DrLorinda Cramer
Lecturer
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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- LecturerFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 924 68119 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My current research interests centre on Australian wool – its gendered, worn and material history. I have explored these interests as a National Library of Australia Fellow and Powerhouse Museum Visiting Research Fellow, both for 2023, and as Redmond Barry Fellow for the State Library of Victoria’s 2022 Fellowship Program. Extending from this research, I am also currently pursuing insights into wool's intersections with sustainable, circular fashion and wool 'waste'.
As a research fellow on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘A History of Early Modern Natural Resource Management’, led by Professor Susan Broomhall, I explored two research threads across 2022 and 2023. The first considered women’s involvement in colonial agricultural production, particularly the Australian wool industry. The second investigated gender in the capture of colonial resources for the Empire, focusing on Queen Charlotte's connections to New Holland’s plants and animals.
Between 2019 and 2022, I was postdoctoral researcher on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Men’s Dress in Twentieth-Century Australia: Masculinity, Fashion, Social Change’. Working with Associate Professor Melissa Bellanta, the project captured changing social relations and consumer practices in Australia’s past, offered fresh perspectives on gender, egalitarianism, and fashion, and revealed Australian men's deep engagement with what they wore.
As a research fellow on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘A History of Early Modern Natural Resource Management’, led by Professor Susan Broomhall, I explored two research threads across 2022 and 2023. The first considered women’s involvement in colonial agricultural production, particularly the Australian wool industry. The second investigated gender in the capture of colonial resources for the Empire, focusing on Queen Charlotte's connections to New Holland’s plants and animals.
Between 2019 and 2022, I was postdoctoral researcher on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ‘Men’s Dress in Twentieth-Century Australia: Masculinity, Fashion, Social Change’. Working with Associate Professor Melissa Bellanta, the project captured changing social relations and consumer practices in Australia’s past, offered fresh perspectives on gender, egalitarianism, and fashion, and revealed Australian men's deep engagement with what they wore.