University of Tasmania, Australia

Dr Tom Dunning

Senior Lecturer

BA, MA, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Details

Tom Dunning is Senior Lecturer in the School, specializing in North American History.

Career Summary

University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1969-1971, Lecturer
La Trobe University, Melbourne, 1971-1979, Lecturer
University of Tasmania, (including years at TSIT),1985-present, Senior Lecturer and Head of School

Please click here to link to the Utas Web Access Research Portal (WARP) which lists Tom's funded projects, graduate research supervision and publication information.

Research Interests

Current projects include the Social and Cultural Life of the Plebeian Peoples of Scotland and the American Civil War and Cultural Memory.

Units

• HTA102 - History 1B: Making the Modern World
  
• HTA242 - Colonial USA, 1607-1789
  
• HTA249 - Atlantic Worlds, 1450-1807
  
• HTA252 - African-American History
  
• HTA255 - War and Peace in the Pacific
  
• HTA275 - History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
  
• HTA355 - War and Peace in the Pacific
  
• HTA375 - History of the Indigenous Peoples of North America
  

Current and Supervised Project/s:

• "A Model Among Towns": A Study of Progressivism in Launceston During the Interwar Period
• Convicts & the law in VDL - how they used the legal processes available to their own advantage
• Educating the Masses: the intentional authoring of Native American identity in the early nineteenth century
• The History of the Wine Industry in Tasmania
• Destructing and Reconstructing The Martin Cash/James Lester Burke Narrative/Manuscript of 1870
• Representations of Landscapes by Artists and Filmmakers
• The Experience of Exile: North American Political Prisoners in Van Diemen
• A Social History of Colonial Campbell Town for the Period April 1854 to May 1855 through the eyes of Diarist, Miss Sarah Leake of Rosedale
• Across the Tasman Sea: Movement between Launceston and Dunedin 1840-1914 in the Nineteenth Century
• The Contribution of C.H.Spurgeon
• Visitors in the Wilderness at Waldheim
• The Mole Creek Pack Track Between Central & Western Tasmania