Professor Jock McCulloch

Position	Professor, History
School / Work Unit	Global Studies, Social Science &Planning
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 3509 jock.mcculloch@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 8 Level: 6 Room: 34 City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

Professor Jock McCulloch
Publications

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Book Cover: Defending the Indefensible - The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival by Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, upcoming release in August 2008.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Monash, PhD Monash

Research Areas

Politics of development
Colonial history of Southern Africa
Post-colonial studies
Medical sociology

Current Research

In January 2007 Jock began a contemporary history of the occupational disease among South African gold miners. The project, which is being funded by the Australian Research Council, runs parallel with an important legal action in the Pretoria High Court against the mining conglomerate Anglo/American.

Recent Research Grants

Silicosis on South African Gold Mines: The History and Politics of an Occupational Disease, 1950 to 2005. Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 2007-9, $277,000

Asbestos: The History of a Commodity Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 2004-6, $91,000.

Asbestos in South Africa: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State.
Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 1999-2001, $75,000.

Asbestos in South Africa: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State.
ARC Small Grant, 1998, $10,000.

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