Research

CDU Researcher Profile

Find a researcher by: Last name | Research area


Name:	Professor Alan Walter Powell
Qualifications:	Dip T BA (Hons) PhD
Main role:	Historian and Political Scientist
Phone:	+61 8 8946 6747
Fax:	{fax}+61 8
Email:	alan.powell@cdu.edu.au
Address:	School of Creative Arts and Humanities Faculty of Law, Business and Arts Charles Darwin University Darwin NT 0909 Australia

Research interests Publications Current projects Recent completions supervised

Research Interests Alan's research interests include: North Australian history War history (particularly World War II in the Pacific)

Recent Publications Books Powell, A. (2003). The Third Force. South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press Powell, A. W. War by Stealth; Australians and the Allied Intelligence Bureau, 1942-1945, Melbourne University Press, 1996 Powell, A. W. (1990). General Editor. NorthernTerritory Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1. Northern Territory University Press, darwin, NT, Australia. This volume encompasses short biographies of 250 people in NT history (100 authors). Powell, A. W. (1988). The Shadow's Edge; Australia's Northern War. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia. Second Edition, 1992. Powell, A. W. (1982). Far Country; a Short History of the Northern Territory. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia. Second Edition; revised edition, 1988; third edition, 1996; fourth (revised) Centenary of Federation edition 2000. Powell, A. W. (1978). Patrician Democrat: The Political Life of Charles Cowper, 1843-1890. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Australia. Articles Inglis, T.J.J., Foster, N.F., Gal, D., Powell, K., Mayo, M., Norton, R. and Currie, B.J. (2004) Preliminary report on the northern Australian Melioidosis environmental surveillance project. Epidemiology and Infection, 132, pp813-820 Powell, A. W. (2000). History and Geography of the Northern Territory. Article for 2000 reprinting of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Powell, A. W. Cowper, Sir Charles. In New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1997 Powell, A. W. (1997). In Search of a True Territorian: Exploring North Australian Identity. Occasional Paper No. 2, Centre for Asian-Pacific Studies, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK. Powell, A. W. (1993). Defending Northern Australia in the Second World War. In: Horner, D. (ed). The Army and the Future. Director of Army Activities and Public Affairs.

Current Projects US Army Engineers in Northern Australian, 1941-62 Field relations between US and Australian soldiers on WWII History of British Military Settlements in the Northern Territory Coast, 1824-1849

Recent Completions Supervised {completions in past 5 years}