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, and in a variety of other administrative roles.

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) and The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century (2020). He has supervised widely, and has seen some twenty M.Phil and PhD students through to completion.

Martin has served on the executive of the Australian Historical Association for the last six years and convened the 2014 AHA conference at the University of Queensland in 2014. He currently co-edits Australian Historical Studies.

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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

97 works between 2001 and 2025
All (97) Book (6) Journal Article (65) Other Outputs (5) Edited Outputs (2) Conference Publication (2) Book Chapter (17)

61 - 80 of 97 works

2007

Conference Publication

Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920

Crotty, Martin (2007). Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920. Historicising Whiteness Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 November, 2006. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.

Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920

2007

Other Outputs

Australian Masculinities

Moore, C. R. and Crotty, M. A. (2007). Australian Masculinities.

Australian Masculinities

2007

Book Chapter

Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL

Crotty, M. A. (2007). Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL. Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. (pp. 37-54) edited by Allen, M. and Dhawan. R. K.. Janakpuri, New Delhi: Prestige Books.

Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL

2007

Journal Article

Review of the Return to Gallipoli: Walking the battlefields of the great war

Crotty, M. (2007). Review of the Return to Gallipoli: Walking the battlefields of the great war. Australian Journal of Politics And History, 53 (1), 152-153.

Review of the Return to Gallipoli: Walking the battlefields of the great war

2007

Edited Outputs

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Australian Journal of Politics and History. (2007). 53 (2. Special Issue: Australian Citizenship and the Two World Wars)

Australian Journal of Politics and History

2006

Journal Article

History as service teaching : Possibilities and pitfalls

Crotty, Martin and Eklund, Erik (2006). History as service teaching : Possibilities and pitfalls. History Australia, 3 (2), 47.1-47.10. doi: 10.2104/ha060047

History as service teaching : Possibilities and pitfalls

2006

Other Outputs

History's tough lessons still have relevance today

Crotty, Martin (2006, 11 20). History's tough lessons still have relevance today The Courier Mail 17-17.

History's tough lessons still have relevance today

2006

Journal Article

Book review: Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006)

Crotty, Martin (2006). Book review: Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006). Australian Journal of Politics And History, 52 (3), 497-498. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00431.x

Book review: Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006)

2006

Journal Article

Review of Jacqueline Templeton, From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962

Crotty, Martin (2006). Review of Jacqueline Templeton, From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962. API Review of Books (44)

Review of Jacqueline Templeton, From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962

2006

Journal Article

Review of Anne Blair, Ruxton: A Biography

Crotty, Martin A. (2006). Review of Anne Blair, Ruxton: A Biography. API Review of Books (44)

Review of Anne Blair, Ruxton: A Biography

2006

Journal Article

(Book Review) Reconsidering Gallipoli

Crotty, Martin (2006). (Book Review) Reconsidering Gallipoli. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x

(Book Review) Reconsidering Gallipoli

2006

Journal Article

(Book Review) The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War

Crotty, Martin (2006). (Book Review) The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 137-139. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x

(Book Review) The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War

2006

Journal Article

Anzac, the cynics, the sacred and the secular

Crotty, Martin and Barrett, Craig (2006). Anzac, the cynics, the sacred and the secular. History Teacher, 43 (3), 21-28.

Anzac, the cynics, the sacred and the secular

2006

Journal Article

Review of Telling the truth about aboriginal history.

Crotty, M. (2006). Review of Telling the truth about aboriginal history.. Journal of Pacific History, 41 (1), 108-109.

Review of Telling the truth about aboriginal history.

2006

Journal Article

Review of The gates of memory: Australian people's experiences and memories of loss and the great war by T Luckins

Crotty, M A (2006). Review of The gates of memory: Australian people's experiences and memories of loss and the great war by T Luckins. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 139-139.

Review of The gates of memory: Australian people's experiences and memories of loss and the great war by T Luckins

2006

Journal Article

Colour, movement and jostling in public

Casey, Maryrose, Crotty, Martin and Ryan, Delyse (2006). Colour, movement and jostling in public. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (89), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388087

Colour, movement and jostling in public

2006

Book Chapter

Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past

Crotty, Martin and Roberts, David Andrew (2006). Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 1-13) edited by M. Crotty and D.A. Roberts. Sydney, NSW Australia: UNSW Press.

Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past

2006

Journal Article

Review of Bigger than Gallipoli: War, history and memory in Australia by L Reed

Crotty, M A (2006). Review of Bigger than Gallipoli: War, history and memory in Australia by L Reed. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 137-139.

Review of Bigger than Gallipoli: War, history and memory in Australia by L Reed

2006

Book

The Great Mistakes of Australian History

Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts eds. (2006). The Great Mistakes of Australian History. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press.

The Great Mistakes of Australian History

2006

Journal Article

Truths devalued by myth-makers

Barrett, C. A. and Crotty, M A (2006). Truths devalued by myth-makers. The Australian, 1 (1), 1-4.

Truths devalued by myth-makers

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

    Australian Civil Affairs and the Vietnam War

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kate Ariotti

  • 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

    The Experience of the People of Australia's First Nations in the First World War

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Kate Ariotti, Dr Fiona Foley

Completed supervision

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

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