Research Supervision

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.

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 affiliated with a university and would like to be included in the above list, please contact mfrith4@une.edu.au

Associate Professor Miriam Bankovsky
La Trobe University
M.Bankovsky@latrobe.edu.au
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

Dr Mathew Frith
University of New England
mfrith4@une.edu.au
Supervisor topics: American economic thought, 19th century economic thought, protectionist thought. I am also open to supervising other topics in the history of economic thought broadly interpreted.

Dr. Riko Stevens
University of Notre Dame Australia
riko.stevens@nd.edu.au
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
r.walter1@uq.edu.au
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.