Tamson Pietsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 181848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamson Pietsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamson |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietsch |
| SIGNATURE | PIETSCH T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8304-7108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
New university history, institutional reckoning and the materiality of ideas
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate
Merze Tate (1905–1996) was a prolific academic who taught in the fields of diplomatic history and International Relations (IR) at Howard University in Washington D.C. After training as a teacher, Tate acquired graduate degrees from Oxford (1935) and Harvard (1941) and became one of the few African American female professors of her generation. She published widely, not only on disarmament, but also on IR as a field and discipline, and the history …
Finding the confidence of our convictions
Making a Grade
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia
Digital platforms produce bias and inequality that have a significant impact on peoples' sense of self, agency and life chances. Wikipedia has largely evaded the criticism of other algorithmic systems like Google search and training databases like ImageNet, but Wikipedia is a critical source of representation in our current era - not only because it is one of the world's most popular websites, but because its data are being used as training data …
The Careers of Humanities Students in Interwar Australia
This article uses prosopographical methods to map the broad patterns of the geographical, vocational, and social circulation of a cohort of arts students in interwar Australia. In doing so, it sheds light on the lives of a significant but largely neglected category of people who carried humanities knowledge and helped reproduce it. The article reveals both the breadth of professional work undertaken by this cohort and their international and regi…
Here we stand
The challenge of our era is to find ways to respond to the ecological, social and political breakdown our world is facing as an entwined and inseverable phenomenon. These interwoven crises are taking place in a context where fatalistic and managerialist conceptions of change enjoy almost hegemonic power in key institutions. If society is to be remade in ways that preserve a commitment to democracy, it is crucial that citizens be imaginatively equ…
Commercial Travel and College Culture
Writing for the New York Times Magazine in 1928, journalist Eunice Fuller Barnard described the dramatic expansion of transatlantic student travel from the United States to Europe in the years since the First World War. Whereas “gilded youth used to go by twos and threes with parents or tutor,” she wrote, now American youth “gilded and ungilded, moves Europe-ward in mass formation, sometimes hundreds in a party, with all the enthusiasm of a colle…
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
Life After Dawkins
These four little blue books are a must read for anyone interested in understanding the contours of contemporary higher education in Australia. They offer deep dives into the ways the reforms intro
Bodies at sea
This article considers the bodily experience of being at sea in the age of sail. Using shipboard diaries written by eight passengers during the high period of free migration to the Australasian colonies, it argues that oceanic journeys disrupted and upended the land-based bodily practices being fashioned in nineteenth-century Britain. At sea, these mechanisms of bodily comportment were rendered fragile and unstable, leaving middle- and working-cl…
Afterword
This article considers the different ways British history has been located and defined in the last forty years, highlighting in particular the shifting and porous nature of its borders. The article reflects on the disinclination of many contributors in this issue to adopt the label of 'British historian'. It points out that, despite the emergence of transnational history, those historians working in Australia on British sources continue to find t…
William C. Lubenow. “Only Connect”
The stated aim of William C. Lubenow’s book “Only Connect”: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain is “to locate knowledge formation in the social processes in which members of learned societies participated,” and in the process to recover something of the significance of those who belonged to them (ix). Its six chapters seek to map out different aspects of these social processes. After using the introduction to offer a “somewhat specula…
Transnational Politics of Higher Education
The shouting in the dark
Rethinking the British World
This article rethinks the concept of the “British World” by paying close attention to the voices of those who attended the 1903 Allied Colonial Universities Conference. They identified not one, but three different kinds of British world space. Mapped, respectively, by ideas and emotions, by networks and exchange, and by the specific sites of empire, this article suggests that, in the light of criticisms the British World concept has faced, and in…
A British sea
It is the contention of this article that historians of the nineteenth century need to think about notions of empire, nation, and race in the context of the social production of space. More specifically, it posits that the moving space of the steamship functioned as a particularly important site in which travellers reworked ideas about themselves and their worlds. Supporting this contention the article pays close attention to the journeys of J. T…
Wandering scholars? Academic mobility and the British World, 1850–1940
Wandering scholars? Academic mobility and the British World, 1850–1940
Rethinking the British World
This article rethinks the concept of the “British World” by paying close attention to the voices of those who attended the 1903 Allied Colonial Universities Conference. They identified not one, but three different kinds of British world space. Mapped, respectively, by ideas and emotions, by networks and exchange, and by the specific sites of empire, this article suggests that, in the light of criticisms the British World concept has faced, and in…
Bodies at sea
This article considers the bodily experience of being at sea in the age of sail. Using shipboard diaries written by eight passengers during the high period of free migration to the Australasian colonies, it argues that oceanic journeys disrupted and upended the land-based bodily practices being fashioned in nineteenth-century Britain. At sea, these mechanisms of bodily comportment were rendered fragile and unstable, leaving middle- and working-cl…
