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BA (Hons), University of Sydney; PhD, University of New South Wales
Tel: (61 8) 6488 2191
Fax: (61 8) 6488 1069
Email: susiep@arts.uwa.edu.au Honours Co-ordinator (History Program)
Research Interests
European empires in Asia Dutch colonialism (17th-20th centuries) Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia) Environment and culture Visual culture and history Histories of food and eating Colonialism, migration and identity
Publications
BOOKS Susie Protschky, Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (under negotiation with KITLV Press). JOURNALS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES Susie Protschky, 'The flavour of history: Food, family and subjectivity in two Indo-European women's memoirs', Journal of the History of the Family, Special Issue: 'The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family', edited by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Susie Protschky (forthcoming December 2009). Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Susie Protschky, 'Families, frontiers and the New Imperial History', Journal of the History of the Family, Special issue: 'The Domestic Frontier: European Colonialism, Nationalism and the Family', edited by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Susie Protschky (forthcoming December 2009). Susie Protschky, 'The colonial table: Food, culture and Dutch identity in colonial Indonesia', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54(3), September 2008, pp. 346-357. Susie Protschky, 'Seductive landscapes: Gender and European representations of nature in the Dutch East Indies in the late colonial period', Gender & History, 20(2), August 2008: 372-398. Susie Protschky, 'Nature, landscape and identity in colonial Indonesia: Literary constructions of being Dutch in the tropics', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 164(1), April 2008: 13-37.
Current research Food and culture in the Netherlands Indies, 19th and 20th centuries; Still lifes and market scenes in Dutch painting, 17th to 20th centuries (UWA Research Development Award). Dutch colonialism in Brazil under the Govenorship of Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen (building, art projects, collecting, naming practices; early modern subordinate male identities).
Teaching
HIST2250 Empires, Ecology and Cultural History
HIST2252 Expanding the Raj: British Imperialism
HIST2258 Indonesian History, 14th to 20th centuries
Memberships Australian Research Council Network for Early European Research http://www.neer.arts.uwa.edu.au/
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