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DCMS://STAFF/Susie_Khamis
(BA – Macquarie, B. Media Hons – Macquarie, PhD – Macquarie)

Telephone: (612) 9850-4099
Room: W6A 801
E-mail:susie.khamsi@scmp.mq.edu.au

Academic Profile

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Susie Khamis completed a doctorate on the cultural logic of branding in 2007 and has published widely on issues to do with contemporary branding trends. Most recently, she has focused on how Australia's changing demography has affected representations of Australia in advertising, both locally and abroad. Central to this research is an interest in the politics and implications of image management.

Summary CV

Research Interests

Consumerism in contemporary Australian culture; Australian advertising history; branding; culinary tourism; marketing and multiculturalism.

Principal Publications

Khamis, S (forthcoming) ‘It only takes a jiffy to make: Nestlé, Australia and the convenience of instant coffee’, Food, Culture & Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research

— (forthcoming) ‘Thrift, Sacrifice and Bushells tea: one brand’s strategy in the early 1930s’, History Australia

— (2007) ‘Gourmet and Green: the branding of King Island’, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures, volume 1, number 2

— (2006) 'A Taste for Tea: How tea travelled to (and through) Australian Culture', Australian Cultural History, volume 24

— (2006) 'Island dreams and the cultural politics of small island cuisine' in Johnson, H (ed), Refereed Papers from the 2nd International Small Island Cultures Conference, Sydney: Small Island Cultures Research Initiative

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