Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Project Lead, Heritage Studies and Digital Humanities - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart

Mobile: 0439 115567

Email: hmaxwell@une.edu.au

Biography

After graduating with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Hamish worked for the Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow until 1997 when he migrated to Australia. As a Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania, he co-designed the highly successful Lottery of Life exhibition which ran at Port Arthur from 1999-2018. In 2000 he was appointed to the teaching staff in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Tasmania where he worked until 2011 when he was appointed as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas. The following year he took up the Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History at University College Dublin. On his return to the University of Tasmania in 2013 he was appointed Associate Dean Research, for the Faculty of Arts, a position he held until 2016. During that time he established a highly successful diploma in Family History as well as teaching World History at first year level. After a highly successful 23 years at the University of Tasmania he joined the History and Archaeology team at UNE in April 2021.

Employment History

2021- Professor of Heritage and Digital Humanities, University of New England

2020-2021- Adjunct Professor of History, University of New England

2015-2020 - Professor of History, College of Arts, Law and EducationUniversity of Tasmania

2013-2016 - Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, University of Tasmania

2012 - Keith Cameron Chair of Australian History, University College Dublin

2009 -2012 - Associate Professor, History and Classics, University of Tasmania

2005-2008- Senior Lecturer, History and Classics, University of Tasmania

2002-2004 - Lecturer, History and Classics, University of Tasmania

2000-2002 - Associate Lecturer, History and Classics, University of Tasmania

1997-1999 - Port Arthur Research Fellow, History and Classics, University of Tasmania

1993-1996 - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, History of Medicine, University of Glasgow

1990-1992 - Research Assistant, History of Medicine, University of Glasgow

Other positions: Visiting Professorial Fellow, Australian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, February – March 2010

Qualifications

PhD University of Edinburgh

MA University of Edinburgh

Publications

Funded Research

2020,   ARC Linkage Project, LP180101048 —  Assoc Prof. Tony Moore, Prof. Kim Marriot, Prof. Jon McCormack, Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Dr. Nick Carter, Dr. Mike Davis, Griffiths, Dr. Julie Brooks, Dr. Chris Evans, Conviction Politics: The Routes of Australian Democracy

2018    ARC Discovery Project – DP180103952 – Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; Professor Catherine Coleborne; Assoc Prof Jeremy Prichard; Professor Stefan Petrow; Professor Kris Inwood; Professor Hilary Marland; Dr Catherine Cox, The impact of solitary confinement on convicts, 1817-1853

2017    ARC Discovery Project, - DP 170103642 - Professor Martin Gibbs; Assoc Prof David Roberts; Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-72015 ARC Linkage Project - LP140100783: Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Prof Mardi Dungey, Prof Kris Inwood (Guelph), Pof Lucy Frost, Ross Latham, Dr Rebecca Kippen (Melbourne), Capital Offending: Income Work and Crime in Australia’s Convict Era

2015    ARC Linkage Project – LP140100623: Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Assoc Prof Penny Edmonds, Prof Christopher Lueg, Prof Michael Twidale (Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Prof Lucy Frost, Steve Thomas, Treating Criminals from Shore to Ship: Public Health, Humanitarianism and Convict Transportation

2014    ARC Discovery Project - DP140102231: Assoc Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Prof Kris Inwood, Guelph, Prof Barry Godfrey, Liverpool, ARC Discovery, Corn Stalks and New Chums, Crime and Nutritional Status in Settler Australia

2014 Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, Digital Transformation Project - Prof Barry Godfrey, Liverpool, Prof Tim Hitchcock, Sussex, Prof, Bob Shoemaker, Sheffield, Dr Deb Oxley, Oxford, Prof Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Digital Panopticon: The Global Impact of London Punishments, 1780-1925

Memberships

Australian Historical Association

Asia Pacific Economic and Business History Association

Social Science History Association

European Social Sciance History Association

External Profiles