Professor Jock McCulloch

Position	Professor, History
School / Work Unit	Global Studies, Social Science &Planning
Contact Details	+(61 3) 9925 3509 jock.mcculloch@rmit.edu.au
Location	Building: 8 Level: 6 Room: 34 City Campus
Portfolio	Design & Social Context

Key activities

Jock McCulloch has worked as a Legislative Research Specialist for the Australian parliament and has taught at a number of universities. His principle interests are in the colonial history of southern Africa and the history of medicine in particular. He has done field work in Algeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa , Swaziland, Lesotho, Malawi and Kenya. Jock is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Monash, PhD Monash

Research/Scholarship

Research Areas

• Politics of development
• Colonial history of Southern Africa
• Medical sociology

Current Research

In January 2007 Jock began a contemporary history of the occupational disease silicosis among South African gold miners. The project, which is being funded by the Australian Research Council, runs parallel with an important legal action in the Pretoria High Court against the mining conglomerate Anglo/American.

Publications

Book Cover: Defending the Indefensible - The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival by Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, upcoming release in August 2008.

Books

Jock McCulloch & Geoffrey Tweedale (2008) Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jock McCulloch . (2007). Colonial Psychiatry and the ‘African Mind’. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Re-released by CUP in paperback in September 2007.

Jock McCulloch . (2002). Asbestos Blues: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State in South Africa. London: James Currey/ Indiana University Press/Juta Press.

Jock McCulloch . (2002). Black Soul White Artefact: Fanon’s Clinical Psychology and Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Re-released by CUP in paperback in June 2002.

Jock McCulloch . (2000). Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902 to 1935. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,.

Jock McCulloch . (1986). Asbestos: Its Human Cost. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press.

Jock McCulloch . (1984). The Politics of Agent Orange: The Australian Experience. Melbourne: William Heinemann.

Jock McCulloch . (1983). In the Twilight of Revolution: The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Recent articles and chapters in books

Jock McCulloch (2007) “Surviving Blue Asbestos: Mining and Occupational Disease in South Africa and Australia” Transformation No 65, pp. 68-93.

Jock McCulloch & Geoffrey Tweedale (2007) “Science is not Sufficient: Irving J. Selikoff and the Asbestos Tragedy” New Solutions, Vol. 17(4) 293-310.

Jock McCulloch & Geoffrey Tweedale (2007). “Shooting the Messenger: The Vilification of Irving J. Selikoff” International Journal of Health Services Vol. 37, No. 4, pp.619-34.

Jock McCulloch (2007) “The mine at Baryulgil: Work, Knowledge, and Asbestos Disease” Labour History No. 92, pp. 113-28.

Jock McCulloch . (2006) “Saving the Asbestos Industry, 1960 to 2003”. Public Health Reports, Vol. 121, No. 5, pp. 609-14.

Jock McCulloch . (2006). “The Mine at Wittenoom: Blue Asbestos, Labour and Occupational Disease”. Labour History Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-19.

Research Grants

Silicosis on South African Gold Mines: The History and Politics of an Occupational Disease, 1950 to 2005. Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 2007-9, $277,000

Asbestos: The History of a Commodity Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 2004-6, $91,000.

Asbestos in South Africa: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State.

Australian Research Council (Discovery) Large Grant, 1999-2001, $75,000.

Asbestos in South Africa: Labour, Capital, Physicians and the State.