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Biography
Mark Dawson was born in Christchurch (Aotearoa/New Zealand) toward the end of last century. Completing undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Auckland, he was awarded a Prince of Wales Cambridge Commonwealth Trust scholarship for doctoral study in the U.K. He was a student at Cambridge’s youngest college, Wolfson, and spent three hectic years dividing his time between the History and English Faculties. He was awarded the History Faculty’s Members’ prize for work on that famous early modern Cantabrigian, Samuel Pepys. He joined the ANU as associate lecturer in 2005.
Qualifications
MA (Hons) Auckland PhD Cambridge.
Research Interests
Early modern Britain and the Anglo–Atlantic world, including social inequality; the body, health, and medicine; seventeenth-century English drama and literature.
Research Interests
Current student projects
Goldthorpe, F., ‘British Women of the Portocracy: Port Wine Dinastias, Family and Transcultural Lives, 1678–1807’ (PhD)
Paterson, A., 'Tobacco as a Catalyst for Socio-Cultural Change in England, c.1570–1720' (MPhil)
Past student projects
Dempsey, S.W., 'Historia Successorum Regum Britanniæ: A Study in Medieval and Early Modern English Historico-Legal Argument' (PhD, 2021).
Fitzgerald, C., ‘Female Fashion in Restoration England’ (Hons. 2020).
Goodwin, A., ‘ “We have shamefully Indianized”: Cultural and Bodily Change in the Colonial New England Environment’ (Hons. 2019).
Olearczyk, F., ‘Arthur’s Britain and Robin’s England: Uses of the Medieval Past in Seventeenth-Century England’ (Hons. 2019).
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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'No God but onely nature': Explaining Astrology's Decline in Stuart England
Dawson, M. S., 2022, In: Parergon. 39, 1, p. 27-54 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bodies complexioned Human variation and racism in early modern English culture, c. 16001750
Dawson, M., 2019, 1st edition ed. United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. 261 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Book Review: New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849.
Dawson, M., 2016, In: Theatre Survey. 57, 1, p. 139-141Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
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Book Review - Renaissance Impostors and Proofs of identity by Miriam Eliav-Feldon
Dawson, M., 2014, In: Parergon. 31, 1, p. 205-207Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review
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The Fate(s) of an Astrological Manuscript: Le Neve's Vindication and MS. Ashmole 418
Dawson, M., 2014, In: Bodleian Library Record. 27, 1, p. 105-112Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
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