Associate Professor Joanne Scott

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Associate Professor Joanne Scott

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

Book chapters
  • Scott J. 2004. Unemployed camps. In: (Evans R, Ferrier C, eds), Radical Brisbane: an unruly history, Carlton North, Vulgar Press, 181-186.
  • Scott J, Evans R. 2004. Assassination attempt, 1868. In: (Evans R, Ferrier C, eds), Radical Brisbane: an unruly history, Carlton North, Vulgar Press, 46-50.
  • Scott J. 2003. A man's world?: Gender relations and Geoffrey Blainey's histories. In: (Gare D, et al. eds), The fuss that never ended: essays on the life and work of Geoffrey Blainey, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 67-78, 180-82.
  • Scott J. 2002. Federation: The view from the Chief Secretary's Department In: (Shaw B, ed), Our federation: Brisbane: patriotism, passion and protest 1901, Brisbane: Brisbane History Group.
Journal articles
  • Scott J. 2008. Creating a tradition: Women at the Brisbane Exhibition 1876-1901, Royal Historical Society of Queensland Journal, 20:5, 178-187.
  • Scott J, Laurie R. 2007. Colonialism on display: Indigenous people and artefacts at an Australian agricultural show, Aboriginal History, 31, 45-62.
  • Scott J. 2007. Mechanical contrivances and fancy needlework: The Brisbane Exhibition and education in colonial Queensland, History of Education Review, 36:1, 18-32.
  • Scott J. 2006. Making ends meet: Brisbane women and unemployment in the Great Depression, Queensland Review, 13:1, 51-62.
  • Scott J. 2006. Where are the women?: Denis Murphy and labour history, in (Costar B and Saunders K, eds), Tropical Transformations: Denis Murphy in Queensland History, special issue of the Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 19:8, 158-71.
  • Scott J, Laurie R. 2005. Promise and performance: The Queensland Elections Act 1915 and women's right to stand for parliament, Queensland Review, 12:2, November, 51-61.
  • Scott J, Wanna J. 2005. Trajectories of public administration and administrative history in Australia: Rectifying a curious blight?, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 64:1, March, 11-24. [also published as a reprint on the ANZSOG website].
  • Scott J. 2003. Selling the Sunshine State: The role of an Australian state government and its central agency, 1859-2002, Pacific and American Studies Journal, 3, March, 5-17.
Conference papers
  • Scott J, Laurie R. 2006. All the fun of the fair: Contrasting oral, print and visual sources for a history of the Brisbane Exhibition, Dancing with Memory, Proceedings of the International Oral History Association Conference, Sydney.
  • Scott J. 2005. Intersections of gender and class: Female employers and self-employed workers in interwar Queensland, The Past is Before Us, Ninth National Labour History Conference, Sydney.
  • Scott J. 2004. Education on display: Schoolwork competitions at the Brisbane Exhibition 1876-1883, Keith Moore, (ed.) Social Change, Education and History: Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society Conference Proceedings, Brisbane, QUT.
  • Scott J. 2003. Shoulder to shoulder: White women, work and activism in interwar Queensland. In: (Bowden B, Kellett J, eds), Transforming labour: work, workers, struggle and change, Eighth National Labour History Conference, Brisbane, October, 289-94.

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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