Observers & Advisors

Professor John Gascoigne (History, University of New South Wales)
BA (Sydney), MA (Princeton), PhD( Cambridge). Professor Gascoigne teaches widely in Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European society, the Enlightenment and exploration of the Pacific. His research interests are in: European-Pacific contact (1763-1842), Sir Joseph Banks, James Cook and Australian colonial culture.

Dr. Ros Prosser (Media, University of Adelaide)
Phd (Gender Studies) (2006) University of Adelaide MA (Writing) (1996) University of Technology Sydney BA (1990) (Communications) University of South Australia. Ros joined the Discipline of Media in 2007. Her research interests are: visual culture, writing, fictocriticism, water, subjectivity and digital media.
Contact: rosslyn.prosser@adelaide.edu.au

Dr. Anthony Page (History, University of Tasmania)
Anthony Page joined the School in 2002 as Lecturer in European History at the Launceston campus. During the mid 1990s he researched a doctorate in British history under the supervision of Professor Wilfrid Prest at the University of Adelaide. 1999-2001 was spent as an English & SOSE teacher at Broadford Secondary College in Victoria. In 2000 he was invited to present a paper to the annual 'International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World', hosted by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard University. In December 2005 he hosted the Australasian Modern British History Association (AMBHA) biennial conference in Launceston. Anthony is Reviews Editor for the journal Enlightenment and Dissent.
Contact: Anthony.Page@utas.edu.au 

Dr. Sharon Crozier - De Rosa (Flinders University)
Sharon Crozier - De Rosa is an Early Career Researcher and Honorary Fellow in the Department of History, Flinders University. Her main research interests are: Victorian and Edwardian women; popular culture; and, a history of emotions. She is also interested in children in Sate care, having co-authored a volume of history on that topic for a recent South Australian Parliamentary Inquiry. She has taught in various history topics including those centring on culture in Victorian England, approaches to world history and Australian social history. She also has extensive experience in university administration, managing and completing Course Review processes and reports, and undertaking course marketing and student course counselling on behalf of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Judi Baron (CLPD, University of Adelaide)
Judi Baron. M.Ed. (Dist.Ed.), B.Ed. (Bus.), Dip.T. (Comm.), Dip.ProjMgt Judi is a lecturer and Convenor of the Graduate Certificate in Online Learning (Higher Education). She also coordinates the Online Learning Unit within the Centre for Learning and Professional Development (CLPD). Online Learning specialises in the areas of pedagogy, instructional design and multimedia and provides effective learning and teaching support to the University community as well as external groups. Judi's current research interests include situational learning which incorporates online roleplay simulations and scenario-based learning as well as teaching online across cultures.

Dr. Katherine Ellison (English, Illinois State University)
Dr. Katherine Ellison holds a PhD in 18th-Century Literature and Culture from Emory University. Katherine teaches Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British and Transatlantic Literature at ISU with a focus on print culture, media theory, archival research methods, the theory of the novel, and women writers. Previously, she constructed a virtual 1920s Harlem in Second Life using skills in graphic design acquired at Emory where she also worked on other digital projects including the 'Electric Poetry Portal' and 'The Civil War in the Illustrated London News'. She is writing a book on the narrative and poetic conventions of cryptography manuals from 1641 through the eighteenth century, which have influenced today's digital coding practices in platforms like Second Life.