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Leigh Boucher


Department of Modern History, Politics and International Rel
Macquarie University
Australia

Biography

I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2006 under the supervision of Joy Damousi. My doctoral research investigated the relationship between political rights, gender difference and settler colonialism in nineteenth century Victoria. After the completion of my thesis I lectured in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University and in 2007 was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship (UK) to undertake research at the Centre for History and Theory at Roehampton University. Recently I have published work that emerged out of my doctoral research and other work that centres on gender and sexuality in contemporary Australian political and cultural life. At present I am completing a manuscript that investigates the relationship between settler colonialism, suffrage and sovereignty in the nineteenth century British World. I am also an investigator on an ARC-funded project with Prof Lynette Russell that traces the influences of anthropology and anthropologists on the history of Aboriginal protection in the 19th century British world. I am also currently the secretary of the Australian Historical Association.

Research Interest

My research centres on the construction and representation of difference in liberal democratic political and popular cultures. This has produced work that investigates a wide variety of historical contexts and representations. This includes research on the dynamic of settler-colonialism and changing constructions of manhood in nineteenth century Victoria, anthropological constructions of the "Aborigine" in nineteenth century Australia, sexuality in contemporary historical films, contestations over masculinity in the representation of the AFL, and the impact of changing ideas about sexuality on the operation of citizenship in late-modern Australia.

Publications

  • Bapteste E, Boucher Y, Leigh J, Doolittle WF. Phylogenetic reconstruction and lateral gene transfer. Trends in microbiology. 2004 Sep 30;12(9):406-11.

  • Knowles MR, Hohneker KW, Zhou Z, Olsen JC, Noah TL, Hu PC, Leigh MW, Engelhardt JF, Edwards LJ, Jones KR, Grossman M. A controlled study of adenoviral-vector–mediated gene transfer in the nasal epithelium of patients with cystic fibrosis. New England Journal of Medicine. 1995 Sep 28;333(13):823-31.

  • Boucher L, Carey J, Ellinghaus K. Re-orienting whiteness: transnational perspectives on the history of an identity

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