government and A Class of Its Own.
Her new book, Showtime: A History of the Brisbane Exhibition, co-authored with Dr Ross Laurie, will be published in July 2008 by the University of Queensland Press. Also in July, the Museum of Brisbane will launch its exhibition based on Joanne and Ross's research on the Brisbane show.
Joanne is a former Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo. She is a member of the Australian Historical Association's Executive and the Queensland working group for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Joanne is currently researching a history of the Brisbane Exhibition. She is a committed teacher as well as researcher and has completed a postgraduate qualification in university teaching.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Associate Professor Joanne Scott are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Research grants
- Australian Academy of the Humanities grant, Joanne Scott, 2007, A History of the Brisbane Exhibition.
- A History of the Brisbane Exhibition, Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie (UQ), University of the Sunshine Coast Internal Research Grant, 2005-2006. First held in 1876, the Brisbane Exhibition is Queensland's premier agricultural show and one of the largest annual events in Australia. This project retrieves and analyses the history of the Brisbane Exhibition and uses this history to reflect more broadly on Queensland's and Australia's cultural and social history.
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