Hamish
Maxwell-Stewart
Associate Lecturer, School of History and
Classics
Research Interests:
History of unfree labour migration, work, social
control and colonization particularly convict transportation to Australia.
I am currently working on ARC projects including "Penal Labour
and Patriot Exile 1839-46" with Cassandra Pybus, Tom Dunning
and Ian Duffield; and "A Control Sample of Male Convicts 1817-39"
with Cassandra Pybus and Tom Dunning.
Recent Publications include
- A
Pack of Thieves?: Fifty Two Convict Lives with S. Hood Port
Arthur: Port Arthur Historic Site, 2000.
- Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives
with Lucy Frost Melbourne: Melbourne University Press,
and American Citizens British with Cassandra Pybus. Melbourne:
Melbourne University Press.
- Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and I. Duffield.
"Skin Deep Devotions: Religious Tattoos and Convict Transportation
to Australia." Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European
and American History. Ed. J. Caplan. London: Reaktion Press,
2000. 118-135.
- "Convict Workers, Penal Labour
and Sarah Island: Life at Macquarie Harbour, 1822-1834." Representing
Convicts. Ed. J. Bradley and I. Duffield. London: Continuum,
2000. 142-162.
- J. Bradley and H. Maxwell-Stewart. "Embodied
Explorations: Investigating Convict Descriptions." Representing
Convicts. Ed. J. Bradley and I. Duffield. London: Continuum,
2000. 183-203.
- H. Maxwell-Stewart and B. Hindmarsh, "This
is the bird that never flew: William Stewart, Major Donald
MacLeod and the Launceston Advertiser." Journal of Australian
Colonial History 2.1 (2000): 1-28.
- "The Rise and Fall of John Longworth:
Work and Punishment at Early Port Arthur." Tasmanian Historical
Studies 7 (1999): 96-114.
- H. Maxwell-Stewart and J. Bradley. "Convict
Tattoos: Tales of Freedom and Coercion." Convict Love Tokens.
Ed. M. Field and T. Millet. Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 1998. 47-52.
- "The Search for the Convict Voice."
Tasmanian Historical Studies 6 (1998): 75-89.
- H. Maxwell-Stewart and J. Bradley, "Behold
the Man: Power, Observation and the Tattooed Convict."
Australian Studies 12.1 (1997): 71-97.
- H. Maxwell-Stewart and I. Duffield. "Beyond
Hells Gates: Religion at Macquarie Harbour Penal Station."
Tasmanian Historical Studies 5.2 (1997): 83-99.
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