Erik Eklund

Erik Eklund is Professor and Head of School at Monash University's Gippsland Campus.

He is researching culture and identity in Australian mining and industrial towns with funding from an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. He has published in the fields of labour history, heritage and public history. He also has expertise in human research ethics, and qualititative research methods especially oral history interviews. He is also interested in the intersection between academic knowledge and the public sphere through the media, teaching, and community-university interaction.

His mongraph publications include–

The Making of a Nation: Selected Readings in Colonial Australia, (Tertiary Press, 2003) co-edited with Dr Martin Crotty.

Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla, (Melbourne University Press, 2002).