Professor Alan Mayne

I hold a Research SA Chair and am Professor of Social History and Public Policy in the Hawke Research Institute, a cross-disciplinary humanities and social sciences research institute at the University of South Australia. The institute is named in honour of former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke.

My research focuses on social life and social policy in Australia, Britain, North America, and South Asia. My research interests and publications range across Australian immigration and settlement policy, cultural heritage interpretation and cultural tourism, historical archaeology, ‘slums’ and urban ‘renewal’ in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, the United States and Australia, urban social policy in contemporary India, and community formation and resilience in regional Australia.

International advisory board, Urban History, 1987–

International editorial board, Journal of Urban History, 2006–

International advisory board, H-URBAN (H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online), 1993–

Member, DEST’s Endeavour Awards selection panel, 2006–

Management committee, South Australian Policy Online, 2006–

ARC assessor, 1994–

History Council of Victoria, 2003–2005

Cultural Heritage Unit, University of Melbourne, 2003–2005

Mount Alexander Diggings Management Board, 2002–2005

Australian Heritage Commission, Chinese Australian Cultural Heritage Project (Chair, Victorian CACH Committee), 2001–2005

Advisory Panel, Access Gallery, Immigration Museum, 2000–2004

Archaeology Advisory Committee, Heritage Council Victoria, 2000–2004

PhD (History) (Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University)

BA (Hons) (Department of History, Australian National University)

• urban poverty and urban sustainability
• social sustainability in rural and regional communities
• cultural heritage and cultural tourism
• cultural heritage of mining
• historical archeology
• immigration and refugee settlement

Authored books

Mayne, A., Building the Village: A History of Australia's Bendigo Bank, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2008.

Mayne, A., Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, 2003.

Mayne, A., Reluctant Italians? One Hundred Years of the Dante Alighieri Society in Melbourne, Dante Alighieri Society, Melbourne, 1997.

Mayne, A., The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914, University of Leicester Press, Leicester, 1993.

Lewis, M., Goad, P. and Mayne, A., Melbourne: The City’s History and Development, City of Melbourne, 1994.

Mayne, A., Representing the Slum: Popular Journalism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Melbourne University History Monograph Series, Melbourne, 1991.

Mayne, A., Fever, Squalor and Vice: Sanitation and Social Policy in Victorian Sydney, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, 1982.

Edited books

Mayne, A. (ed.), 'Outside Country': A History of Inland Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town (under contract for publication early 2010).

Mayne, A. and Fahey, C. (eds.), Gold Tailings: Forgotten Histories of Family and Community on the Central Victorian Goldfields, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, forthcoming 2009.

Gopal, D. and Mayne, A. (eds), Cultural Diversity, Governance and Policy: India-Australia, Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2009.

Mayne, A. (ed.), Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2008.

Mayne, A. (ed.), Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend, Network Books, Perth, 2006.

Mayne, A. and Murray, T. (eds.), The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001.

Chapters in research books

Mayne, A., 'Delineating Multicultural Australia', in G. Bloustien, B. Comber and A. Mackinnon (eds), The Hawke Legacy: Towards a Sustainable Society, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, forthcoming 2009

Mayne, A., 'The Homogenised Other: Cultural Diversity and Social Inequality', in D. Gopal and A. Mayne (eds), Cultural Diversity, Governance and Policy: India-Australia, Shipra Publications, New Delhi, 2009.

Mayne, A., 'Poverty Eradication: Lessons from History', in A. Singh, K Kapoor and R. Bhattacharyya (eds), Governance and Poverty Reduction: Beond the Cage of Best Practices, PHI Learning, New Delhi, 2009.

Mayne, A., 'Beyond the Black Stump', in A. Mayne (ed.), Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2008.

Bishop, P., Duruz, J. and Mayne, A., 'In the Middle of Nowhere: Journeys with the Ghan', in A. Mayne (ed.), Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2008.

Mayne, A., 'Goldrush Landscapes: An Ethnography', in K. Reeves and D. Nichols (eds), Deeper Leads: New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History, BHS Publishing, Ballarat, 2007.

Mayne, A. with Fahey, C., Holst, H. and Martin, S., ‘A Miner’s Right: Making Homes and Communities on the Victorian Goldfields’, in Alan Mayne (ed.), Eureka: Reappraising an Australian Legend, Network Books, Perth, 2006.

Mayne, A. and Zygmuntowicz, K., ‘Changing Fortunes: Post-War Carlton’, in Peter Yule (ed.), Carlton: A History, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, 2004.

Mayne, A., ‘A Road to Nowhere?’, in Tim Murray (ed.), Exploring the Modern City: Recent Approaches to Urban History and Archaeology, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, 2003.

Mayne, A. and Murray, T., ‘The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland’, in Mayne & Murray (eds.), The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes, 2001, pp. 1–7.

Murray, T. and Mayne, A., ‘Imaginary Landscapes: Reading Melbourne’s “Little Lon”’, in Mayne & Murray (eds.), The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes, 2001, pp. 89–105.

