HOMEPAGE OF

KEVIN PETER BLACKBURN

Lectures in History,

Humanities and Social Studies Education,

National Institute of Education,

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 E-mail kevin.blackburn@nie.edu.sg

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

BA Hons (First Class in History) University of Queensland (1986). 

PhD in History University of Queensland (1991). 

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WORK EXPERIENCE

1987-1988 Sessional Tutor in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. 

1989-1991 Assistant Course Writer for long distance education programmes, and Research Assistant, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia. 

1991-1993 Research Assistant in the History and Government Departments at the University of Queensland, and Sessional Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. 

1993-2004 Lecturer/Assistant Professor in History, School of Arts, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 

2004-  Associate Professor in History, Humanities and Social Studies Education, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 

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INFORMATION ON SOME SUBJECTS TAUGHT

• AAH 101 History as Film 
• AAH 102 Biography and History
• AAH 236 Australia and Asia 
• AAH 334 Heritage and Culture
• AAH 183 Film and Propaganda
  
  
  

MY TWO LATEST BOOKS ARE BOTH TO MARK THE 70^th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF SINGAPORE:

(1) THE SPORTSMEN OF CHANGI (Sydney: New South Books, 2012) For details see the publisher’s website:

http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/9781742233024.htm

If you want to comment about the book, you can go to my blog:

http://kevinblackburnsportsmenofchangi.wordpress.com/

(2) WAR MEMORY AND THE MAKING OF MODERN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012) For details see the publisher’s website

http://www.nus.edu.sg/nuspress/subjects/SS/978-9971-69-599-6.html

RESEARCH INTERESTS
The lecturer's research interests are in Australian history as well as Malaysian and Singapore history, pursuing the themes of war, memory and the nation, oral history, as well as public history. Recent publications are:

Blackburn, K., The Sportsmen of Changi, Sydney, New South, 2012) 296 pp.

Blackburn, K., and Karl Hack, War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012) 459 pp.

Blackburn, K., and Edmund Lim, “Singapore’s ‘Little Japan’ and its Japanese Cemetery” in Ed. Kevin YL Tan, Spaces of the Dead: A Case from the Living, Singapore: Ethos Books (2011): 180-203.

Blackburn, K., ‘War Memory and Nation-building in South East Asia’, South East Asia Research, SOAS University of London (March 2010), (18) 1: 5-31.

Blackburn, K., ‘Recalling War Trauma of the Pacific War and the Japanese Occupation in the Oral History of Malaysia and Singapore’, Oral History Review, Oxford University Press, USA (2009) (36) 2: 231-252.

Blackburn, K., ‘Nation Building, Identity and War Commemoration Spaces in Malaysia and Singapore’, Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World: Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region, Eds. Rahil Ismail, Ooi Giok Ling, and Brian Shaw, Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate (2009): 93-114.

Blackburn, K., and Hack, Karl, (eds) Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia, London, United Kingdom, Routledge, (2008) 310pp.

Blackburn, K., ‘History From Above: The Use of Oral History in Shaping Collective Memory in Singapore’ in Oral History and Public Memory, Eds. Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, Philadelphia, USA, Temple University Press (2008) pp31-46.

Blackburn, K., ‘Heritage Site, War Memorial and Tourist Stop: The Japanese Cemetery of Singapore, 1891-2005’, Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2007) (80) 1: 17-39.

Blackburn, K., ‘Four Corners Television History of Gallipoli and the Fall of Singapore’, Public History Review, Sydney, Australia (2007) (14): 97-114 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/phrj/

Blackburn, K., ‘Ex-Political Detainee Forum at Singapore in 2006’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, Melbourne, Australia (2007) 29: 56-59.

Blackburn, K., ‘Public Forum With Veterans and the Wartime Generation at Singapore in 2005’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, Melbourne, Australia (July 2006) 28 (2): 69-74.

Blackburn, K., ‘Colonial Armies as Postcolonial History: Commemoration and Memory of the Malay Regiment in Modern Singapore and Malaysia’, Colonial Armies in Southeast Asia, Eds. Karl Hack and Tobias Rettig, London, United Kingdom, Routledge (2006): 302-327.

Blackburn, K. and Chew, Ju Ern, Daniel. ‘Dalforce at the Fall of Singapore in 1942: An Overseas Chinese Heroic Legend’, Journal of the Chinese Overseas, Singapore (2005) (1): 2: 233-259.

Blackburn, K., ‘Reminiscence and War Trauma: Recalling the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, 1942-1945’, Oral History, Oral History Society, University of Essex, United Kingdom, (Autumn 2005) (33), 2: 91-98.

Blackburn, K., ‘The Chopsticks Memorial of Singapore: Creating National Unity by Remembering Common Suffering’ in Primary Social Studies: Exploring Pedagogy and Content Eds. Christine Lee & Chang Chew Hung, Singapore, Federal (2005), 128-135.

Blackburn, K., ‘Ageing, Reminiscence, and Memory: Recording the Oral History of the Japanese Occupation’, in Reflections and Interpretations: Oral History Centre 25th Anniversary Publication Ed. Daniel Chew, Singapore, Oral History Centre (2005), 139-149.

Blackburn, K. and Hack, Karl, Did Singapore Have to Fall? London, RoutledgeCurzon, 2004 (hardcover) 2005 (paperback) 300pp

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  FAMILY AND MARITAL STATUS

Married with two children.  (Chinatown, Kuala Terengganu, Chinese New Year 2008)

The family at Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur, Boxing Day 2010