Overview
Background
Joel Barnes is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry. He works on histories of evolutionary science, education and universities, and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland.
Availability
- Dr Joel Barnes is:
- Available for supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Monash University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
Research interests
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History of science
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History of education
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History of universities
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History of knowledge
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History of humanities
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Science and religion
Works
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2022
Journal Article
Review of Forms of knowledge: developing the history of knowledge Edited by Johan Ostling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar, Nordic Academic Press, 2020
Barnes, Joel (2022). Review of Forms of knowledge: developing the history of knowledge Edited by Johan Ostling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar, Nordic Academic Press, 2020. History of Education Review, 51 (1), 96-98. doi: 10.1108/her-06-2022-094
2022
Book Chapter
“This great principle of the continuity of phenomena”: Edward Aveling on the evolutionism of Darwin and Marx
Barnes, Joel (2022). “This great principle of the continuity of phenomena”: Edward Aveling on the evolutionism of Darwin and Marx. Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. (pp. 121-136) edited by Ian Hesketh. Pittsburgh, PA United States: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2k4fwpr.10
2021
Journal Article
The humanities in Australia and the problem of Europe
Barnes, Joel (2021). The humanities in Australia and the problem of Europe. History of Humanities, 6 (2), 571-593. doi: 10.1086/715940
2021
Journal Article
Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority
Barnes, Joel (2021). Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority. History of the Human Sciences, 35 (2) 09526951211019226, 29-54. doi: 10.1177/09526951211019226
2020
Journal Article
Collegial governance in postwar Australian universities
Barnes, Joel (2020). Collegial governance in postwar Australian universities. History of Education Review, 49 (2), 149-164. doi: 10.1108/her-12-2019-0050
2020
Newspaper Article
Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war
Barnes, Joel (2020, 07 03). Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war The Conversation
2019
Journal Article
Book review: Historicizing humans: deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences
Barnes, Joel (2019). Book review: Historicizing humans: deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences. English Historical Review, 134 (569), 1033-1035. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cez178
2018
Journal Article
Book review: Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain
Barnes, Joel (2018). Book review: Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain. European Review of History, 25 (6), 1087-1089. doi: 10.1080/13507486.2018.1434050
2018
Journal Article
The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909
Barnes, Joel (2018). The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909. Historical Research, 91 (253), 505-527. doi: 10.1111/1468-2281.12234
2014
Journal Article
The right to read: the book censorship abolition league, 1934-37
Barnes, Joel (2014). The right to read: the book censorship abolition league, 1934-37. Labour History, 1 (107), 75-93. doi: 10.5263/labourhistory.107.0075
2013
Journal Article
Book review: W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People, by Ai Kobayashi
Barnes, Joel (2013). Book review: W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People, by Ai Kobayashi. Melbourne Historical Journal, 41, 130-132.
Funding
Past funding
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