Science, Engineering & Medicine
Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors, 1854-2000, Scribe Publications, Carlton 2001, 423 pp. Best Print Publication, Victorian Community History Awards, 2002
Double Helix, Double Joy: David Danks the Father of Clinical Genetics in Australia, Melbourne University Publishing, Carlton, 2010.
Increasing Momentum: Engineering at the University of Melbourne 1861-2004, MUP, Carlton, 2004.
A Metallurgist Looks at Russia: Professor J. Neill Greenwood and the Soviet Union’, in S. Fitzpatrick & C. Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, MUP, 2008, pp. 78-101.
“Constructive Work”: The Engineering Profession in Australia and World War I’ in Kate Darian-Smith & James Waghorne (eds), The First World War, the Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939, MUP, Carlton, 2019.
‘Museums and Collections: Introduction’, in Ross Jones, James Waghorne & Marcia Langton, Dhoombak Goobgoowana: the University of Melbourne and Indigenous Australia, a History, Book II, Voice, MUP 2025. forthcoming
Vital Connections: Melbourne and its Board of Works 1891 to 1991, McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1991. (with Tony Dingle).
‘How can a museum collect dead things and remain alive?: Reflections on the History of Museum Victoria’, Circa: The Journal of Professional Historians, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 63-72. Awarded prize for best article in journal by the Australian Council of Professional Historians Associations Inc
‘Professor Frederick McCoy and the National Museum of Victoria, 1856-1899’, The Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 118, No. 5, October 2001. pp. 200-209.
Milestones in the history of the faculty of science University of Melbourne, Austehc, 2003.
‘Science was so much more exciting: Six Women in the Physical Sciences’, in F. Kelly (ed.), On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, The Text Media Publishing Company, 1993, pp. 105-132.
‘A Tale of Two Bridges: The Hawthorn Bridge Controversy 1929-1930’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 1, June 1992, pp. 31-44.
‘“Becoming Doctors” - an historical overview of women in medicine in twentieth century Australia’. Paper presented to ‘Women in Medicine’ Symposium, Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History, 8 March 2019.
‘Hardware and Health: The Danks family of Melbourne with special emphasis on Professor David Danks, ‘Father of Clinical Genetics in Australia’ and founder of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’, Lecture, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 14 July 2009.
‘“Useless and undesirable’?” Reclaiming the achievements of Australia’s first university-trained engineers’, paper presented to Engineers Australia, Engineering Heritage Branch, 21 April 2005.
‘From the Significant to the Indispensable: The Working Lives of Seventeen Figures in the history of the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works’, http://adb.anu.edu.au/essay/20, 2016.
‘Medicine’ in The Encyclopaedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0133b.htm, May 2014.
The Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne: An Historical Compendium (with Rachel Tropea) and accompanying booklet, 2003 at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/umfs/umfshome.htm
‘Nellie Fisher, 1907-1995, Industrial Chemist’, (with Ian Rae), http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fisher-nellie-ivy-jackie-29582
‘John Neill Greenwood, 1894-1981, professor of metallurgy’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 17, MUP, Carlton, 2007, pp. 457-8.
‘Richard Henry Walcott, 1870-1936, mineralogist and museum curator’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplement 1850-1980, MUP, Carlton, 2005, p. 394.
‘Sydney Rubbo, 1911-1969, professor of microbiology’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 16, MUP, 2002, pp. 143-4.
‘O. W. Tiegs’, 1897-1956, professor of zoology’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 16, MUP, Carlton, 2002, pp. 393-4.
‘Dora Lush’, 1919-1943, bacteriologist & scientific martyr, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 15, MUP, Carlton, 2000, pp. 137-8.
‘E. F. Borrie’, 1894-1968, civil engineer and town planner, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 13, MUP, Carlton, 1993 (with T. Dingle), pp. 223-4.
Geoffrey Dean Loftus-Hills (1910-1999) agricultural scientist, public servant and activist (ADB forthcoming)
””Here is a book which one judge described as sumptuous, “It is not only good to read,” the judge said, “but lovely to hold and look at”. The book is a history of Museum Victoria and the institutions which preceded it, from 1854 to the year 2000. Again quoting one judge: “In parts it is fascinating and in the other parts it is never dull. It is surprisingly informative, it is well-illustrated and well-written and its story has a popular appear which remains scholarly. In tackling the difficult task of writing this history, Carolyn Rasmussen wad aided by 46 specialist contributors, who justified her faith in them.” The three judges were unanimous in awarding this prize.
Citation; Winner of Best Print Publication, Victorian Community History Awards, 2002.