Carolyn Strange

Biography

I have studied and taught in Canada (Queen’s University, Carleton University, the University of Toronto); the U.S. (Rutgers University); and Australia (Australian National University). With a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history I have specialised in legal, social, cultural and political history. In addition to my academic publications I endeavour to bridge divides in scholarly communities and to reach out to the wider public to communicate my research. I have curated several museum exhibitions in Toronto, Canberra and Sydney and I have organised public symposia on a range of issues, including prison history tourism, the memory of lost places, environmental anxiety, honour killing and coercive control. In these projects and publications I have worked closely with collaborators in literary studies, law, anthropology, environmental science, criminology, and media studies.

My teaching speciality is graduate training. I have directed graduate studies at the University of Toronto (Criminology) and founded two graduate training programs at ANU (Cross-Cultural Research; History). In addition I have devised and conducted workshops for graduate students in the social sciences and humanities, as well as specialised skills development workshops for history students. I have been awarded fellowships at Warwick University (Institute for Advanced Study); Macquarie University (Law); and the University of Sydney (Law). In 2012 I was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Arts, Education and Creative Media at Murdoch University, Perth, and I served in that position until 2015. In 2016 I was honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. From 2010 to 2016 I served as the external academic assessor for the history  department at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. In 2017 I was appointed Visiting Professor in the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, Toronto In 2018, I was appointed Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Univesity of Toronto In 2021 I was appointed Head of the School of History for a three-year term. In 2022 I was honoured to be elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.