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Associate Professor Jennifer Clark

Jennifer Clark

Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities

Qualifications

BA (Hons I, University Medal) (University of Sydney), Dip Ed (University of Sydney), PhD (University of Sydney)

Contact

Email: jclark1@une.edu.au
Room: E11 G.61
Phone: 02 6773 2127 (or +61 2 6773 2127 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 3520

Awards

Harkness Fellowship
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Responsibilities

Chair, School of Humanities Teaching and Learning Committee
Discipline Convenor, History

Unit Co-ordinator for:

HIST 165 Europe and the New World
HIST 368/568 The Swinging Sixties
HIST 513 Empires: Conquest and Conflict

Course Co-ordinator for:

Master of History

Areas of Teaching

Atlantic History, American History, History of the 1960s, Church History, American Popular Culture

Research interests

  1. Transatlantic Studies (1776-1840) (Anglo-American relations, attitudes to England, American writers about England in the early National Period, American Nationalism, War of 1812)
  2. History of the 1960s (race in the 60s, science in the 60s)
  3. Church History (church closure, American Episcopalians, Methodism)
  4. Memorial Culture (roadside memorials, motoring history, motor museums)
  5. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (lecturing and presentation, curriculum development)

Honours and Post-Graduate Supervision Areas

American History, History of the 1960s, Atlantic History, Trans-Atlantic Studies, Motoring History, Memorial Culture

Recent Publications

Books
Clark, J. ed, Safe and Mobile: Introductory Studies in Traffic Safety (Armidale: EMU Press, 1999) 197 pp.

Clark J. ed., Roadside Memorials: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Armidale: EMU Press, 2007) 219 pp.

Clark, J., Aborigines and Activism: Race, Aborigines and the Coming of the 60s (Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2008) 308 pp.

Book Chapters
Clark, J. ‘Religious Life’, High Lean Country: Land, People and Memory in New England, Alan Atkinson, J.S. Ryan, Iain Davidson and Andrew Piper eds, (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2006), pp. 184-195.

Clark, J., ‘Seeing the Dead: Roadside Memorials and the Narrative of the Invisible’ in Roadside Memorials: A Multidisciplinary Approach, (Armidale: EMU Press, 2007), pp. 82-93.

Clark J., ‘Introduction’ in Roadside Memorials: A Multidisciplinary Approach, (Armidale: EMU Press, 2007), pp. 3-10.

Clark J., ‘Your Spot’: Making Place with Roadside Memorials’ in Frank Vanclay, Matthew Higgins and Adam Blackshaw eds, Making Sense of Place: Exploring Concepts and Expressions of Place Through Different Senses  and Lenses (Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2008), pp. 164-173.

Clark J., Cushing, N. and Oakley, R., ‘Competing Voices: Seeking Pleasure and Representing Death on the Pacific Highway’ in Stephen Gregory ed., Shop til you drop: essays on consuming and dying in Australia (Sydney: Southern Highland Publishers, 2008), pp. 106-123.

Clark J and Franzmann M., ‘The Making of Roadside Memorials’ in Sarah Earle, Carol Komaromy and Caroline Bartholomew, Death and Dying: A Reader (Sage Publications, 2009), pp. 189-196.

Refereed Journal Articles
Clark, J and Franzmann M., ' “A father, a son, my only daughter”: memorialising road trauma', RoadWise 13.3 ( 2002), pp. 4-10. (50%)

Clark, J. ‘Poisoned Pens: The Anglo-American Relationship and the Paper War’, Symbiosis: The Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, 6.1(2002), pp. 45-68.

Clark J., and Cheshire A., ‘RIP by the roadside: A comparative study of roadside memorials in New South Wales, Australia and Texas, USA’, Omega, 48.3(2003-2004), pp. 229-248.

Clark J. and Franzmann, M., ‘Authority from Grief, Presence and Place in the Making of Roadside Memorials’, Death Studies, 30.6(2006), pp. 579-599.

Clark, J., ‘ “This special shell”: The Church Building and the Embodiment of Memory’, Journal of Religious History, 31.1(2007), pp. 59-77 Festschrift issue for Tony Cahill and Patrick O’Farrell

Clark, J., ‘Views of the Verge: Roadside Memorials and Local Government Policies’, Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 18.2(2007), pp. 29-33.

Clark J., ‘PowerPoint and Pedagogy: Maintaining Student Interest in University Lectures’, College Teaching, 56.1(Winter 2008), pp.  39-45.

Clark J., ‘Challenging the Functionalism of the Road with Roadside Memorials: Australia and New Zealand’, Journal of Transport History, 29.1 (2008), pp. 23-43.

Clark, J., ‘The Problematic Church Building’, Australian Religion Studies Review (in press)

Clark, J., ‘Church Closure in Australia: New Opportunities for Church Historians?’, International Journal of the Humanities 6.7 (2008), pp. 139-150.

Clark, J., ‘The Material Culture of Road Safety: Road Safety as Museum Display?’, Journal of the Australian College of Road Safety, 20.3 (2009), pp. 56-62.