Claire Brennan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3889324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claire Brennan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claire |
| FAMILY NAME | Brennan |
| SIGNATURE | BRENNAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7593-7522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Digital Flying Dutchman: The Afterlife of an Open Educational Resource as a Public History of Exploration
Living on a crocodile planet: Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends , Queensland Museum Kurilpa, 24 October 2025 to 5 October 2026
Monumentally Kitsch
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and global reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 reorientated activists, the media, and scholars worldwide toward the meanings associated with colonial statutory. In Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia, this reorientation coincided with the 250th anniversary of navigator Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage. The number of Cook monuments in these settler-colonial nations evinces that Cook is…
Land and Sea: The Significance of Named Places in Digitally Mapping Historic Ocean Voyages
Introduction The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a burst of interest by European powers in the scientific exploration of the Pacific. Well-equipped expeditions were sent to the far side of the world, although the technology of the time limited navigators’ ability to record their routes accurately. The journals and other publications produced by European expeditions to the Pacific are storehouses of observations of places and pe…
Experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A qualitative study to inform HIV programming
BACKGROUND: Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women-collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)-are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies and programming and to help protect KPs' human rights. M…
Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations
[Extract] This book makes an interesting and sustained argument both about the significance of non-human species in Australian environmental history and about the way in which variationsin animal populations affect human responses to them. In the introduction, the editorsmake a strong argument for the role of studies of Australian history in contributing to under-standings of animals at a population level. They state that Australia's colonisation…
Digital humanities, digital methods, digital history, and digital outputs: History writing and the digital revolution
While the term “digital humanities” appears inclusive, its exact meaning remains unclear and its early association with studies in English Literature means the term has already been partially superceded by “digital methods.” However, that renaming is problematic as it emphasises the research tools used while the field itself is adjusting to include new methods, new topics, and new types of production, not just new ways of working with existing ma…
An Africa on your own front door step”: The development of an Australian safari
The safari arrived in Australia in the 1950s. Promising luxury and excitement the Australian safari deliberately drew on African precedents to create an instantly recognisable hunting experience. Hunters came from southern Australia and overseas to hunt crocodiles in northern Queensland, and, later, the Northern Territory. But despite its glamour and contemporary public profile the presence of the safari in tropical Australia has been overlooked …
Exhibition Reviews
The Australian gorilla revisited A reply to Claire Brennan
Claire Brennan’s review of Graham Joyner’s book Monster, Myth or Lost Marsupial? The Search for the Australian Gorilla in the Jungles of History, Science and Language (Canberra: Hayes UK & Thomas, 2009), appeared in History Australia. The author examines the historical, anthropological and linguistic evidence for the former existence of an unknown marsupial known as the Australian gorilla (or yahoo) while identifying systematic flaws in scientifi…
May 4 th Voices
May 4 th Voices is an historical play based on oral histories of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University. The Kent State Shootings, also known as the Kent State Massacre, occurred in Ken...
Digital humanities, digital methods, digital history, and digital outputs: History writing and the digital revolution
While the term “digital humanities” appears inclusive, its exact meaning remains unclear and its early association with studies in English Literature means the term has already been partially superceded by “digital methods.” However, that renaming is problematic as it emphasises the research tools used while the field itself is adjusting to include new methods, new topics, and new types of production, not just new ways of working with existing ma…
The Australian gorilla revisited A reply to Claire Brennan
Claire Brennan’s review of Graham Joyner’s book Monster, Myth or Lost Marsupial? The Search for the Australian Gorilla in the Jungles of History, Science and Language (Canberra: Hayes UK & Thomas, 2009), appeared in History Australia. The author examines the historical, anthropological and linguistic evidence for the former existence of an unknown marsupial known as the Australian gorilla (or yahoo) while identifying systematic flaws in scientifi…
May 4 th Voices
May 4 th Voices is an historical play based on oral histories of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University. The Kent State Shootings, also known as the Kent State Massacre, occurred in Ken...
Exhibition Reviews
An Africa on your own front door step”: The development of an Australian safari
The safari arrived in Australia in the 1950s. Promising luxury and excitement the Australian safari deliberately drew on African precedents to create an instantly recognisable hunting experience. Hunters came from southern Australia and overseas to hunt crocodiles in northern Queensland, and, later, the Northern Territory. But despite its glamour and contemporary public profile the presence of the safari in tropical Australia has been overlooked …
Digital humanities, digital methods, digital history, and digital outputs: History writing and the digital revolution
While the term “digital humanities” appears inclusive, its exact meaning remains unclear and its early association with studies in English Literature means the term has already been partially superceded by “digital methods.” However, that renaming is problematic as it emphasises the research tools used while the field itself is adjusting to include new methods, new topics, and new types of production, not just new ways of working with existing ma…
Experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender women in Latin America and the Caribbean: A qualitative study to inform HIV programming
BACKGROUND: Female sex workers, MSM, and transgender women-collectively referred to as key populations (KPs)-are disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV, yet little is known about the violence they face, its gender-based origins, and responses to GBV. The purpose of this study was to understand the nature and consequences of GBV experienced, to inform HIV policies and programming and to help protect KPs' human rights. M…
Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations
[Extract] This book makes an interesting and sustained argument both about the significance of non-human species in Australian environmental history and about the way in which variationsin animal populations affect human responses to them. In the introduction, the editorsmake a strong argument for the role of studies of Australian history in contributing to under-standings of animals at a population level. They state that Australia's colonisation…
Land and Sea: The Significance of Named Places in Digitally Mapping Historic Ocean Voyages
Introduction The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw a burst of interest by European powers in the scientific exploration of the Pacific. Well-equipped expeditions were sent to the far side of the world, although the technology of the time limited navigators’ ability to record their routes accurately. The journals and other publications produced by European expeditions to the Pacific are storehouses of observations of places and pe…
Monumentally Kitsch
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and global reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 reorientated activists, the media, and scholars worldwide toward the meanings associated with colonial statutory. In Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia, this reorientation coincided with the 250th anniversary of navigator Captain James Cook's first Pacific voyage. The number of Cook monuments in these settler-colonial nations evinces that Cook is…
A Digital Flying Dutchman: The Afterlife of an Open Educational Resource as a Public History of Exploration
Living on a crocodile planet: Croc! Lost Giants to Living Legends , Queensland Museum Kurilpa, 24 October 2025 to 5 October 2026
Sociology (5 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Humanities and Scholarship (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works)