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Karen Downing is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University, where she completed her PhD in 2011. Her doctoral research led to the publication of the book "Restless Men: Masculinity in Robinson Crusoe, 1788-1849" by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. She has published work in notable journals including Men and Masculinities, History Australia, and the Australian Journal of Politics and History. Karen teaches the course HIST1214 Empires and Global History and supervises research students covering various topics in her field. Her research interests include late 18th to early 19th-century cultural history, particularly focusing on Britain and Australia, gender studies with a special emphasis on masculinities, histories of emotions, and historical theory and method.
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