Mayne, A., ‘The Early Years of Melbourne’s Dante Alighieri Society’, in R. Pascoe & J. Ronayne (eds.), The Passeggiata of Exile: The Italian Story in Australia, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 45–65.

Refereed journal articles

Mayne, A., 'On the Edges of History: Reflections on Historical Archaeology', American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 1, 2008, pp. 93–118.

Mayne, A., 'Guardians at the Gate: Quarantine and Racialism in two Pacific Rim Port Cities, 1870–1914’, Urban History, vol. 35, no. 2, 2008, pp. 255–274.

Mayne, A., ‘Tall Tales but True? New York’s “Five Points” Slum’, Journal of Urban History, vol. 33, no. 2, 2007, pp. 320–31.

Mayne, A., ‘Big Notes from a Little Street: Historical Research at Melbourne’s “Little Lon”’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, vol. 10, no. 4, 2006, pp. 311–22.

Mayne, A., ‘Community Banking: A Grassroots History’, Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 76, no. 1, 2005, pp. 36–53.

Mayne, A., ‘“What you want John?” Chinese-European Interactions on the Lower Turon Goldfields’, Journal of Australian Colonial History, special issue: ‘Active Voices: Hidden Histories. The Chinese in Colonial Australia’, vol. 6, 2004, pp. 1–13.

Murray, T. and Mayne, A., ‘(Re) Constructing a Lost Community: “Little Lon”, Melbourne, Australia’, Journal of the Society for Historical Archaeology, vol. 37, no. 1, 2003, pp. 87–101.

Mayne, A., Murray, T. and Lawrence, S., ‘Debate: Big Notes from a Little Street: Re/Newing Social History in Melbourne?’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 115, 2000, pp. 328–30.

Mayne, A., ‘In the Nature of Things: Integrating the History and Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia’, Urban History Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2000, pp. 3–5.

Mayne, A., Muray, T. and Lawrence, S., ‘Inside Melbourne’s “Little Lon”’, Urban History Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 2000, pp. 33–46.

Mayne, A., Murray, T. and Lawrence, S., ‘Historic Sites: Melbourne’s “Little Lon”’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 31, no. 113, 2000, pp. 131–51.

Mayne, A., ‘On the Edge of History’, Journal of Urban History, vol. 26, no. 2, 2000, pp. 249–58.

Mayne, A. and Lawrence, S., ‘Ethnographies of Place: A New Urban History Research Agenda’, Urban History, vol. 26, part 3, 1999, pp. 325–48.

Mayne, A. and Murray, T., ‘“In ‘Little Lon’… Wiv Ginger Mick”: Telling the Forgotten History of a Vanished Community’, Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 33, no. 1, 1999, pp. 63–78.

Mayne, A. and Lawrence, S., ‘An Ethnography of Place: Imagining “Little Lon”’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 57, 1998, pp. 93–107.

Reference works

Mayne, A., ‘Eureka Stockade’, in Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2007.

Mayne, A., ‘Five Points’, in David Goldfield (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006.

Mayne, A., ‘Ghetto’, in David Goldfield (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006.

Mayne, A., ‘Slum’, in David Goldfield (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Urban History, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2006.

Mayne, A., ‘Borsari’s Corner’, in Andrew Brown-May (ed.), Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005.

Mayne, A., ‘Collingwood Stockade’, in Andrew Brown-May (ed.), Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005.

Mayne, A., ‘Slums’, in Andrew Brown-May (ed.), Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 2005.

Mayne, A., ‘Melbourne’, in Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember (eds.), Encyclopedia of Urban Culture: Cities and Cultures around the World, Grolier, Danbury, CT, 2002, vol. 3, pp. 172–78.

Mayne, A., ‘Internet Resources’, in G. Davison, J. Hirst and S. Macintyre (eds.), Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, rev. ed. 2001, pp. 348–50.

Mayne, A., Heritage Walk Number 7: ‘Little Lon’, City of Melbourne, Melbourne, 1997.

Multi-media products

Mayne, A., Oxford Reference Online, Australian History web links and summaries. (2003).

Murray, T. and Mayne, A., Vanished Communities: Investigating History at ‘Little Lon’: An ARC-funded CD-ROM, La Trobe University, University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria, 2002.

Brown-May, A. and Mayne, A. ‘Pathways to the Past’: An Interactive Teaching Module in Australian History, 2000. .

Consultant’s research reports

Murray, T. and Mayne, A., Casselden Place Development Archaeological Works: Final Interpretative Report, Prepared for Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd in association with Archaeology Program La Trobe University and Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd, 2004.

Murray, T. and Mayne, A., Casselden Place Development Archaeological Works, Phases 1 & 2: Full Research Design, Prepared for Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd in association with Archaeology Program La Trobe University and Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd, 2002.

Mayne, A., A Contextual History of Hill End, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, 2001.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: History

• urban history
• urban poverty and urban sustainability
• rural and regional Australia
• cultural heritage
• cultural tourism
• immigration and refugee settlement