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Mr Richard Gehrmann


Name : Mr Richard Gehrmann
Position : Senior Lecturer (International Studies)
Section : Faculty of Arts
School of Humanities and Communication
Office : Q201
Location : Toowoomba Campus
Phone : +61 7 4631 1073
Extension : 1073
E-mail :
Qualifications : BA Griffith
PGDipSocSc Qld
GDipFET USQ
MA Deakin
MDefStud UNE
MEd USQ


Professional Affiliations
Australian Historical Association
International Australian Studies Association
Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
Oriental Society of Australia

Research Interests
War and memory; Migration, ethnic identity and intercountry adoption; Australians in Asia; White African identity

Recent Research Outcomes
Most notable :
Gehrmann, R, 2012, ‘Ascribing Identities and Negotiating Stereotypes: Case Study of Intercountry Adoptees’, in Hayes, A & Mason R (eds), Cultures in Refuge: Seeking Sanctuary in Modern Australia, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 113-129.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/22093/

Gehrmann, R, 2012,‘Colonial subalterns of Empire: Australians in India during the movement for Swaraj, 1920 – 1939’, The British World: Religion, Memory, Culture and Society, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, pp. 273-287.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/22032/

Mason, A and Gehrmann, R 2012 ‘Filtered nostalgia of the 1920s: Representations of the British university ideal’, The British World; Memory, Culture and Society, pp. 415-427. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/22037/

Gehrmann, R 2011,'The blogs of war: Narrating the Afghanistan and Iraq wars', In: Offord B & Garbutt, R (eds) 2011, A scholarly affair: Proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2010 National Conference, pp 71-80.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19690/

Mason, A and Gehrmann, R 2011 'No Brideshead Revisited, no summer of love in the empty quadrangle: challenges to scholarship in the on-line age', In: Offord B & Garbutt, R (eds) 2011, A scholarly affair: proceedings of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia 2010 National Conference, pp 97-106,
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19688/

Gehrmann, R 2010 'Migrants between worlds: inclusion, identity and Australian intercountry adoption'. in Hayes, A & Mason R (eds), Migrant Security 2010: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era, Public Memory Research Centre, pp. 70-76.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19379/

Gehrmann, R 2006 'Booze and gunshots in a hot dry summer: an African childhood', Coppertales: A Journal of Rural Arts, 10 . pp. 92-94.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/21838/

Gehrmann, R 2005 ‘Promoting a Multiracial Australia: Population policy and intercountry adoption’, AQ Journal of Contemporary Analysis, Vol. 77, Issue 4, July-August 2005, pp. 13-18.

Gehrmann, R 1995 'The Rising Sun of Australian Japan bashing? Racism, American cultural imperialism and Australian popular images of Asia', Overland, 138, 55-60.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/19653/

Gehrmann, R 1995, 'More than just EFTSUs: Malaysian and overseas students in Australia', Higher Education Research and Development, 14 (1). pp. 135-141.
http://eprints.usq.edu.au/21716/

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs
INR3003 War & Terrorism: Introduction to Strategic Studies
HIS4001 War and Society
INR3000 Australian Foreign Relations
INR1000 International Relations in a Globalizing Era
INR2002 Contemporary Issues in Asia
INR3002 Nationalism & Revolution in Southeast Asia
MAR8005 Master's Dissertation

Administrative Responsibilities
Program Coordinator, Master of Arts & Bachelor of International Studies
Discipline representative, School of Humanities & Communication Management Committee
Program Management Committee
Faculty of Arts Research Committee