Rate My Professor Matthew Allen

Allen's scholarly contributions include the forthcoming monograph Drink and Democracy: Alcohol and the Political Imaginary in Colonial Australia (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025), alongside peer-reviewed articles such as 'Convict Police and the Enforcement of British Order: Policing the Rum Economy in Early New South Wales' (Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 2020), 'Distilling Liberty: Reconsidering the Politics of Alcohol in Early New South Wales' (Australian Historical Studies, 2019), 'The Myth of the Flogging Parson: Samuel Marsden and Severity of Punishment in the Age of Reform' (Australian Historical Studies, 2017), 'The Failure of Political Temperance: The Politics of No-License in Broken Hill, 1883-1914' with Lyn Wailes (Journal of Australian Colonial History, 2019), and 'Policing a Free Society: Drunkenness and Liberty in Colonial New South Wales' (History Australia, 2015). He holds key administrative roles as History Honours Coordinator, School of HASS Honours Coordinator, Book Review Editor for the Journal of Australian Colonial History, and UNE Representative on the History Council of New South Wales. Allen teaches courses including CRIM104 Deviance, HIST310 Being Bad: Sinners, Crooks, Deviants and Psychos, HIST313 Crime, Protest and Reform in the British World, 1780-1840, and HIST554 Imagining Australia: Nation, Empire, Sovereignty. He supervises postgraduate research in the history of crime, deviance, colonial New South Wales, popular culture, Australian politics, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain.