Nick Dyrenfurth
B Comm Monash, B Litt (Hons) Monash, PhD Monash
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
N.Dyrenfurth@econ.usyd.edu.au
Room 334
H03 - Institute Building,
The University of Sydney,
NSW 2006 Australia
Phone: +61 2 9036 7596
Fax: +61 2 9351 4729
Nick Dyrenfurth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies. He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Labour History and Vice-President of the Sydney Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
Nick previously taught history and politics at Monash University. His main research interests are in Australian labour history, political history and cultural history. He wrote his PhD thesis on the culture of the early Australian Labor Party. Nick has published widely including in the journals Labour History, Australian Studies, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Australian Journal of Political Science and Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal. In 2009 he won the Gollan Prize for Australian labour history. Nick has also written numerous feature and opinion pieces for The Australian, The Age and Canberra Times newspapers.
He is currently undertaking a research project on the ideal of 'mateship' in Australian history. Within a transnational and comparative framework the study aims to trace the genealogy and popularisation of the cultural phenomenon of mateship during the late nineteenth century; it then considers its political deployment in Australia through the first half of the twentieth century; and finally it explores the relevance of the ideal after World War Two and in the context of the multicultural Australian society that negotiates the global world of the twenty-first century.
Together with Paul Strangio he is co-editing and contributing two chapters to a centenary history of the fusion of the non-Labor parties in 1909, to be released by Melbourne University Publishing in 2009. He is also contributing a chapter (with Marian Quartly) on the transnational world of labour movement cartooning for Drawing the Line, an international collection of essays on political cartooning, forthcoming with Monash University E-press this year. And, with Jackie Dickenson and Sean Scalmer, is he co-editing and contributing a chapter to a special journal issue on Australian political history scheduled to appear in the Australian Journal of Politics and History during 2010.
Research Expertise
- Labour History
- The Australian Labor Party
- Australian Political Culture
- Political Leadership
- Political Language
- Political Cartooning
- Mateship
- Citizenship