Dr Michael Sturma

Qualifications:
BA (Centre College of Kentucky) MA (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Ph.D. (Australian National University)

Teaching:

• Australian Studies
• Australian History
• U.S. History
• Crime and History

Research Interests:

• Policing and crime
• Popular music
• Film and history
• South Pacific History
• Naval History

Historical Film Consultants:

• Michael Sturma is a founder of Historical Film Consultants.
  Check out this page for information on the unit Hollywood and History.

Selected Publications:

• Vice in a Vicious Society: Crime and Convicts in Mid-Nineteenth Century New South Wales (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1983)
• Australian Rock'n'Roll: The First Wave (Sydney: Kangaroo Press, 1991)
• South Sea Maidens: Western Fantasy and Sexual Politics in the South Pacific (Westport. CT: Greenwood Press, 2002)
• Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006)

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