Amanda Laugesen 

Position

Lecturer, American Studies

Qualifications

BA(Hon) (ANU), PhD (ANU)

Current teaching

HIST 1702: New World Nations, 1800-1918
AMST 2004: Twentieth Century America
AMST 3009: The American Civil War
AMST 7012: The American West Colonies, Empire and Revolution: North America 1500-1800

HIST 2059: Colonies, Empire and Revolution: North America 1500-1800

Main Fields of Interest

US cultural and intellectual history; history of the book, libraries, and reading in US and Australia; history of masculinity; historiography.

Research in progress

Current major research projects:
‘Reading the Wars: Australian Soldiers’ Reading in the First and Second World Wars’;
‘Remaking the World Through Reading: US Involvement in International Library and Book Culture, 1946-1968’

Other research projects

‘War Veterans in the Twentieth Century USA: Popular attitudes and representations’; ‘Political Biography and the Making of American Political Masculinities’; ‘Celebrities and US Politics’.

Publications