Dr Kyle Harvey is a Specialist Associate Research Fellow based in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. His research interests encompass media history, migration history, and the history of radicalism in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, North America and the Pacific. Kyle has related research interests in oral history, performance studies, memory, biography, and the history of education.

Kyle has published widely on the interconnected histories of migration, cultural diversity, and television in Australia, including the book Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History (co-authored with Kate Darian-Smith, Sue Turnbull and Sukhmani Khorana, 2025). He is especially interested in the politics of representation, identity, and memory within the arts and screen sectors, and has published in Media International Australia and in numerous edited collections.

At Monash University, Kyle is a Research Fellow involved in the study of comedy in Australia, and especially the social, cultural and political mechanisms of change in the stand-up comedy industry.

Elsewhere, Kyle has published on the political culture and social worlds of the left during the Cold War years, with a focus on the transnational connections embraced by individuals and communities within the Pacific world from the 1950s to the 1980s. He has published on these themes in History Australia, Labour History, the Journal for the Study of Radicalism and in numerous handbooks and edited collections. His first book is American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Kyle's research has been funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2017), the State Library of New South Wales (2013), the Australia & New Zealand History of Education Society (2018), the Australia & New Zealand American Studies Association (2008), the University of California-Los Angeles (2008), and Smith College (2009).

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