Associate ProfessorCarolyn Holbrook

I am an historian with a particular interest in how historical insights can be applied for the benefit of contemporary society. My work ranges across areas of Australian and comparative cultural, policy and political history, including memory of the First World War and the Anzac legend, public health systems, conceptual understandings of national security, the cultural history of federalism and the place of railways in the Australian imagination. I am the Director of the Australian Policy and History network, and co-editor of Australian Historical Studies. I am on the executive of the Australian Historical Association and the History Council of Victoria.