Rowan Strong
Professor
School of Arts
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Rowan Strong has been at Murdoch University since 1992, as the first appointment in church history in the Theology at the university. After gaining a BA in history at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, he studied church history through the Melbourne College of Divinity with a thesis on the origins of Anglo-Catholic missions, and then went on for a doctorate at the University of Edinburgh on the first Tractarian bishop in Britain, who was tried for heresy in 1860. In addition to my university teaching, and supervision of research students, he also teach ordinands in the Anglican formation program in Perth.
Research Interest
Christianity and the British Empire, Colonial Christianity in Australia and New Zealand, The Church of England from the Reformation, The Oxford Movement, Christianity in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Publications
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Strong, R., (2015), Pilgrims, Paupers or Progenitors: Religious Constructions of British Emigration from the 1840s to 1870s, History: the journal of the Historical Association, 100, 341, pages 392 - 411.
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Strong, R., (2015), Origins of Anglo-Catholic Missions: Fr Richard Benson and the initial Missions of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1869-1882, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 66, 1, pages 90 - 99.
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Strong, R., (2015), Archbishop Charles Riley, Theological Education and the Foundation of the University of Western Australia, 1903-c.1929, Journal of Anglican Studies, 13, 1, pages 50 - 67.
