Dr. Linda Young |
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| Position | Senior Lecturer | |
| linda.young@deakin.edu.au | ||
| Area | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | |
| Phone | +61 3 925 17130 | |
| Campus | Burwood | |
| Location | Burwood (Room D1.07) | |
| Role and profile |
Linda Young is a historian, curator and teacher. The focus of her historical work is social and cultural aspects of 19th century personal and domestic life in the Anglo world, which spreads for context into imperial, colonial and gender history from the 18th into the 20th centuries. (See Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia, Britain, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003). As a museum-based historian, Linda specialises in material culture as historical evidence, with special interest in personal and domestic assemblages. In the 1980s-90s, Linda worked as a curator at the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Sydney (now the Powerhouse Museum); the Western Australian Museum, Perth; and as a professional historian, collections management and interpretation consultant in Adelaide. In all locations, she also worked on historic sites, requiring broad heritage management skills. She taught Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Canberra for many years before moving to Deakin in 2005. In Canberra she spent ten years as a volunteer with the Canberra & District Historical Society's Blundell's Cottage - so she knows and appreciates the volunteer perspective on heritage management, as well as the paid side of the business! Having worked widely around the country, Linda has knowledge, experience and friends in many places. This professional career has furnished assorted studies of genres of heritage, such as house museums and museum villages, and arts-and-industry collections and their antecedent great exhibitions. With the advantage of the slightly detached stance of academe, Linda also writes as a reviewer of museum exhibitions/interpretive presentations in journals. Her interests in heritage genres and communication converge in the field of heritage interpretation and the audiences for whom it is developed. She continues to work as a consultant, mainly developing site interpretation plans, museum strategic development plans and in the assessment of cultural significance. Linda is a member of sundry heritage, museum, object, archaeology and history committees in Australia and internationally. |
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| Teaching responsibilities | Course Director, Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies; AIM 707: Traditional Buildings; AIM 721: The Museum: Context and Issues; AIM 725: Heritage & Museums: Strategy and Marketing; AIM 726: Heritage & Museums: Operational Issues; AIM 727: Exhibitions | |
| Research interests |
Genres of heritage, currently focusing on the historic house as a species of museum History of collections and museums, including the 19thC international exhibitions Visitor studies and evaluation of the effectiveness of heritage presentations Museology and interpretation of historic sites Personal and domestic material culture Material culture theory and methods Critical review of exhibitions |
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| Current research projects |
Historic houses as a species of museum Surburban archaeology: the growth of middle class culture in Melbourne (ARC project DP1093001, with Prof Tim Murray, AssProf Susan Lawrence and AssProf Andy May |
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| Service to the University, discipline or community |
Museums Australia (Vic) Annual Museum Awards: Judge, 2008 Museums Australia (Vic) Museum Accreditation Program: Panel member, 2007-11 |
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| Awards | Commendation for excellence in teaching, 2009 | |
| Qualifications | PhD (Flinders); MA (Penn); MA (Hons) (Sydney); BA (Hons) (Sydney) | |
| Conferences |
• ‘Intimate spectacles: house museums, heroes and their canons’, Contained Memories, Massey University, Wellington NZ, 10.12.10 • ‘The Cultural Baggage of Home’, Diaspora and Transnational Homes, Histories of Home Network, British Library, 21.5.2010 • ‘The ghost of James Cook in Cooks’ Cottage’: Locating History, Australian Historical Association, Melbourne University, 10.7.08 • ‘Assessing the significance of documentary heritage’, Communities and Memories: UNESCO Memory of the World program, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 22.2.08 |
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| Research link | View Deakin associated research data | |
| Publications | 'How like England we can be' : the Australian international exhibitions in the nineteenth century, in Darian-Smith, Kate (eds), Seize the day : exhibitions, Australia and the world, pp. 12.1-12.19, Monash University ePress, Clayton, Vic. 2008 'Gentility : a historical context for the material culture of the table in the 'long 19th century' 1780-1915', in Symonds, James (eds), Table settings : the material culture and social context of dining, AD 1700-1900, pp. 133-143, Oxbow Books, Oxford, England, 2010 | |
