Research Staff
Dr.
Robert Crocker is the Schools Research Degrees Coordinator and
Honours Coordinator. Robert also acts as a postgraduate supervisor, and
coordinates the two cross-disciplinary undergraduate history and theory
of architecture and design courses. He is an active researcher, with
interests in the history of design and urban design, the history of
early modern science and religion (the topic of his doctorate), and
modern design and material culture. He studied Renaissance and Modern
European history at the ANU and Adelaide University, and went on to gain
a doctorate in the history of early modern science (D.Phil) at the
University of Oxford in 1987. Before joining the University of SA in
1996, Robert taught modern history at Flinders University and the
history of architecture and design at the University of Adelaide.
Dr.
Christine Garnaut is Research Fellow in the Louis Laybourne Smith
School of Architecture and Design (LLS School). She has several roles
within the School including: Director Architecture Archive, Research
Coordinator, Coordinator Centre for Settlement Studies. An historian,
her research interests include Australian architectural history,
planning history and urban design. She was employed as a secondary
teacher of English and History prior to commencing postgraduate studies
in 1992 in the LLS School. During her candidature and until 1997, when
she took up her current position, she tutored in architectural history.
She currently tutors in the Honours program and supervises Honours and
postgraduate candidates.
Her doctoral thesis 'Model and Maker: Colonel Light Gardens and Charles
Reade', focused on the design origins, plan, architecture and early
history of the Adelaide model garden suburb of Colonel Light Gardens and
on its designer Charles Reade (1880-1933). Since its completion she has
published Colonel Light Gardens: model garden suburb (1999). She is
continuing her research towards a biography of Reade, internationally
recognised for his contribution to early twentieth century planning
theory and practice in Australasia, Asia and Africa.