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.

See event information attached below for details.

Date & time

Wed 29 May 2013, 4–5.30pm

Location

McDonald Room, Menzies Library, ANU

Speakers

Dr Catherine Bishop, School of History, ANU

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