Associate Professor Noah Riseman has a longstanding interest in uncovering the histories of marginalised groups, particularly in histories of gender, sexuality and race. Associate Professor Riseman has for many years researched the history of Indigenous participation in the Australian armed forces. He has held both an ARC Discovery and ARC Linkage grant on this topic, travelling Australia to record the histories of Indigenous ex-servicemen and women. 

Associate Professor Riseman has also been researching LGBTI histories in Australia, coordinating a large ARC Discovery project on the history of LGBTI military service since the Second World War. He is focusing particularly on the changing policies, practices and lived experiences of LGBTI defence members. His book Serving in Silence? Australian LGBTI Servicemen and Women will be published this year. Associate Professor Riseman is also commencing a new ARC Discovery grant: the first project to document the history of transgender people in Australia from the early 20th century until the present.

Dr Ellen Warne is a senior lecturer in history. She has worked as a research fellow investigating the long histories of “working mothers” in Australia and has been published with colleagues. Her major research interest has focused on women in women-only organisations from the suffrage campaigns onwards, including the long-standing debates around family values and contrasting dynamics that required women’s political and economic engagement in Australia. 

Dr Warne is a member of the research team concentrating on historicising social policy and change in Australia. She regularly presents papers at conferences, including at the Australian Historical Association conference over the past three years, and was an invited speaker at the international conference on the Colonial Girl