Gregory Melleuish

MA (Sydney), PhD (Macquarie)

Gregory Melleuish was awarded a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney for a thesis on the intellectual history of colonial New South Wales, and a doctorate from Macquarie University for his study of the tradition of cultural liberalism in Australia. He has taught European history at the University of Melbourne, Australian Studies at the University of Queensland, and now teaches Australian politics, Australian political ideas, political theory and European and world history in the History and Politics Program at the University of Wollongong.

Gregory has organised a number of conferences and seminars, including the V G Childe Centenary conference in 1990. His current research projects include a study of three Australian intellectuals of the 1930s, Randolph Hughes, A R Chisholm and Carl Kaeppel, for which he was awarded a large ARC grant, a history of cultural conservatism in the twentieth century and the political culture of colonial New South Wales, Australia. In April 2000 he became President of the Asia Pacific Affiliate Branch of the World History Association and is concerned with promoting World History. He is a co-ordinator of the War, Community and Civilisations research unit.

He has also been involved in the History Wars controversy with Stuart Macintyre. Click here for his view on the origin of the word History.

Greg is a member of the Foundation Council of the Constitution Education Fund Australia. CEF-A recently launched the Governor-General's prize for tertiary students. See photograph below:

Research interests

Gregory's research interests include:

• Australian political culture
• Australian intellectual history with an emphasis on political, cultural and religious ideas
• World history, in particular the role of the state, war and commercial activity.

Major publications

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

• 1990 (editor), Australia as a Social and Cultural Laboratory?, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland.

• 1995, Cultural Liberalism in Australia, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

• 1995 (with Terry Irving and Peter Gathercole as joint editors), Childe and Australia, University of Queensland Press.

• 1998, The Packaging of Australia, Sydney, UNSW Press.

• 'Civilisation, Culture and Police', Arts, vol. 20, 1998, pp 7-25.

• 'V. Gordon Childe: perspektywa australiiska' in V. Gordon Childe I ARCHEOLOGIA w XX wieku, Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 1999, 91-8.

• 'Metahistory Strategies in Nineteenth Century Australia', Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol 1, no. 2, 1999, pp. 80-102.

• 'Globalisation: "Politics" versus "Economics"', Policy, vol. 15, no. 1, 1999, pp 48-50.

• 'Distributivism: The Australian Political Ideal?', Journal of Australian Studies, no. 62, 1999, pp. 20-9.

• 'Hughes and the European Right', in Franz Oswald and Maureen Perkins (eds), Europe-Divided or United?, Canberra, Southern Highlands Press, 2000, 369-82.

• 'Christianity and Australian Politcal Thought', St Mark's Review, no. 181, Autumn 2000, 24-32.

E-Mail: gmelleui@uow.edu.au
Telephone: +61 02 4221 4395