A British sea
It is the contention of this article that historians of the nineteenth century need to think about notions of empire, nation, and race in the context of the social production of space. More specifically, it posits that the moving space of the steamship functioned as a particularly important site in which travellers reworked ideas about themselves and their worlds. Supporting this contention the article pays close attention to the journeys of J. T…
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
The shouting in the dark
A British sea
It is the contention of this article that historians of the nineteenth century need to think about notions of empire, nation, and race in the context of the social production of space. More specifically, it posits that the moving space of the steamship functioned as a particularly important site in which travellers reworked ideas about themselves and their worlds. Supporting this contention the article pays close attention to the journeys of J. T…
Wandering scholars? Academic mobility and the British World, 1850–1940
Rethinking the British World
This article rethinks the concept of the “British World” by paying close attention to the voices of those who attended the 1903 Allied Colonial Universities Conference. They identified not one, but three different kinds of British world space. Mapped, respectively, by ideas and emotions, by networks and exchange, and by the specific sites of empire, this article suggests that, in the light of criticisms the British World concept has faced, and in…
Bodies at sea
This article considers the bodily experience of being at sea in the age of sail. Using shipboard diaries written by eight passengers during the high period of free migration to the Australasian colonies, it argues that oceanic journeys disrupted and upended the land-based bodily practices being fashioned in nineteenth-century Britain. At sea, these mechanisms of bodily comportment were rendered fragile and unstable, leaving middle- and working-cl…
Afterword
This article considers the different ways British history has been located and defined in the last forty years, highlighting in particular the shifting and porous nature of its borders. The article reflects on the disinclination of many contributors in this issue to adopt the label of 'British historian'. It points out that, despite the emergence of transnational history, those historians working in Australia on British sources continue to find t…
William C. Lubenow. “Only Connect”
The stated aim of William C. Lubenow’s book “Only Connect”: Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain is “to locate knowledge formation in the social processes in which members of learned societies participated,” and in the process to recover something of the significance of those who belonged to them (ix). Its six chapters seek to map out different aspects of these social processes. After using the introduction to offer a “somewhat specula…
Transnational Politics of Higher Education
The shouting in the dark
Commercial Travel and College Culture
Writing for the New York Times Magazine in 1928, journalist Eunice Fuller Barnard described the dramatic expansion of transatlantic student travel from the United States to Europe in the years since the First World War. Whereas “gilded youth used to go by twos and threes with parents or tutor,” she wrote, now American youth “gilded and ungilded, moves Europe-ward in mass formation, sometimes hundreds in a party, with all the enthusiasm of a colle…
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
This article examines the “new professions” as alternative settings where women thought and wrote about the international. Presenting the case studies of Fannie Fern Andrews, Mary Parker Follett and Florence Wilson, it shows that, in emerging professional and disciplinary contexts that have hitherto lain beyond the purview of historians of international thought, these women developed their thinking about the international. The insights they deriv…
Life After Dawkins
These four little blue books are a must read for anyone interested in understanding the contours of contemporary higher education in Australia. They offer deep dives into the ways the reforms intro
Here we stand
The challenge of our era is to find ways to respond to the ecological, social and political breakdown our world is facing as an entwined and inseverable phenomenon. These interwoven crises are taking place in a context where fatalistic and managerialist conceptions of change enjoy almost hegemonic power in key institutions. If society is to be remade in ways that preserve a commitment to democracy, it is crucial that citizens be imaginatively equ…
The Careers of Humanities Students in Interwar Australia
This article uses prosopographical methods to map the broad patterns of the geographical, vocational, and social circulation of a cohort of arts students in interwar Australia. In doing so, it sheds light on the lives of a significant but largely neglected category of people who carried humanities knowledge and helped reproduce it. The article reveals both the breadth of professional work undertaken by this cohort and their international and regi…
Gender and the invisibility of care on Wikipedia
Digital platforms produce bias and inequality that have a significant impact on peoples' sense of self, agency and life chances. Wikipedia has largely evaded the criticism of other algorithmic systems like Google search and training databases like ImageNet, but Wikipedia is a critical source of representation in our current era - not only because it is one of the world's most popular websites, but because its data are being used as training data …
Finding the confidence of our convictions
Making a Grade
New university history, institutional reckoning and the materiality of ideas
Forum on Barbara D. Savage’s Merze Tate
Merze Tate (1905–1996) was a prolific academic who taught in the fields of diplomatic history and International Relations (IR) at Howard University in Washington D.C. After training as a teacher, Tate acquired graduate degrees from Oxford (1935) and Harvard (1941) and became one of the few African American female professors of her generation. She published widely, not only on disarmament, but also on IR as a field and discipline, and the history …
Political science (13 works) · History (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Australian History and Society (9 works) · History (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)