Associate Professor Martin Crotty
Associate Professor

Martin Crotty

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Background

Associate Professor Martin Crotty’s research interests include war and Australian society, sports history, masculinity, and education.

Associate Professor Martin Crotty studied in New Zealand before moving to Australia to undertake postgraduate studies at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. After four years of teaching History at the University of Newcastle in NSW, he took up his current position teaching History at the University of Queensland in early 2003. He has since served as the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School and as the Head of School for the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry from mid-2013 to mid-2017.

Martin's major publications include Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity, 1870-1920 (1901) and a variety of journal articles, book chapters and edited collections, including The Great Mistakes of Australian History (2006), Turning Points in Australian History (2008) and Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of war (2010). He has supervised widely, and has seen some fifteen M.Phil and PhD students through to completion.

Martin has served on the executive of teh Australian Historical Association for the last six years and convened the 2014 AHA conference at the University of Queensland in 2014.

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Fields of research

Historical studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor (Honours), University of Canterbury
  • Masters (Coursework), Monash University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Search Professor Martin Crotty’s works on UQ eSpace

89 works between 2001 and 2024
All (89) Journal Article (57) Book Chapter (17) Conference Publication (2) Book (6) Other Outputs (5) Edited Outputs (2)

1 - 20 of 89 works

2024

Journal Article

Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022

Crotty, Martin and Sendziuk, Paul (2024). Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022. Australian Historical Studies, 55 (3), 1-25. doi: 10.1080/1031461x.2024.2370771

Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022

2021

Book Chapter

The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning

Crotty, Martin and Holbrook, Carolyn (2021). The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning. No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion: And 49 Other Essays that got the World Talking. (pp. 116-119) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames and Hudson.

The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning

2020

Journal Article

Review of - The First World War, the universities and the professions in Australia : , edited by Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne

Crotty, Martin (2020). Review of - The First World War, the universities and the professions in Australia : , edited by Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne. First World War Studies, 11 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/19475020.2020.1805149

Review of - The First World War, the universities and the professions in Australia : , edited by Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne

2020

Journal Article

The history curriculum in New Zealand universities

Sendziuk, Paul and Crotty, Martin (2020). The history curriculum in New Zealand universities. New Zealand Journal of History, 54 (1), 69-93.

The history curriculum in New Zealand universities

2020

Book

The politics of veteran benefits in the twentieth century: a comparative history

Crotty, Martin, Diamant, Neil J. and Edele, Mark (2020). The politics of veteran benefits in the twentieth century: a comparative history. New York, NY, United States: Cornell University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781501751653

The politics of veteran benefits in the twentieth century: a comparative history

2019

Journal Article

The numbers game: history staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities

Crotty, Martin and Sendziuk, Paul (2019). The numbers game: history staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities. Australian Historical Studies, 50 (3), 354-377. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1601750

The numbers game: history staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities

2019

Journal Article

Book review: Brisbane at War 1899-1918

Crotty, Martin (2019). Book review: Brisbane at War 1899-1918. Queensland Review, 26 (1), 183-184. doi: 10.1017/qre.2019.19

Book review: Brisbane at War 1899-1918

2019

Journal Article

‘Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’?: the history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities

Sendziuk, Paul and Crotty, Martin (2019). ‘Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’?: the history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities. History Australia, 16 (2), 239-265. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2019.1590152

‘Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’?: the history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities

2019

Journal Article

What more do you want?: Billy Hughes and Gilbert dyett in late 1919

Crotty, Martin (2019). What more do you want?: Billy Hughes and Gilbert dyett in late 1919. History Australia, 16 (1), 52-71. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2018.1558069

What more do you want?: Billy Hughes and Gilbert dyett in late 1919

2018

Journal Article

Book review: No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education. By Stuart Macintyre, André Brett and Gwilym Croucher. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2017.

Crotty, Martin (2018). Book review: No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education. By Stuart Macintyre, André Brett and Gwilym Croucher. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2017.. Australian Historical Studies, 49 (4), 566-568. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1520081

Book review: No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education. By Stuart Macintyre, André Brett and Gwilym Croucher. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2017.

2018

Journal Article

Charles Bean: man, myth, legacy

Crotty, Martin (2018). Charles Bean: man, myth, legacy. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12433

Charles Bean: man, myth, legacy

2017

Journal Article

War stories: the war memoir in history and literature

Crotty, Martin (2017). War stories: the war memoir in history and literature. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63 (3), 490-491. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12399

War stories: the war memoir in history and literature

2017

Journal Article

In their footsteps? Anzac fun runs and the consumption of the past

Crotty, Martin (2017). In their footsteps? Anzac fun runs and the consumption of the past. Honest History

In their footsteps? Anzac fun runs and the consumption of the past

2017

Book Chapter

The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia

Crotty, Martin (2017). The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia. Legacies of violence: rendering the unspeakable past in modern Australia. (pp. 185-198) edited by Robert Mason. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.

The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia

2016

Journal Article

The war with Germany

Crotty, Martin (2016). The war with Germany. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12213

The war with Germany

2016

Book

Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

Martin Crotty and Robert Hess eds. (2016). Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand. Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives, Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

2016

Book Chapter

The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War

Ariotti, Kate and Crotty, Martin (2016). The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War. Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 68-80) edited by Martin Crotty and Robert Hess. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War

2015

Journal Article

Review of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War

Crotty, Martin (2015). Review of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 139-140.

Review of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War

2015

Book Chapter

Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia)

Crotty, Martin (2015). Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia). 1914-1918-online: international encyclopedia of the First World War. (pp. 1-13) edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer and Bill Nasson. Berlin, Germany: Freie Universitat Berlin. doi: 10.15463/ie1418.10605

Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia)

2015

Journal Article

Art in Oceania: a new history

Crotty, Martin (2015). Art in Oceania: a new history. Journal of Australian Studies, 39 (1), 108-109. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2014.996951

Art in Oceania: a new history

Past funding

  • 2020 - 2021
    The death penalty and the 1st Australian Imperial Force
    Army History Research Grants
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2015
    Anzac Day at home and abroad: a centenary history of Australia's national day (ARC Linkage Project administered by Monash University)
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2007
    Eternal Vigilance: A History of the Returned Serices League of Australia
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004
    True Patriots: A History of the RSL
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Martin Crotty is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Forgotten Women: Australian War Widows and Spinsters in the Aftermath of World War I, 1919-1939

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kate Ariotti

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Australian Army Nurses and war-related trauma in WW1

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Lisa Featherstone

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Boys into Soldiers?: The Politics and Practicalities of Secondary School Cadet Training in Australia and New Zealand, 1939¿1945

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kate Ariotti

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Far from home: war cemeteries and the afterlife of reconciliation

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Dr Nicole Sully

Completed supervision

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  • Australia - history
  • Australian history
  • History - Australian
  • War and Australian society

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