Associate Professor Martin Crotty
Associate Professor in Australian History, Honours Coordinator
+61 7 336 53288
Room E315, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Martin Crotty’s research interests include war and Australian society, sports history, masculinity, and education.
Associate Professor Martin Crotty studied in New Zealand before moving to Australia to undertake postgraduate studies at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. After four years of teaching History at the University of Newcastle in NSW, he took up his current position teaching History at the University of Queensland in early 2003. He has since served as the Deputy Dean of the Graduate School and is the current Head of School for the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry.
Martin's major publications include Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity, 1870-1920 (1901) and a variety of journal articles, book chapters and edited collections, including The Great Mistakes of Australian History (2006), Turning Points in Australian History (2008) and Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War (2010). He has supervised widely, and has seen some fifteen MPhil and PhD students through to completion.
Publications
Books
Crotty, Martin, Diamant, Neil J. and Edele, Mark (2020). The politics of veteran benefits in the twentieth century: a comparative history. New York, NY, United States: Cornell University Press. doi: 10.1515/9781501751653
Crotty, Martin (2001). Making the Australian male: Middle-class masculinity 1870-1920. Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press.
Book Chapters
Crotty, Martin and Holbrook, Carolyn (2021). The Anzac Legend Has Blinded Australia to its War Atrocities. It's Time for a Reckoning. No, You're Not Entitled to Your Opinion: And 49 Other Essays that got the World Talking. (pp. 116-119) Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Thames and Hudson.
Crotty, Martin (2017). The RSL and post-World War I returned soldier violence in Australia. Legacies of violence: rendering the unspeakable past in modern Australia. (pp. 185-198) edited by Robert Mason. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books.
Ariotti, Kate and Crotty, Martin (2016). The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War. Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 68-80) edited by Martin Crotty and Robert Hess. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Crotty, Martin (2015). Social conflict and control, protest and repression (Australia). 1914-1918-online: international encyclopedia of the First World War. (pp. 1-13) edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer and Bill Nasson. Berlin, Germany: Freie Universitat Berlin. doi: 10.15463/ie1418.10605
Crotty, Martin (2012). Melbourne in microcosm. Written into history: celebrating fifty years of the Melbourne Historical Journal, 1961-2011. (pp. 313-315) edited by Keir Wotherspoon and Erik Ropers. Melbourne, Australia: University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies.
Crotty, Martin (2010). Queenslanders who fought in the Great War. Found in Fryer: Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 82-83) edited by Roslyn Follett. Brisbane: University of Queensland Library.
Crotty, Martin (2010). The returned sailors' and soldiers' imperial league of Australia, 1916-1946. Anzac legacies: Australians and the aftermath of war. (pp. 166-186) edited by Martin Crotty and Marina Larson. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Crotty, Martin and Larson, Marina (2010). Introduction: The many faces of return. Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War. (pp. 1-16) edited by Martin Crotty and Marina Larson. North Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Crotty, Martin A. (2009). 25 April 1915 australian troops land at gallipoli: Trial, trauma and the 'birth of the nation'. Turning points in Australian history. (pp. 100-114) edited by Martin A. Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney, NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press.
Crotty, Martin (2009). Scouts down under: Scouting, militarism and "manliness" in Australia, 1908-1920. Scouting frontiers: Youth and the Scout movement's first century. (pp. 74-88) edited by Nelson R. Block and Tammy M. Proctor. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Crotty, Martin A. (2008). Constructing whiteness in the Australian adventure story, 1875-1920. Transnational whiteness matters. (pp. 133-146) edited by Moreton-Robinson, Aileen, Casey, Maryrose and Nicoll, Fiona. Lanham, U.S.: Lexington Books.
Crotty, Martin A. and David Andrew Roberts (2008). Introduction. Turning points in Australian history. (pp. 1-17) edited by Crotty, Martin A. and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney NSW, Australia: University of New South Wales Press Ltd.
Crotty, M. A. (2007). Masculinity, Civics and War: From the Public Schools to the RSL. Intersections: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Australasian Studies. (pp. 37-54) edited by Allen, M. and Dhawan. R. K.. Janakpuri, New Delhi: Prestige Books.
Crotty, Martin A. (2006). Naive militarism: Australian's World War I generation. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 108-122) edited by Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts. Sydney, NSW, Australia: UNSW Press.
Crotty, Martin and Roberts, David Andrew (2006). Introduction: Contemplating the Role of Mistakes in Australia's Past. The Great Mistakes of Australian History. (pp. 1-13) edited by M. Crotty and D.A. Roberts. Sydney, NSW Australia: UNSW Press.
Crotty, M. A. (2004). Pointing the Way - Antipodean Responses to J.A. Mangan's Athleticism and Related Studies: Scotch College, Melbourne, in the Inter-War Years. 'Serious sport' J.A. Hangan's Contribution to the History of Sport. (pp. 64-81) edited by Scott A. G. M. Crawford. Great Britain: Frank Cass.
Crotty, M. A. and Eklund, E. (2003). Introduction: Why History?. Australia to 1901: Selected readings in the making of a Nation. (pp. 1-8) edited by Martin Crotty and Erik Eklund. Victoria: Tertiary Press.
