Dr Carol Fort (PhD Adelaide) Lecturer

Postal address:

Department of History
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia

Telephone: (+61) (08) 8201 2849
Fax: (+61) (08) 8201 3350
Email: Carol.Fort@flinders.edu.au
Location: Room 328 Social Sciences South Building

Dr Fort works in the field of Australian social-political history and has published work on colonial government in South Australia, on wartime industry and employment and several biographies, including commissioned works. Her current research projects include a large-scale water history of Australia and an internationally comparative history of wartime employment policies.

Recent publications include:
Keeping a Trust: the Wyatt Benevolent Institution and its founder (forthcoming).
‘Leslie Claude Hunkin’ submitted to Australian Dictionary of Biography 2004. Accepted for inclusion in Volume 17.
‘World War II Labor Measures’ in St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide ed. Neil Schlager with introductions by Daniel Nelson and Willie Thomson (2004) St James Press (Gale/Thomson) Farmington Hills, MI.
‘Regulating the Labour Market in Australia’s Wartime democracy’ in Australian Historical Studies volume 34 No 122 October, 2003.
‘F.J. Shea’ in Australian Dictionary of Biography volume 16, edited by John Ritchie, (2002) Melbourne University Press.
Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (eds) Wakefield Companion to South Australian History (2001) Wakefield Press, Kent Town. (Research Associate to the project, Assistant Editor and Contributor of 300 entries ranging from World War II to Meals on Wheels, and from Essington Lewis to Mary Mackillop).
Electing Responsible Government, South Australia, 1857 (2001) State Electoral Office, Kensington.
Six entries (Playford, Wainwright, Elder, Hawker, Todd, and the Stuart Case) in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds) The Oxford Companion to Australian History (1998) OUP, Melbourne.
‘ “Equality of Sacrifice?” War Work in Salisbury, South Australia’, chapter 11 in Bernard O’Neil, Judith Raftery and Kerrie Round (eds) Playford’s South Australia: Essays on the History of South Australia, 1933-1969 (1996) Assoc. of Professional Historians Inc., Adelaide.