Lecturer, Retail History, Macquarie University
I am a lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University with a research interest in urban, business and retail history. I have published a number of articles and book chapters on retail and retail property history, including in Urban History, Australian Economic History Review, History Australia and the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing. I am currently writing a monograph on the history of shopping centres in Australia. I am the author of Managing the Marketplace: Reinventing Shopping Centres in Post-War Australia (Routledge, 2020).
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