Journal Articles
Crotty, Martin (2024). Addressing the decline of academic history in Australia. History Australia, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2024.2415501
Crotty, Martin and Sendziuk, Paul (2024). Changes in Australian and New Zealand University History Staffing Profiles, 2016 to 2022. Australian Historical Studies, 55 (3), 1-25. doi: 10.1080/1031461x.2024.2370771
Crotty, Martin (2020). Review of - The First World War, the universities and the professions in Australia : , edited by Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne. First World War Studies, 11 (1), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/19475020.2020.1805149
Sendziuk, Paul and Crotty, Martin (2020). The history curriculum in New Zealand universities. New Zealand Journal of History, 54 (1), 69-93.
Crotty, Martin and Sendziuk, Paul (2019). The numbers game: history staffing in Australian and New Zealand universities. Australian Historical Studies, 50 (3), 354-377. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1601750
Crotty, Martin (2019). Book review: Brisbane at War 1899-1918. Queensland Review, 26 (1), 183-184. doi: 10.1017/qre.2019.19
Sendziuk, Paul and Crotty, Martin (2019). ‘Fragmented, parochial, and specialised’?: the history curriculum in Australian and New Zealand universities. History Australia, 16 (2), 239-265. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2019.1590152
Crotty, Martin (2019). What more do you want?: Billy Hughes and Gilbert dyett in late 1919. History Australia, 16 (1), 52-71. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2018.1558069
Crotty, Martin (2018). Book review: No End of a Lesson: Australia's Unified National System of Higher Education. By Stuart Macintyre, André Brett and Gwilym Croucher. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2017.. Australian Historical Studies, 49 (4), 566-568. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2018.1520081
Crotty, Martin (2018). Charles Bean: man, myth, legacy. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12433
Crotty, Martin (2017). War stories: the war memoir in history and literature. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63 (3), 490-491. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12399
Crotty, Martin (2017). In their footsteps? Anzac fun runs and the consumption of the past. Honest History
Crotty, Martin (2016). The war with Germany. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 62 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12213
Crotty, Martin (2015). Review of Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 139-140.
Crotty, Martin (2015). Art in Oceania: a new history. Journal of Australian Studies, 39 (1), 108-109. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2014.996951
Crotty, Martin and Hess, Rob (2014). Introduction: sport, war and society in Australia and New Zealand. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (18), 2295-2296. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.990290
Crotty, Martin and Stockings, Craig (2014). The minefield of Australian military history. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 60 (4), 580-591. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12077
Ariotti, Kate and Crotty, Martin (2014). The role of sport for Australian POWs of the Turks during the First World War. International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (18), 2362-2374. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2014.915519
Crotty, Martin (2013). Our schools and the war. Australian Historical Studies, 44 (2), 318-319. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2013.793248
Crotty, Martin and Edele, Mark (2013). Total war and entitlement: towards a global history of veteran privilege. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 59 (1), 15-32. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12001
Crotty, Martin (2013). Sport, popular culture, and the future: some commentary. Journal of Sport History, 40 (1), 57-67.
Crotty, Martin (2012). The information battlefield: representing Australians at war edited by Kevin Foster. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (3), 463-464. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01647.x
Scates, Bruce, Frances, Rae, Reeves, Keir, Crotty, Martin, Knapman, Gareth, Seal, Graham, Becker, Annette, Reeves, Andrew, Soutphommasane, Tim, Blackburn, Kevin, Clarke, Stephen J, Stanley, Peter, Hoskins, Andrew, Winter, Jay, Bridge, Carl, James, Laura, Wheatley, Rebecca, Riches, Leah, McCosker, Alexandra and Sleight, Simon (2012). Anzac Day at home and abroad: towards a history of Australia’s National Day. History Compass, 10 (7), 523-536. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2012.00862.x
Crotty, Martin and Spittel, Christina (2012). The one day of the year and all that: Anzac between history and memory. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 58 (1), 123-131. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2012.01628.x
Crotty, Martin (2012). Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of Australian Defence. Journal of Australian Studies, 36 (4), 517-518. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2012.729346
Crotty, Martin (2011). War stories in Australia. Australian Historical Studies, 42 (1), 148-154. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2011.543059
Crotty, Martin (2010). Bardia: Myth, Reality and the Heirs of Anzac. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (3), 400-401. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2010.498335
Crotty, M (2010). Men of Mont St Quentin: Between Victory and Death. Journal of Australian Studies, 34 (2), 246-247.
Crotty, M (2009). The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War 1914-1918. JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIAN STUDIES, 33 (1), 111-112.
Crotty, Martin (2009). Teaching anzac: Fraught territory, teachable moments and professional responsibility. Agora, 44 (2), 13-17.
