My Expertise
I am an expert in areas of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian history, specifically in the fields of domestic violence, marriage and divorce, feminist and women's history, colonial women's literature and cultural history, and feminist legal history. I have particular expertise in historicising coercive control, financial abuse, marital rape, and reproductive coercion and abuse, as well as in colonial authors Barbara Baynton, Ada Cambridge, Leontine Cooper, Louisa Lawson, and Rosa Praed.
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Fields of Research (FoR)
Gender history, Australian history, Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature), Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship)SEO tags
Biography
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW, Sydney. My research sits at the intersections of gender history, cultural history, social history, literary history, and feminist legal history, and has been published in leading academic journals including History Australia, Australian Feminist Studies and Women’s History Review. My award-winning doctoral research, completed at the Australian...view more
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW, Sydney. My research sits at the intersections of gender history, cultural history, social history, literary history, and feminist legal history, and has been published in leading academic journals including History Australia, Australian Feminist Studies and Women’s History Review. My award-winning doctoral research, completed at the Australian National University, was a social and cultural history of domestic violence in Australia between 1880 and 1914, and I am now working on the history of coercive control in Australia between 1890 and 1975.
My Grants
2024: National Library of Australia Seymour Scholarship ($6,000)
My Qualifications
PhD in History (The Australian National University)
My Awards
2025: Australian Historical Studies Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize
2025: History Council of New South Wales Jill Roe Regional History Award
2024: Australian Historical Association Jill Roe Prize
2023: History Council of New South Wales Max Kelly Award
My Engagement
In the media
- The Conversation - ‘A prisoner on the rack’ – how 19th-century Australian women wrote about marital rape
Membership
- Australian Historical Assocation
- Australian Women's History Network
- Australia & New Zealand Historical Criminology Network
- Australia & New Zealand Law & History Society
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Lilith: A Feminist History Journal Editorial Board (2022-2026)