Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Dr Joel Barnes

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
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Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Dr Joel Barnes

Researcher biography

Joel Barnes is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, working on the Science and Religion: Exploring the Spectrum project run by the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society. His work on the project examines the history of relations between religion and evolutionary science within Australian higher education. Before joining the University of Queensland, Joel was a Research Associate in the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney, working on an Australian Research Council-funded project on the history of humanities institutions in Australia since 1945, for which he is finalising a monograph on the humanities disciplines and the idea of the national interest.

Research Interests

  • Science and religion
  • History of universities
  • History of humanities
  • History of science
  • History of knowledge

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts, Monash University

Publications

Book Chapters (3)
Journal Articles (16)
Newspaper Article (1)

Book Chapters

Barnes, Joel (2023). Evolution in colonial Australia: Institutions, religion, and moral formation. Evolutionary theories and religious traditions: National, transnational, and global perspectives, 1800–1920. (pp. 57-76) edited by Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai. Pittsburgh, PA United States: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi: 10.2307/jj.8137432.7
Barnes, Joel (2023). Knowledge in the Air: Circulation, Actors, and Arenas of Knowledge. Knowledge Actors: Revisiting Agency in the History of Knowledge. (pp. 201-216) edited by Johan Östling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press.
Barnes, Joel (2022). “This great principle of the continuity of phenomena”: Edward Aveling on the evolutionism of Darwin and Marx. Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. (pp. 121-136) edited by Ian Hesketh. Pittsburgh, PA United States: University of Pittsburgh Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2k4fwpr.10

Journal Articles

Barnes, Joel (2024). ‘God-professor’: recovering the meanings of a contested concept in Australasian university history. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00220620.2024.2325702
Barnes, Joel (2023). Evolutionary science in denominational colleges at Australian universities, 1907–2020. Paedagogica Historica, 1-19. doi: 10.1080/00309230.2023.2230450
Barnes, Joel (2023). Vale: Stuart Macintyre, 1947-2021. Melbourne Historical Journal, 48 (1), 7-8.
Barnes, Joel (2023). The ‘two cultures’ in Australia. History of Education, 52 (6), 849-867. doi: 10.1080/0046760x.2022.2097742
Barnes, Joel (2023). Australian universities and Atlantic slavery. History Australia, 20 (1), 41-63. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2022.2129265
Barnes, Joel and Pietsch, Tamson (2022). The history of knowledge and the history of education. History of Education Review, 51 (2), 109-122. doi: 10.1108/her-06-2022-0020
Barnes, Joel (2022). Review of: Hoffenberg, Peter H. A Science of our own: Exhibitions and the rise of Australian public science. Centaurus, 64 (2), 555-557. doi: 10.1484/j.cnt.5.130449
Barnes, Joel (2022). Review of Forms of knowledge: developing the history of knowledge Edited by Johan Ostling, David Larsson Heidenblad and Anna Nilsson Hammar, Nordic Academic Press, 2020. History of Education Review, 51 (1), 96-98. doi: 10.1108/her-06-2022-094
Barnes, Joel (2021). The humanities in Australia and the problem of Europe. History of Humanities, 6 (2), 571-593. doi: 10.1086/715940
Barnes, Joel (2021). Revisiting the ‘Darwin–Marx correspondence’: Multiple discovery and the rhetoric of priority. History of the Human Sciences, 35 (2), 29-54. doi: 10.1177/09526951211019226
Barnes, Joel (2020). Collegial governance in postwar Australian universities. History of Education Review, 49 (2), 149-164. doi: 10.1108/her-12-2019-0050
Barnes, Joel (2019). Book review: Historicizing humans: deep time, evolution, and race in nineteenth-century British sciences. English Historical Review, 134 (569), 1033-1035. doi: 10.1093/ehr/cez178
Barnes, Joel (2018). Book review: Historicism and the human sciences in Victorian Britain. European Review of History, 25 (6), 1087-1089. doi: 10.1080/13507486.2018.1434050
Barnes, Joel (2018). The British women's suffrage movement and the ancient constitution, 1867-1909. Historical Research, 91 (253), 505-527. doi: 10.1111/1468-2281.12234
Barnes, Joel (2014). The right to read: the book censorship abolition league, 1934-37. Labour History, 1 (107), 75-93. doi: 10.5263/labourhistory.107.0075
Barnes, Joel (2013). Book review: W. Macmahon Ball: Politics for the People, by Ai Kobayashi. Melbourne Historical Journal, 41, 130-132.

Newspaper Article

Barnes, Joel (2020, 07 03). Defunding arts degrees is the latest battle in a 40-year culture war The Conversation