Dr Evan Smith
Academic Level B
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
I am Lecturer in History in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. Prior to this, I have had held numerous positions in academia and the Australian public service, including the Australian Institute of Criminology and the South Australian Office for Crime Statistics and Research.
I have published widely on political extremism, social movements, national security, policing and borders in Britain, Ireland, Australia and southern Africa. My latest monograph is No Platform: A Histroy of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech (Routledge 2020).
Bachelor of Arts (History) First Class Honours, Flinders University (2003)
2019 - Conference Support Grant, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University ($3000)
2018 - Research Support Grant, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University ($7330)
2013 - Faculty Research Grant, Flinders University ($6000) (with Dr Andrekos Varnava, School of International Studies)
2011 - David Phillips Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities
2009 - Australian Prime Ministers Centre Fellowship, Museum of Australian Democracy/Old Parliament House
I have taught broadly across the disciplines of history, criminology and law. I have presented lectures and taught tutorials for the following topics:
- Terrorism and Society in Modern Europe (convened topic in 2018)
- Turning Points in World History
- History's Killing Fields
- Brief History of Australia
- Convicts, Race and Gender: Australia 1788-1840
- Modern Europe, 1900-1945
- Europe, 1945 to the Present
- Change and Conflict in Russia, 1860-1930
- Crime and Criminology
- International Criminal Justice
- History and Philosophy of Law
I have been on the editorial board of Twentieth Century Communism journal since 2020.
I am currently a member of the Australian Historical Association, the Labour History Society (Australia) and the Socialist History Society (UK).
I have written widely for the media and have had pieces published in The Guardian, The Conversation, Jacobin, Tribune, Times Higher Education, Red Pepper, New Humanist, History and Policy, Overland and Eureka Street.
- History - Australian
- History - British
- Immigration
- Marxism
- Politics
- Race relations
- Riots
- Terrorism
- United Kingdom
- British history
- freedom of speech
- Immigration politics and history
- Left-wing politics and history
- Public order policing and riots
- Social movements and activism
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