Kyle Harvey

I am an historian based in Melbourne, Australia. My research interests encompass media history, migration history, and the history of radicalism in Australia, New Zealand, North America and the Pacific. I have related research interests in oral history, intellectual history, memory, biography, and the history of education.

As a Research Fellow at the University of Tasmania, I have published on the interconnected histories of migration, cultural diversity, and television. I am especially interested in the politics of representation, identity, and memory within the performing arts industry more broadly.

Elsewhere, I have published on antinuclear activism, the politics, culture and social worlds of the left during the Cold War years, and the transnational connections that influenced individuals and communities on both sides of the Pacific world from the 1950s to the 1980s. My first book, 'American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace' was published in 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan.

I maintain an ongoing interest in the methodology of oral history, and have served as the inaugural Oral History Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES). 

My research has been funded by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the State Library of New South Wales, the Australia & New Zealand American Studies Association, the University of California-Los Angeles, and Smith College (Massachusetts, USA).

I previously taught world history, Australian history, U.S. history, historiography, and film history at Macquarie University from 2007-2016, and Australian Studies at Western Sydney University College in 2016.

I also work as a research administrator on a number of Australian Research Council-funded projects at the University of Melbourne and Monash University in theatre studies, digital history, and the creative industries.