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Email

sscalmer@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor of Australian History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Education
PhD
University of Sydney
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Sydney
ORCID

0000-0002-1697-5457

Prof Sean Scalmer

Professor of Australian History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

117 Scholarly works
6 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Nonviolence Meets Direct Action: A Transnational Encounter of the Interwar Years
    DOI: 10.1017/S1479244325100103
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Michael Quinlan, Contesting Inequality and Worker Mobilisation: Australia 1851–1880
    DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2025.16
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008
    DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2025.2469931
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Winning the Eight-Hour Day in Australia: A Social-Movement Explanation for a Precocious Success
    DOI: 10.1017/S0147547925100070
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Reviewing victories, renewing struggles: The ACTU Congress, Adelaide, South Australia, 4–6 June 2024
    DOI: 10.1177/00221856241293804
  • 2022

    Research grants (international)

    Direct Action and Democracy: Utopia, Experience, Threat
  • 2022

    Research grants (other domestic)

    A History of the Eight Hours Movement
Sean Scalmer

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
NSW Premiers' Awards: General History Prize

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
    DOI: 10.1111/ajph.13020
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Direct Action: The Invention of a Transnational Concept
    DOI: 10.1017/S0020859023000391
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia
    DOI: 10.1080/1031461x.2023.2230665
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-04465-6_11
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Movement, Academy, Struggle: The Transformations of Labour History, Past, Present, and Future
    DOI: 10.3828/labourhistory.2022.20

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2013

    Research Grant

    Graham Berry and the Making of Colonial Democracy
  • 2009

    Research Contracts

    Remaking Australian Politics: Electioneering From the 19th Century to the 21st
  • 2007

    Research Grant

    The Circulation of Nonviolence: Gandhi and the History of Global Politics

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