Participant Info

First Name
Julie
Last Name
Kimber
Country
Australia
State
Affiliation
Swinburne University of Technology
Website URL
https://www.swinburne.edu.au/health-arts-design/staff/profile/index.php?id=jkimber
Keywords
Labour and political history; biography; Vagrancy laws; histories of policing and punishment; Cold War.
Availability
1
Additional Contact Information
PhD
PhD

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About Me

Julie Kimber is an Australian historian based at Swinburne University of Technology. She has edited several book collections on Australian political and labour history. Her research interests include the Cold War, biography, and political/radical/legal history.

Recent Publications
  • Julie Kimber and Charlie Ward, ‘Nubuluna/Daniels, Dexter’ (c. 1936–1999) (biography), Australian Dictionary of Biography. 2021.
  • Julie Kimber, ‘Brian Manning’, Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists / Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute and Bev Symons (eds.), 2020.
  • Julie Kimber and Peter Love, ‘Lloyd Edmunds’, Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists / Bob Boughton, Danny Blackman, Mike Donaldson, Carmel Shute and Bev Symons (eds.) 2020.
  • Julie Kimber, ‘Stoneham, Clive Philip’ (1909–1992), Australian dictionary of biography / Melanie Nolan (ed.) 2019.
  • Phillip Deery and Julie Kimber, ‘Bordering on treason’? Sir Raphael Cilento and pre‐Second World War fascism in Australia, Australian Journal of Politics & History, Vol. 65, no. 2 (Jun 2019).
Media Coverage
2021-05-22: Who Do You Think You Are? (Denise Drysdale) - SBS; 2020-06-23: The Ferry Plot - ABC The History Lesson
Country Focus
Australia
Expertise by Geography
Australia, British Isles, North America, United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Capitalism, Colonialism, Gender, Labor, Law, Local & Regional, Politics, Public History, Race, Urban History, Women, World War I, World War II