Rate My Professor Claire Mclisky

Dr. Claire Louise McLisky is an Adjunct Lecturer and casual tutor in the School of Arts and Social Sciences within the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University, positions she has held since 2018. She earned her PhD in Australian history from the University of Melbourne in 2009, completing her thesis in three and a half years with no corrections and a recommendation to publish. Prior to this, she received first-class Honours with the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 2003 and a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science in 2001. Her academic career encompasses significant international experience, including a Sapere Aude Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen from 2012 to 2015. During 2010-2011, she served as Convenor of the Centre for Australian Studies and Lecturer in History at the same institution. Since 2015, she has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Griffith University and the University of Copenhagen. Additionally, she works as a casual research assistant on the ARC-funded Lawful Relations project led by Deakin and RMIT Universities since 2018. Earlier roles include research assistant positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney's Koori Centre.

McLisky's research specializations encompass the history of emotions, colonial history, Aboriginal history, missionary history, history of humanitarianism, Greenlandic history, postcolonial theory, and Australian history. She has edited key volumes such as Creating White Australia (Sydney University Press, 2009, co-edited with Jane Carey), Emotions and Christian Missions: Historical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, co-edited with Daniel Midena and Karen Vallgårda), and special issues of Journal of Social History (2017) and Social Sciences and Missions (2017). Selected publications include “The Location of Faith: Power, agency and spirituality on Maloga Mission, 1874-1888” (History Australia, 2010), “From missionary wife to mission superintendent: Janet Matthews on two Independent Protestant Murray River missions” (Journal of Australian Studies, 2015), and “And They’ll Know We Are Christians By Our Love: Exploring the role of Christian love on Maloga Mission, 1874-1888” (Journal of Religious History, 2015). Her accolades include the Independent Council for Danish Research Postdoctoral Fellowship and Sapere Aude Young Elite Researcher Award (both 2011), highly commended for the Australian Historical Association’s Geoffrey Serle Award (2010), and the University of Sydney Medal (2003). She has designed and taught courses such as “Indigenous Australia: The Politics and the Poetics of Representation” at the University of Copenhagen.