Dr Frank Bongiorno
Senior Lecturer, School of Classics, History and Religion
Qualifications
BA (Melb.) PhD (ANU) GradCertHighEd (UNE)
Contact
| Email: | fbongior@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2088 (or +61 2 6773 2088 overseas) |
Areas of Teaching
HIST 329/429, Australia and the World: An International History (Semester 2, 2006)
HIST 330, Australian Local History (Semester 1, 2006)
HIST 359, War and Society in Twentieth-Century Australia (Not on offer in 2006)
HIST 378, Sexuality in Australian History (Semester 2, 2006)
HIST 454, Imagining Australia: Empire, Nation, Sovereignty (Semester 2, 2006)
Research interests
My main research interests are in the field of Australian political, labour and cultural history. I have recently supervised or co-supervised to completion honours and postgraduate students in the fields of Queensland political/business history; Australian rural labour history; Australian foreign and defence policy; and the social history of the Second AIF in World War Two.
Publications
Book
The People’s Party: Victorian Labor and the Radical Tradition, 1875-1914, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1996 (253 pages)
Refereed Articles, Book Chapters and Conference Papers
'Class, Populism and Labour Politics in Victoria, 1890-1914', Labour History, No. 66, May 1994, pp. 14-32.
‘Constituting Labour: the Radical Press in Victoria, 1885-1914’, in Ann Curthoys and Julianne Schultz (eds.), Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture, University of Queensland Press in association with the Australian Studies Centre at the University of Queensland, and the Journal of Australian Studies, 1999, pp. 70-82.
‘Bernard O’Dowd and the ‘Problem’ of Race’, in Robert Hood and Ray Markey (eds.), Labour and Community: Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Illawarra Branch, Wollongong, 1999, pp. 32-6.
‘Bernard O’Dowd’s Socialism’, Labour History, No. 77, November 1999, pp. 97-116.
‘From Republican to Anti-Billite: Bernard O’Dowd and Federation’, The New Federalist, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 49-57.
‘Commonwealthmen and Republicans: Dr. H.V. Evatt, the Monarchy and India’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 33-50.
‘Lygon Street Blues: Federation and the Emergence of the Labor Party in Victoria’, New Federalist, No. 5, June 2000, pp.22-32.
‘An Antipodean Christminster? The campaign for evening lectures at the University of Melbourne, 1890-2’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, Vol. 2, No. 2, October 2000, pp. 1-27.
‘Aboriginality and Historical Consciousness: Bernard O’Dowd and the creation of an Australian national imaginary’, Aboriginal History, Vol. 24, 2000, pp. 39-61.
‘Love and Friendship: Ethical Socialism in Britain and Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 32, No. 116, April 2001, pp. 1-19.
‘Good Vibrations: An exploration of ‘new age’ socialism in Australia, 1890-1914’, in Phil Griffiths and Rosemary Webb (eds.), Work, Organisation, Struggle: Papers from the seventh national labour history conference, Held at the Australian National University, Canberra, April 19-21, 2001, The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra Region Branch, Canberra, 2001, pp. 50-7
‘The Origins of Caucus 1856-1901’, in Stuart Macintyre and John Faulkner (eds.), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 2001, pp. 3-16.
‘Every Woman a Mother: radical intellectuals, sex reform and the “woman question: in Australia, 1890-1918’, Hecate, Vol.27, No.1, 2001, pp. 44-64.
‘H.V. Evatt, Australia and Ireland’s Departure from the Commonwealth: A Reassessment’, Irish Historical Studies, Vol.XXXII, No.128, November 2001, pp. 537-55.
‘Reputation of a Romantic’, Meanjin, Vol.62, No.2, May-June 2003, pp. 137-151.
‘Origins of the Present Crisis? Fabianism, Intellectuals and the Making of the Whitlam Government’, in It’s Time Again: The Whitlam Government as Modernist Politics, Circa/Melbourne Publishing Group, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 311-338.
‘A Short History of New Thought in Australia, 1890-1914’, ACH (Australian Cultural History), 23, 2004, pp. 25-42.
‘”British to the Bootstraps?”: H.V. Evatt, J.B. Chifley and Australian Policy on Indian Membership of the Commonwealth, 1947-49’, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 37, No. 125, April 2005, pp. 18-39.
‘Remembering Ol’ 55: the Victorian Fabian Society and the road to intervention’, in Brian Costar, Peter Love and Paul Strangio (eds.), The Great Labor Schism: A Retrospective, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2005, pp. 324-39.
‘The Price of Nostalgia: Menzies, the “Liberal” Tradition and Australian Foreign Policy’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, No. 3, September 2005, pp. 400-17.
‘Fabian Socialism and British Australia, 1890-1972’, in Phillip Buckner and Doug Francis (eds.), Rediscovering the British World, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, 2005, pp. 209-31 (chap. 9). (forthcoming)
Selected Other Publications(Since 2001)
‘Inside view of academic life: history’, Education Age, 7 February 2001, p.16.
‘Precedents: Our Refugee Impasse Is Not New’, Eureka Street, Vol. 11, October 2001, pp. 10-11. (Republished as ‘History: Conditions Precedent’, in Workers Online, Issue 115. <http://workers.labor.net.au>.
‘The End of the Affair? Unions, Citizens and Future of the ALP’, appeared in the online journal, the Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs (Published by the School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney) <http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/drawingboard/digest/0201/bongiorno.html> (ISSN 1443-8607) 16 January 2002, pp. 1-4.
‘The Forgotten People: The crisis in Australian Undergraduate Education’, Overland, No, 168, Spring 2002, pp. 56-62.
‘Frederick John Riley’, in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002, p. 94.
‘John Solomon Rosevear’, in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002, pp. 130-1.
‘Katz, Frederick Carl (1877-1960)’, in Ann Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 2, 1929-1962, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2004, pp. 165-9.
‘Telling Labor’s Stories’, Australian Fabian News, Vol. 45, No. 3, July-September 2005, pp. 11-14.