Bonnell, Andrew and Crotty, Martin (2008). Australia's history under Howard, 1996-2007. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 617 (1), 149-165. doi: 10.1177/0002716207310818
Gregson, Sarah and Crotty, Martin (2008). The RSL: A Rejoinder. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 54 (1), 132-134. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2008.00489.x
Crotty, Martin and Harper, Melissa (2008). Editors' note. Journal of Australian Studies, 32 (1) doi: 10.1080/14443050801993776
Crotty, M. A. and Melrose, C. (2007). Anzac Day Day, Brisbane, Australia: Triumphalism, Mourning Politics in Interwar Commemoration. The Round Table, 96 (393), 679-692. doi: 10.1080/00358530701634267
Crotty, Martin (2007). The Anzac citizen: Towards a history of the RSL. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53 (2), 183-193. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2007.00453.x
Crotty, M. (2007). Review of the Return to Gallipoli: Walking the battlefields of the great war. Australian Journal of Politics And History, 53 (1), 152-153.
Crotty, Martin and Eklund, Erik (2006). History as service teaching : Possibilities and pitfalls. History Australia, 3 (2), 47.1-47.10. doi: 10.2104/ha060047
Crotty, Martin (2006). Book review: Changing Ways of Death in Twentieth-Century Australia: War, Medicine and the Funeral Business. By Pat Jalland (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2006). Australian Journal of Politics And History, 52 (3), 497-498. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00431.x
Crotty, Martin (2006). Review of Jacqueline Templeton, From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962. API Review of Books (44)
Crotty, Martin A. (2006). Review of Anne Blair, Ruxton: A Biography. API Review of Books (44)
Crotty, Martin (2006). (Book Review) Reconsidering Gallipoli. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Crotty, Martin (2006). (Book Review) The Gates of Memory: Australian People’s Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War. Australian Journal Of Politics And History, 52 (1), 137-139. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Crotty, Martin and Barrett, Craig (2006). Anzac, the cynics, the sacred and the secular. History Teacher, 43 (3), 21-28.
Casey, Maryrose, Crotty, Martin and Ryan, Delyse (2006). Colour, movement and jostling in public. Journal of Australian Studies, 30 (89), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388087
Crotty, Martin (2006). Performing military manhood: The wartime Head of the River Races in Melbourne, 1915-1918. J A S, Australia's Public Intellectual Forum, 30 (89), 15-26. doi: 10.1080/14443050609388089
Crotty, M A (2006). Review of Bigger than Gallipoli: War, history and memory in Australia by L Reed. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 137-139.
Crotty, M. (2006). Review of Telling the truth about aboriginal history.. Journal of Pacific History, 41 (1), 108-109.
Crotty, Martin (2006). (Book Review) Reconsidering Gallipoli. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 139-140. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2006.00412a.x
Crotty, M A (2006). Review of The gates of memory: Australian people's experiences and memories of loss and the great war by T Luckins. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 52 (1), 139-139.
Barrett, C. A. and Crotty, M A (2006). Truths devalued by myth-makers. The Australian, 1 (1), 1-4.
Crotty, M. (2005). Victors and vanquished in the history wars. The Brisbane Line
Bonnell, A. G. and Crotty, M. A. (2004). An Australian "historikerstreit"? Review article. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 50 (3), 425-433. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8497.2004.00345.x
Crotty, Martin (2003). Symposium Review: Australia's Heart of Darkness: Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002 (international edition, New York: Basic Books, 2003). Pp. xii + 3. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, 12 (2), 164-170. doi: 10.1023/A:1024906613292
Crotty, M. A. (2003). Pointing the way - Antipodean responses to J.A. Mangan's athleticism and related studies: Scotch College, Melbourne, in the inter-war years. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20 (4), 64-81. doi: 10.1080/09523360412331305893
Crotty, M. A. (2003). The making of the man: Australian public schoolboy sporting violence, 1850-1914. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 20 (3), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09523360412331305753
Crotty, M. A. (2003). Review of Sport in the national imagination by Richard Cashman. History Australia: Journal of the Australian Historical Association, 1 (1), 119-121.
Crotty, Martin (2002). Review of Margot Fry, Tom's Letter's: the Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman. Australian Historical Studies, 33 (120), 425-427. doi: 10.1080/10314610208596230
Crotty, Martin (2001). Frontier Fantasies: Boys’ Adventure Stories and the Construction of Masculinity in Australia, 1870-1920. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 3 (1), 55-76.
Conference Papers
Crotty, Martin (2008). The Rise, Fall and Rise of the RSL, 1916-1946. When the Soldiers Return, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 28-30 November 2007. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland, School of History, Philosophy Religion and Classics.
Crotty, Martin (2007). Constructing Whiteness in the Australian Adventure Story, 1875-1920. Historicising Whiteness Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 22-24 November, 2006. Melbourne: RMIT Publishing.
Reference Entry
Moore, C. R. and Crotty, M. A. (2007). Australian Masculinities.
Newspaper Articles
Crotty, Martin (2006, 11 20). History's tough lessons still have relevance today The Courier Mail 17-17.
Crotty, Martin (2004, 06 08). Two sides to history The Courier Mail x-x.
Crotty, Martin (2003, 11 26). Heavenly game comes down to earth The Courier Mail 23-23.
Crotty, Martin (2003, 09 09). Right is Might in History The Courier Mail 15.