Dr Meighen Katz

Teaching – page content

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Meighen is part of the teaching team for:

ATS1369 Understanding University Learning
ATS1370 Knowledge and Context in the Diploma of Tertiary Studies program.

Publications – page content

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Recent Publications

Katz, M., 2012, “Reconsidering images: using the farm security administration photographs in history exhibitions”, in The thing about museums: objects and experience, representation and contestation, eds Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julie Petrov and Jennifer Walklate, Routledge, USA, pp. 324-337

Research – page content

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Research interests

Meighen’s research interests are interdisciplinary and include:

Public History
Museums
American History
The Great Depression
1920s-1930s
Cultural History
Media History
Urban History
Public Narratives of Housing, Crime, Poverty, Illness & Epidemic, Economic Change, Disaster
Issues of first-year education and transition to university

Current research project

A monograph based on her PhD thesis: Beyond Migrant Mother: Exhibiting the American Experience of the Great Depression and the 1930s. A project exploring the museum and public history narratives of societal & personal vulnerability.

Home – page content

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A transplant from North America, Meighen worked in the Canadian film & television industry before moving to Australia to pursue work in museums and her PhD. She joined SAMSS in 2011.

Biography

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A transplant from North America, Meighen worked in the Canadian film & television industry before moving to Australia to pursue work in museums and her PhD. She joined SAMSS in 2011.

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