Research Supervision in the History of Economic Thought

The following is a list of researchers at Australian universities who have expressed an interest in supervising Honours, Masters, and PhD research on the history of economic thought.

Associate Professor Miriam Bankovsky
La Trobe University
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Supervision topics: Nineteenth-century economic thought in Britain and Europe; Poverty in the history of economic thought; Economics and the family; Interwar consumer and household economics in the US; Birth control, contraception, and abortion in the history of economic thought; US economists in the Great Society and the War on Poverty; Histories of feminist, gender neoclassical, and queer economics; The relation between histories of political, social, and economic thought


Associate Professor Peter Docherty
University of Technology Sydney
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Professor David Gilchrist
University of Western Australia
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Professor Paul Oslington
Alphacrucis University College
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Supervision topics: Economics and religion; History of international trade theory; Natural law and economics.


Dr. Matthew Smith
University of Sydney
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Supervision topics: history of economic thought; Macroeconomics; Classical economics; Growth and distribution; Monetary economics.


Dr. Riko Stevens
University of Notre Dame Australia
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Supervision topics: Austrian economics; Classical political economy; Financial market history; Late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century economics; New institutional economics; Public choice theory. I am also open to supervising other topics in the history of economic thought broadly interpreted.


Associate Professor Ryan Walter
University of Queensland
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Supervision topics: political and economic thought in Britain and Europe 1650-1950; the relationship between political and economic thought; the history of “theory”; the persona of the economist; the office of the economist; methods in HET.


Dr. Claire Wright
Universtiy of Technology Sydney
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Note: this is in no way a definitive list of academics who are willing to supervise topics on the history of economic thought. If you are affliated with a university and would like to be included in the above list, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Last updated: 11/2024