Journal article

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Dairy chains: consumer foodways and agricultural landscapes, Coolabah (2011)

Food is significant as an agent of social change as well as being the subject...

 

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Making a pig of the humanities: re-centering the historical narrative, M/C Journal (2010)

As the name suggests, the humanities is largely a study of the human condition, in...

 

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Pig: a scholarly view (with Donna Lee Brien), M/C Journal (2010)

In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the pigs infamously changed the law to read: “some animals...

 

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Recipes for reading culinary heritage: Flora Pell and her cookery book (with Alison Wishart), ReCollections (2010)

Cookbooks are a wonderful example of material culture — they have historic and social value...

 

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Rewriting the menu: the cultural dynamics of contemporary food choices (with Donna Lee Brien), Text (2010)
 

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We are what we grow: reading a tastescape as a text of cultural history, Text (2010)
 

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Conversations on the river: engaging students in community oral history projects, Oral History Association of Australia Journal (2008)

This paper explores an attempt at bringing together the academic pursuit of scholarship with a...

 

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Reading religion and consuming the past in the feast of Guadalupe (with Andrew Jones), Anthropology of Food (2006)

Fiestas are symbolic events that articulate the popular memory of different social groups. The rituals...

 

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The 'nature' of history teaching, Australian Historical Society Bulletin (2003)
 

Books

Caldera : narrative excursions (with Heather Wearne), School of Arts and Social Sciences (2003)
 

Book Chapter

Faith-based homespace: Decoding good taste in a monastery (with Andrew Jones), Food as communication: Communication as food (2011)
 

Between alimentary products and the art of cooking: the industrialisation of eating at the world fairs - 1888-1893, Consuming culture in the long nineteenth century : narratives of consumption, 1700-1900 (2007)
 

There's no taste like home: the food of empire, Exploring the British world: identity, cultural production, institutions (2004)

Joseph Banks described the homesickness of sailors' aboard the Endeavour by saying that they suffered...

 

Timescapes: flooding and memory, Flood essays across the current (2004)

Floods are agents of both physical and psychological change. Their power to affect cultures and...

 

Writing home (sickness): a time and place for nostalgia, Caldera : narrative excursions (2004)
 

Theses

History making, making histories : traversing the boundaries between contesting and commemorating Australia Day and Columbus Day, PhD thesis, University of New South Wales (1999)
 

Conference presentations

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From 'training in citizenship and home-making' to 'plating up': writing Australian cookbooks for younger readers (with Donna Lee Brien), Ethical imaginations: Writing worlds: Ethical concerns and their implications in literature and writing: 16th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (2011)

In term of popular literature about young people, cookbooks purporting to address children’s obesity and...

 

The pleasure of slow learning: cultivating communities in food education, Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AICEA) Refereed Conference Proceedings (2007)