The University of Western Australia

Asst/Prof Ethan Blue

Assistant Professor
History

Contact details

Address

History
The University of Western Australia (M208)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 1227

Fax

6488 1069

Email

ethan.blue@uwa.edu.au

Location

Room 2.08, Arts Building, Crawley campus

Qualifications

BA Virginia, MA PhD UT Austin

Key research

United States History; History of Punishment; Immigration History; Ethnic Studies; Cultural History; Labor/Working Class History; Critical Theory; Masculinities; US-Mexico Borderlands.

Publications

Publications – Books & Edited Volumes
•Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons (New York: New York University Press, in press).
•Editor, with Patrick Timmons, Punishment and Death: Special Issue of Radical History Review, Number 96, September 2006.

Publications – Articles & Book Chapters
•“Engineering and War,” co-authored with Dean Nieusma, International Journal of Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace, accepted July 2011.
•“The Culture of the Condemned: Pastoral Execution and Life on Death Row in the 1930s,” Law, Culture and the Humanities. Online First publication 30 June 2011, doi:10.1177/1743872111406627
•“A Parody on the Law: Organized Labor, the Convict Lease, and Immigration in the Making of the Texas State Capitol,” Journal of Social History, Vol. 43, No. 4 (2010), 1021—1044.
•“The Strange Career of Leo Stanley: Remaking Manhood and Medicine at San Quentin State Penitentiary, 1913—1951,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 2 (2009), 210—241.
•“Teaching American Studies in Australia,” A Roundtable Commentary in Australasian Journal of American Studies (December 2008), 127—132.
•“’A Dark Cloud Will Go Over’: Pain, Death, and Silence in Texas Prisons in the 1930s,” Humanities Research, Vol. 14, No. 2 (2007), 5—24.
•“Gordian knots and recent work on the American prison complex,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (December 2006), 91—101.
•“Punishment and Death: Editor’s Introduction,” with Patrick Timmons, in Punishment and Death: Special Issue of Radical History Review, Number 96 (2006), 1-8.
•“National Trauma, Church Drama: The Cultural Politics of Christian Fear,” Bad Subjects, February 2005.
•“Beating the System: Prison Music and the Politics of Penal Space,” in Isolation: Places and Practices of Exclusion, eds. Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford, (London: Routledge, 2003), 56—70.

Publications in Progress
•“Deportation,” in The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encyclopedia, ed., Wilbur R. Miller (SAGE, forthcoming).
•“Abjection, Correction, and Penal Medical Photography in the Early 20th-Century,” in The Problem of Punishment, eds. Deborah McDowell, Claudrena Harold, and Vesla Weaver (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming).

Languages

English, Spanish

Research profile

Research profile and publications