Kate Darian-Smith

Brief description

Professor Kate Darian-Smith is Executive Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania. She is a cultural and social historian and cross-disciplinary scholar and her research has been supported by continuous ARC grants since 1999, and by other competitive research funds. She publishes in Australian and imperial histories; memory studies and oral history; histories of childhood, war, media, migration and design; and museology, public history and cultural heritage.Before joining the University of Tasmania in December 2017, Professor Darian-Smith held a joint appointment at the University of Melbourne as Professor of Australian Studies and History, Faculty of Arts and Professor of Cultural Heritage and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning.Professor Darian-Smith was employed at the University of Melbourne from 1995, holding senior leadership positions including the Director of The Australian Centre; Head of the History Program; Head of School; Associate Dean (International); Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Arts. Previous positions were as Deputy Director, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London (1991-94).

Full description

Associate Professor Kate Darian-Smith is Director of the Australian Centre, and also teaches in the Department of History. She is the Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Arts.She has interests in Australian cultural and social history, particularly in the twentieth century; war and Australian society, with reference to gender; the relationship between memory and history; museum studies and forms of exhibiting histories and cultures; and colonial discourse and postcolonial studies. Her curre...