Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Kate is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History and teaches History and International Studies. Kate has special interests in the history of the family and postwar social movements, and is currently researching the history of fatherhood in twentieth century Australia as part of the Australian Research Council funded research project Fatherhood: an Australian history 1919-2019, with team members Mike Roper (Essex University), John Murphy (University of Melbourne) and Monash colleagues Alistair Thomson, Johnny Bell and Jill Barnard.
Kate is a graduate of the University of Tasmania (where she was a University medallist) and Monash University. Her PhD, which addressed the meanings attached to the city and the country in early twentieth-century public life in Australia, won a 2007 Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal.
Kate's first book, Fears and Fantasies: Modernity, Gender, and the Rural-Urban Divide (Peter Lang, 2010) explored the powerful influence of rurality in shaping Australian culture and modernity more broadly.
Kate authored (with co-author Professor Graeme Davison) a history of Monash University entitled University Unlimited: The Monash Story (Allen and Unwin, 2012). The history spans the founding of Monash in the full flush of post-war prosperity, the baby boom and the growing demand for higher education; the student experience and 'troubles' of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when it became a symbolic centre for student radicalism in Australia; and the reforms and expansion from the late 1980s that have transformed Monash into Australia's largest and most international university.
Network
Projects
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Fatherhood: an Australian History, 1919-2019
Thomson, A., Murphy, K., Murphy, J. & Roper, M.
1/03/19 → 28/02/22
Project: Research
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Literature Review: Older children, children with special needs, and intercountry adoption; risks, adjustment, cultural issues, and placement outcomes, 1990 to present.
Cuthbert, D., Murphy, K. & Spark, C.
9/05/08 → 30/06/08
Project: Research
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Student Activism at the University of New England in Australia’s “Long 1960s”
Murphy, K., 14 May 2019, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 43, 2, p. 174-187 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
The countercultural new left “Down Under”: student activism at the university of New England, Australia
Murphy, K., Oct 2019, In: The Sixties. 12, 2, p. 178-204 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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From the Paddock to the Agora: Fifty Years of La Trobe University
Murphy, K., 2018, In: Australian Historical Studies. 49, 4, p. 569 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Short Review › Other › peer-review
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In the backblocks of capitalism: Australian student activism in the global 1960s
Murphy, K., 2015, In: Australian Historical Studies. 46, 2, p. 252 - 268 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
9 Citations (Scopus) -
Pasts present: history at Australia's third university
Murphy, K., 2015, In: Australian Historical Studies. 46, 2, p. 336 1 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
Activities
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Australian Feminist Studies (Journal)
Kate Murphy (Peer reviewer)
13 Feb 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Australian Book Review (Journal)
Kate Murphy (Peer reviewer)
1 Dec 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility
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Bernie Taft and 1968: Tanks in Prague, Turmoil in Australian Universities
Kate Murphy (Invited speaker)
24 Aug 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to workshop, seminar, course
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Labour History (Journal)
Kate Murphy (Editorial board member)
1 May 2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
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History Australia (Journal)
Kate Murphy (Peer reviewer)
14 Mar 2018Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review responsibility