Academia in a Time of Pandemic: An Australian Perspective

Douglas B. Craig

doi:10.5070/T8112050216

Journal of Transnational American Studies (Dec 2020)

Academia in a Time of Pandemic: An Australian Perspective

Douglas B. Craig

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Douglas B. Craig: DOUGLAS B. CRAIG is Reader in History at the Australian National University. He is the author of After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1918–1934 (University of North Carolina Press, 1992), Fireside Politics: Radio and Political Culture in the United States, 1920–1940 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and Progressives at War: Newton D. Baker and William G. McAdoo, 1863–1941 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), and is currently working on a book project exploring the effects of the Great War on US political culture between 1918 and 1941.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5070/T8112050216
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 2

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Although Australia has (so far) contained the spread of Covid-19 within its population relatively successfully, its universities and academic life have suffered greatly as a result of the pandemic. This has been the result of campus shutdowns, unsympathetic government policy, and the collapse of the previously lucrative supply of international students. The result has been financial stringency throughout the Australian university sector, significant job losses, and the cancellation and inhibition of the international collaboration and interaction that is vital to our common global academic and research endeavours.

covid-19 cultural analysis

Published in Journal of Transnational American Studies

ISSN: 1940-0764 (Online)
Publisher: eScholarship Publishing, University of California
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Social Sciences: Social sciences (General)
Website: https://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas

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