Women on the move: Gender, money-making and mobility in mid-nineteenth century Australasia
School of History Seminar Series
Dr Catherine Bishop, School of History, ANU
Catherine Bishop graduated from ANU in December 2012 with a PhD in History. Her thesis, 'Commerce Was a Woman: Women in Business in Colonial Sydney and Wellington' won the 2012 ANU Gender Institute PhD Thesis Prize for Excellence in Gender Research. Currently teaching in the School of History at ANU, Catherine has just been appointed as Research Officer for the History Research Initiative at the University of Western Sydney. She is on the editorial collective of Lilith and recently co-convened the successful inaugural Lilith conference. She has published in Australian colonial, gender and labour history as well as about Australian missionaries.
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