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Dr Andrea Gaynor

BA (Hons), PhD W. Aust

Tel: 61 08 6488 2137
Fax: 61 08 6488 1069
Email: agaynor@arts.uwa.edu.au

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching & Research Interests
Australian environmental history and the history of science and technology, urban history, heritage and history, Australian studies, animals in history, history of consumption, garden history.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

'Colonists and the Land: An environmental history of nineteenth-century Australia', in Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, Thompson, South Melbourne, 2008, pp. 144-153.

with Jane Davis (50%), 'People, Place and the Pipeline: Visions and impacts of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme, 1896-1906', in Marnie Leybourne and Andrea Gaynor (eds), Water: Histories, Cultures, Ecologies, UWA Press, Crawley, 2006, pp. 15-26.

Refereed Articles

with Ian McLean, 'Landscape Histories: Mapping Environmental and Ecological Change through the Landscape Art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia', Environment and History, Vol. 14, no. 2, 2008.

with Sarah Brown, Steve Dovers, Jodi Frawley, Heather Goodall, Grace Karskens and Steve Mullins, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', History Australia, vol 5, no. 1, April 2008

with David Trigger, Jane Mulcock, and Yann Toussaint, 'Ecological Restoration, Cultural Preferences and the Negotiation of 'Nativeness' in Australia', Geoforum, vol 39, 2008, 1273-1283. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.05.010

A. Gaynor, 'Animal Agendas: Conflict Over Productive Animals in Twentieth-Centure Australian Cities', Society and Animals, vol. 15, no. 1, 2007, pp.29-42.

Technical Reports

with A. Kendrick and M. Westera, An Oral History of Fishing and Diving in the Capes Region of South-West Western Australia. Project CM.01a July 2008, University of Western Australia, School of Humanities and School of Plant Biology, Report to the South West Catchments Council

Further Publications

Harvest of the Suburbs: an environmental history of growing food in Australian cities, UWA Press, Crawley, 2006.

with I. McLean, �The Limits of Art History: Towards an Ecological History of Landscape Art�, Landscape Review, vol.11, no.1, 2005

��Like a Good Deed in a Naughty World�: Gardens on the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia�, Australian Humanities Review, no.36, 2005.

�Animal Husbandry and House Wifery? Gender and Suburban Household Food Production in Perth and Melbourne, 1890-1950�, Australian Historical Studies, vol.24, 2004, pp.238-254.

�Looking Forward, Looking Back: Towards an Environmental History of Salinity and Erosion in the Eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia�, in A. Gaynor, A. Haebich and M. Trinca (eds), Country: Visions of Land and People in Western Australia, W.A. Museum, Perth, 2002, pp.105-124.

�Report on the History of the Arrival of the Feral Cat Population in Western Australia�, CALMScience, vol.3, no.2, 2000, pp.149-179.

�Regulation, Resistance and the Residential Area: the Keeping of Productive Animals in Twentieth-Century Perth, Western Australia�, Urban Policy and Research, vol. 17, no. 1, 1999, pp.7-16.

�From Chook Run to Chicken Treat: Speculation on Changes in Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth-Century Perth, Western Australia�, Limina, vol. 5, 1999, pp.26-39.

Memberships
Australian Historical Association, International Australian Studies Association

Current Research

Histories of: Australians in Hong Kong; right-wing ecology in Australia; fish and fishing around the south-west capes; people and wandoo (Eucalyptus wandoo) in south-west Australia.

Teaching for both 2009 and 2010

2009
Sem 2: Study Leave

2010
Sem 1: AUST1100 - Australia: Representation & Experience
Sem 2: HIST2220 - Making History

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