History and Theology experts

Professor Bob Reece

Australian and Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) history

Eminent historian Professor Bob Reece is the author of a book and numerous published articles about the life of Daisy May Bates, the eccentric Irish anthropologist and Aboriginal welfare worker who died in 1951.

A specialist in Aboriginal history, Australian colonial history, the Irish in Australia, and the history of Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo), he is the founding editor of the journals Aboriginal History and The Australian Journal of Irish Studies.

Professor Reece is currently working on a biography of Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak.

Associate Professor Rowan Strong

Eighteenth century British history and Christian history in Australia and New Zealand

Associate Professor Rowan Strong is an expert in eighteenth century British religious history, Christian history in Australia and New Zealand, and the Church of England since the sixteenth century.

Associate Professor Strong has been published internationally in the field of church history.

He is currently examining Anglicanism in the British Empire.

Associate Professor Michael Sturma

Social history of crime, naval history in the Pacific, Australian popular culture and film

Associate Professor Michael Sturma is an expert on naval history in the Pacific region during World War II, publishing little-known accounts of historic naval events in Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder and The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine. He is also the editor for The Great Circle, a peer-reviewed journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History.

Associate Professor Sturma pioneered research into the social history of crime and policing in Australia, culminating in publishing the book Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth Century New South Wales in 1983.

Other publishing credits include Australian Rock’n’Roll: The First Wave and South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific.