Associate Professor Stephen Robertson
Lecturer, Key Issues in American Culture & USSC Research Associate
stephen.robertson@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9351 3782
http://www-personal.arts.usyd.edu.au/sterobrt/
Associate Professor Stephen Robertson teaches a postgraduate unit, Key Issues in American Culture, for the US Studies Centre.
A member of the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Robertson completed his PhD at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, and in the Department of History at George Mason University.
He is the author of Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960, published in 2005 and, with Shane White, Stephen Garton and Graham White, of Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, published by Harvard University Press in 2010, and the website Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930. That site won the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History in 2010. He is currently working on a study of private detectives and undercover surveillance in the US from 1865 to 1941, and, with Shane White and Stephen Garton, on the 1935 Harlem riot.
A recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, Robertson also coordinates the Faculty of Arts’ major in American Studies, and is currently developing a collaboration with the American Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
