Dr John Connor
Senior Lecturer
History Program
Phone: +61 2 62689543
Fax: +61 2 6268 8879
Email: j.connor@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
Senior lecturer in history, UNSW@ADFA, 2007-
Senior historian, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 2004-7
Lecturer in history, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King?s College, London, 2003-4
Courses Taught
- British Empire at War 1756-1967
- Australian Military History from 1788 to the present
- Introduction to Strategy
Research Interests / Projects
- British Empire and the First World War
- Frontier and colonial warfare
- British Empire and Commonwealth military history
- Australian military history
- Australian history
- Peacekeeping – volume author for Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
Publications
Books:
- John Connor & David Horner, The Good International Citizen: Australian Peacekeeping in Asia, Africa and Europe, 1991-1993. Vol. III of The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012)
- Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the foundations of Australian defence (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
- The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838 (UNSW Press, Sydney, rev. ed. 2005, 1st pub. 2002) Carl Bridge, John Connor & David O’Reilly (eds.), Bradman: Insights at Lord’s (Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2004)
- Carl Bridge, John Connor & David O?Reilly (eds.), Bradman: Insights at Lord?s (Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2004)
Articles and Chapters:
- ?The Munitions Supply Company of Western Australia and the popular movement to manufacture artillery ammunition in the British Empire in the First World War?, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, forthcoming 2011
- ?The frontier war that never was? in Craig Stockings (ed), Zombie Myths of Australian Military History (UNSW Press, Sydney 2010) pp. 10-28
- ?James Whiteside McCay? in James McGuire & James Quinn (eds), Dictionary of Irish Biography (7 vols, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- ?The Empire's War Recalled: Recent Writing on the Western Front Experience of Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the West Indies?, History Compass Vol. 7, May 2009, pp. 1123-1145
- ?Intervention and Domestic Politics? in David Horner et al (eds), Australian Peacekeeping: Sixty Years in the Field (Cambridge University Press, 2009) pp. 60-83
- Aboriginal Traditional Warfare? and ?Frontier Wars? in Peter Dennis et al (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2008) pp. 1-3, 216-22
- ?Recording the Human Face of War: Robinson and Frontier conflict? in Anna Johnson & Mitchell Rolls (eds), Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission (Hobart, Quintus Publishing, 2008) pp. 171-80
- ?Australian Frontier Wars?, ?Australian-German Relations?, ?Australian-Japanese Relations?, ?Immigration Restriction? and ?Imperial Conferences? in Carl Hodge (ed.), The Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 (2 vols, Greenwood Publishing, Westport, Connecticut, 2008) Vol. 1, pp. 55-58, 58-59, 336-38, 338-39
- Sea power and peace operations: the naval contribution to UNITAF, Somalia, 1992-93? in David Stevens & John Reeve (eds), Sea power ashore and in the air (Halstead Press, Sydney, 2007) pp. 236-47
- ?The Tasmanian frontier and military history?,Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2004, pp. 89-99
- ?Charles Frederick Cox? in Anne Millar (ed.), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate (Melbourne University Press, 2004) Vol. 2, pp. 390-93
- ?Robert Emmett Winning? in John Ritchie & Diane Langmore (eds.), Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press, 2002) Vol. 16, pp. 569-70
- ?British frontier warfare logistics and the ?Black Line?, Van Diemen?s Land (Tasmania) 1830?, War in History, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2002, pp. 143-58
- ?Australian Frontier Wars? and ?New Zealand Maori Wars? in Charles Messenger (ed.), Readers? Guide to Military History (Fitzroy Dearborn, London, 2001) pp. 40-41, 446-47
- ?Some examples of Irish enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force, 1914?, The Irish Sword, Vol. XXI, No. 83, 1998, pp. 85-92
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- British Empire and the First World War
- British Empire frontier and colonial warfare
- Australian military history
- Australian history