Professor Jon Stratton

Jon Stratton is an adjunct professor in UniSA Creative.  Jon has worked at universities in the UK and Australia including Essex University, Griffith University, University of Queensland, the Northern Territory University, Murdoch University and Curtin University.  In 1998 Jon held a Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Iowa in the USA and later that same year was a Research Scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Between 1995 and 1997 Jon and Professor Ien Ang held an ARC Large Grant working on ‘Reimagining Asians in Multicultural Australia’.  Between 2012 and 2014 Jon was the Chief Investigator on an ARC funded Discovery Grant on which he worked with Professor Mark Balnaves and Professor Niall Lucy.  The project was entitled ‘A cultural history of West Australian popular music, 1945 to 2010’.  Over various years in the 1990s and 2000s Jon was a regular weekly commentator on Perth ABC radio discussing topics from the point of view of Cultural Studies.  Jon has also been quoted in many newspapers and magazines including the Adelaide Advertiser, The Sydney Morning Herald, the West Australian, and the Australian edition of Rolling Stone. 

Having started out as a sociologist, Jon has taught and researched widely across Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Popular Music Studies.  Jon’s publications span Cultural Studies, Popular Music Studies, Jewish Studies, Australian Studies, Media Studies, and race and multiculturalism.  Jon is the sole author of eleven books including When Music Migrates: Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines 1945-2010, Ashgate, 2014, Uncertain Lives: Culture, Race and Neoliberalism in Australia, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, Coming Out Jewish: Constructing Ambivalent Identities, Routledge, 2000, Race Daze: Australia in Identity Crisis, Pluto Australia, 1998, and The Desirable Body: Cultural Fetishism and the Erotics of Consumption, Manchester University Press, 1996.  Jon has coedited three books, the most recent being with Jon Dale and with input from Tony Mitchell An Anthology of Australian Albums, Bloomsbury, 2020. Jon has also coedited three journal issues two in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and one in Thesis Eleven.  Jon has published over eighty book chapters, some being republications of articles in edited collections, and well over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. Since 2020 Jon has been Senior Ecitor on the book series, 33 1/3 Oceania, published by Bloomsbury.