Rate My Professor Claire Mclisky

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.