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Prof

Andrew May

Professor In Australian History
Historical and Philosophical Studies
Social History
Urban History
Cultural Heritage
Public Space
Cities
History of Melbourne
Khasi Hills in India
Missionaries
Public History
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Andrew May

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Social History
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects by Andrew May.

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TIME-LAYERED CULTURAL MAP OF AUSTRALIA (ARC CASH)

2019 - 2020
Completed
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Protecting Endangered Heritage in the Abode of Clouds, Meghalaya: Critical Materials from the Khasi Cultural Transformation and Folklore Traditions

2019 - 2021
Active
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Workplace Fatalities

2019 - 2019
Completed
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Ki Khun U Hynñiewtrep: a transnational approach to Indigenous culture and history

2017 - 2017
Completed
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Northeast India: histories of British colonialism and its aftermath

2016 - 2016
Completed
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MCRIP SUPPORT FOR THE SOCIAL & CULTURAL INFORMATICS PLATFORM

2014 - 2016
Completed
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Colonial northeast India: Indigenous cultures and identities

2014 - 2014
Completed
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SUBURBAN ARCHAEOLOGY: APPROACHING AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE CLASS IN 19TH CENTURY MELBOURNE

This project has three main benefits. First, it will help Australians understand more about the richness and diversity of urban experience i..

2010 - 2013
Completed
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Who Am I? The archive as central to quality practice for current and past care leavers (Forgotten Australians)

The project responds to the recommendations of the Forgotten Australians and its predecessor Reports about the need to improve record-keepin..

2009 - 2012
Completed
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Who Am I? The archive as central to quality practice for current and past care leavers (Forgotten Australians)

The project responds to the recommendations of the Forgotten Australians and its predecessor Reports about the need to improve record-keepin..

2009 - 2012
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

8

Research Contracts

6

Research Grant

4

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Andrew May.

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Untimely ends: place, kin and culture in coronial inquests

Andrew May, Helen Morgan, Nicole Davis, Sue Silberberg, Roland Wettenhall

Journal article  |  2020  |  Provenance: The journal of Public Record Office Victoria

This article explores the utility of using the rich holdings of coronial inquests in the collection of Public Record Office Victor..

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Luly Collection with geocoding

MITCHELL HARROP, Andrew May

Dataset  |  2020

This dataset contains latitudes and longitudes computationally generated from the descriptions of individual photographs in the Lu..

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Time-Layered Cultural Map of Australia

Paul Longley Arthur, Erik CHAMPION, Hugh Craig, Ning Gu, Mark Harvey, Victoria Haskins, Andrew May, Bill Pascoe, Alana Piper, Lyndall Ryan, Rosalind Smith, Deb Verhoeven

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  CEUR Workshop Proceedings

This paper reports on an Australian project that is developing an online system to deliver researcher-driven national-scale infras..

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Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales

Andrew J May

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Historical Studies

In the introduction to his family memoir Lost Relations (2015), Graeme Davison freely admits that the disdain with which he once v..

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A Naga Odyssey: Visier's Long Way Home

Andrew J May

Journal article  |  2019  |  Victorian Historical Journal

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Returning to the city: World war one, the repatriation of soldiers and the shaping of melbourne

NJ Davis, G Vanags, AJ May

Journal article  |  2019  |  History Australia

In Melbourne, a city in which World War One permeated everyday life, programs for the reintegration of soldiers into the community..

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Report on Historic Workplace (Occupation) Fatalities

Andrew May, Roland Wettenhall, Henry Reese, Gretel Evans

Report  |  2019

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Contours from Contoured Plan of Part of the City of Melbourne (1853)

MITCHELL HARROP, Andrew May

Dataset  |  2019

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Contours from Contour Plan of Portion of the City of Melbourne (1880)

MITCHELL HARROP, Andrew May

Dataset  |  2019

Contours from 1880 Contour plan of portion of the City of Melbourne, Victoria Australia, Department of Crown Lands and Survey. His..

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Weston Bate (1924-2017) OBITUARY

Andrew J May

Journal article  |  2018  |  AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Historical Studies
Understanding Past Societies
Expanding Knowledge
Curatorial and Related Studies
Architecture and Urban Environment
Heritage
Other History and Archaeology
Religion and Religious Traditions
Architecture
Cultural Studies

News

Displaying the 5 most recent news articles by Andrew May.

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Part 2: Things we know at the end of 2020

Jeannie Paterson, Clayton Chin, Andrew May, Anna Meredith

December 28, 2020
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Journal of the plague year

Andrew May

April 21, 2020
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When department stores were more than just stores

Andrew May, Jackie Dickenson

May 30, 2018
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The stories of a city

Andrew May

March 20, 2017
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Lockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places

Andrew May, James Lesh

June 7, 2016

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2006

City of Melbourne - Melbourne Award for Individual Contribution to City Profile
2004

Arts Faculty - Dean's Teaching Award
1999

Victorian Government - Victorian Community and Local History Award
1996

Australian Historical Association - Prize for Australian History
1996

Urban History Association (USA) - Best Dissertation in Urban History
1995

Urban History (UK) - H.J.Dyos Prize for best article
2018

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2013

NOTINLIST - Not in List

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor In Australian History

Historical and Philosophical Studies

Historian Member

Victorian Heritage Council

International Board Member

Urban History

International Committee Member

European Association for Urban History

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

North-Eastern Hill University

India

University of Wales, Swansea

United Kingdom