Dr Yorick Smaal is an Australian historian and postdoctoral fellow at CEPS. He previously taught at the University of Queensland. Yorick has particular interests in sex and gender, war and society, and the law and criminal justice system. He is currently undertaking a study of child-sex crime in nineteenth and twentieth century Queensland, the first substantial longitudinal historical project of its kind in any Australian jurisdiction. Yorick is also working on two other projects: homosexuality and Army management; and models of sexual identity in Queensland in WWII.

Edited books:

Yorick Smaal and Graham Willett, eds, Gay and lesbian perspectives VII, Monash University Publishing, offered for contract by Monash University Publishing, forthcoming 2013.

Yorick Smaal and Graham Willett, eds, Out here: gay and lesbian perspectives VI, Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2011.

Edited journals:

Yorick Smaal and Lisa Featherstone, eds, The family in Australian history, special issue, Journal of Australian Studies, forthcoming 2013.

Yorick Smaal and Belinda McKay, eds, Queer Queensland, special issue, Queensland Review, vol. 14, no. 2 (2007).

Refereed journal articles:

Yorick Smaal, ‘“It’s one of those things no-one can explain”: medicine, homosexuality and the Queensland courts in World War 2’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, forthcoming

Yorick Smaal, ‘“The leniency problem”: a Queensland case study on sentencing male same-sex offences, 1939-1948’, in Rebecca Jennings and Lisa Featherstone, eds, Women’s History Review, forthcoming 2012.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Coding desire: The emergence of a homosexual subculture in Queensland, 1890-2001’, Queer Queensland, special issue, Queensland Review, vol 14, no 2 (2007): 13-28.

Scholarly book chapters:

Yorick Smaal, ‘Body politic to body beautiful: the changing role of the gay press in 1990s Australia’, in Lisa Featherstone, Rebecca Jennings, and Robert Reynolds, eds, Acts of love and lust: sexuality in Australia from 1945 to 2000, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Sex in the sixties’, in Julie Ustinoff and Shirleene Robinson, eds, Australia in the 1960s: people power and politics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Dad and Dave Come to Town: Mr Enwhistle and male homosexuality’, in James E. Bennett and Rebecca Beirne, eds, Making film and television histories: Australia and New Zealand, London; New York: I.B. Taurus, 2012, 215-19.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Friends and lovers: social networks and homosexual life in war-time Queensland’, in Yorick Smaal and Graham Willett, eds, Out here: gay and lesbian perspectives VI, Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2011, 168-87.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Revisiting Queensland’s war-time sex panics: moral alarm, male homosexuality and policing public space’, in Robyn Lincoln and Shirleene Robinson, eds, Crime over time: temporal perspectives on crime and punishment in Australia, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, 111-41.

Yorick Smaal and Clive Moore, ‘Homophobia in fin de siècle Queensland’, in Shirleene Robinson, ed., Homophobia: a history, Sydney: Federation, 2008, 63-85.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Homosexuality’, in Peter N. Stearns, ed., Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Modern World, vol. 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 30-3.

Conference papers:

Yorick Smaal, ‘Consent and capacity: boys, sex and the law in the British world’, 13 Dec, The 30th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Conference, Private Law Public Lives, Brisbane, 12-13 Dec 2011.

Yorick Smaal, ‘“This is surely a matter for the psychiatrist to decide”: homosexuality, medicine and the Australian army in WWII’, 7 Dec, The Pacific War 1941-45: Heritage, Legacies & Culture Conference, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 5-7 Dec 2011.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Making authentic homosexuals: war Stories and camp Australian soldiers in World War II New Guinea’, 21 Jul, Histories of Sexualities Conference, 21 Jul, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle (University of Newcastle and Macquarie University), 21-22 Jul 2011.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Keeping it in the family: incest on the frontier, 1861-1900’, 6 Jul, Australian History Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Launceston, 4-8 Jul 2011.

Yorick Smaal, ‘“It is one of those things nobody can explain”: male homosexuality, medical discourse and the Queensland courts, 1939-1948’, Centre for the History of European Discourse, University of Queensland, 26 Aug 2010.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Eliminate the “females”’: the Australian army and the ‘homosexual problem’ in New Guinea’, Sydney Sawyer Seminar: The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty, and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009, Session Six: Sexuality in the South Seas, University of Sydney, Sydney, 19 Mar 2010.

Yorick Smaal, ‘The transposition of sexual cultures in fin de siècle Queensland’, 5 Dec, Australian Homosexual Histories Conference 9, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 4-5 December 2009.

Yorick Smaal, ‘A network of “perverts”: interactions between homosexual men in World War Two Brisbane’, 30 Jun, AHA Regional Conference, University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, 30 Jun-3 Jul 2009.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Homosexuality, heterosexuality, and the Queensland criminal law, 1939-1948’, 3 Oct 2008, Let’s talk about Sex, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2-3 Oct 2008.

Yorick Smaal, ‘“Members of the service don’t like that sort of behaviour”: male homosexuality and the Australian armed forces in WWII’, 12 Jul, Australian Homosexual Histories Conference 8, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 12-13 Jul 2008.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Queensland’s emerging homosexual subculture and public space, 1890-1914’, Queer Space: Centres and Peripheries, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), 20-21 Feb 2007, available at http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/conferences/queer_space/proceedings/rural_smaal.pdf

Yorick Smaal, ‘More than mates? Queensland’s embryonic homosexual subculture, 1890-1914’, 1 Oct 2004, Australian Homosexual Histories Conference 6, University of Sydney, Sydney, 1-2 Oct 2004.

Other:

Yorick Smaal, ‘Prostitution 1880s-1900s’, in Peter Spearritt and Marion Stell, eds, Queensland Historical Atlas, available at, http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/prostitution-1880s-1900s, online from Dec 2010.

Yorick Smaal, ‘Queer pleasure: masculinity, male homosexuality and public space’, in Peter Spearritt and Marion Stell, eds, Queensland Historical Atlas, available at, http://www.qhatlas.com.au/content/queer-pleasure-masculinity-male-homosexuality-and-public-space, online from Dec 2010.

Yorick Smaal and Shirleene Robinson, historical consultants, Museum of Brisbane: History of GLBTQ Brisbane, Research and writing of didactic panels for histories component, Oct 2009-Mar 2010.

Yorick Smaal, historical consultant, Museum of Brisbane: ‘The big picture’, Research and writing of didactic panels for Craigston Apartments, Aug-Sep 2009.

Yorick Smaal, curator, Fryer Library, UQ: ‘Worth fighting for! Women in Queensland political life’, Conception, research, and writing for didactic panels; Library and online display, Oct 2004-May 2005.