Dr Janine Hiddlestone

Adjunct Lecturer (History & Politics)

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Room:

A4.113, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Cairns Campus

Telephone:

+61 (07) 4042 1102

Fax:

+61 (07) 4042 1380

Email:

Janine.hiddlestone@jcu.edu.au

Address:

School of Arts and Social Sciences
James Cook University
PO Box 6811
CAIRNSQLD4870
AUSTRALIA

Janine Hiddlestone is a lecturer and tutor in politics and history in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at James Cook University in Cairns. She has a Ph.D. in political history and has published on the place of war in culture and history, and the influence of popular culture on political and historical events.Her research examines how war is remembered and the effect those remembrances have on public memory and political decisions. Janine is also interested in the influence of technology on pop culture, and vice versa, and its pedagogical uses in encouraging students to develop an interest in political and historical issues. She has also attained infamy among her colleagues as a pop culture tragic.

Qualifications, Memberships and Consultancies

  • PhD Politics/History (JCU)

  • GradCertEd [Tertiary Teaching] (JCU)

  • BA (Hons)

Currently Teaching

  • History of Terrorism

  • Environmental & Pacific History

  • The European Union

  • Australia & World Politics

  • Comparative Politics

  • International Relations

  • Nationalism

Research Interests

  • War & Conflict Studies (particularly Vietnam & late 20th C conflict)

  • Popular Culture (Effects on history and politics)

  • International Relations

  • Employment and Industrial Relations

  • Pacific and Environmental History

Selected Publications

An Uneasy Legacy: Australian Society and the Vietnam War. VDM: Saarbrucken, 2008.

“Minorities ‘R Us” in Wilson, Leah (ed). Filled with Glee. BenBella Books, Texas, 2010

“Drawing the Line: Confessions of an Intern” in Wilson, Leah (ed). Grey’s Anatomy 101, BenBella Books, Texas, 2007

“Mothers, Daughters and Gilmore Girls” in Cruise, Jennifer (ed). Coffee at Lukes: A Gilmore Girls Anthology. BenBella Books, Texas, 2007

“All that Glitters: Identity through color and place in CSI – Crime Scene Investigation” in Cortez, Dan. CSI Investigated: An Anthology, BenBella Books, Texas, 2006

“Is Halo Doom-ed? Are videogames the new books?” in Yeffeth, Glenn. The Halo Effect, BenBella Books, Texas, 2007

“Any jobs for an old digger?: Employment issues of Vietnam veterans”
Research Group for War Society and Culture International Conference:30th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Newcastle, 2005

“My Grandpa was a great old soldier: Australian servicemen and the Vietnam War”Linq (31) 1, 2004

“Voices from the Battlefield: “Personal Narratives as an Historical Tool in Studying the Place of the Vietnam War in Australian Society” Journal of Australian Studies (73) 2002

ResearchOnline@JCU

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