Associate Professor Catherine Kevin

Associate Professor

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Research expertise

Catherine has written on the histories of pregnancy, reproductive rights, feminism, migration and race relations. She is writing a history of the making of the film 'Jedda' (Dir. Chauvel, 1955) in Ngunnawal country and, with Zora Simic and Ann Curthoys is researching the history of domestic violence in Australia since 1788.

Research expertise

+61 8 82015553

catherine.kevin@flinders.edu.au

Social Sciences South (317)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Catherine received her PhD in History from Sydney University in 2004. After holding positions at SBS Television and the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, University of London, she came to the Flinders History Department in 2007.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) First Class, University of Sydney
PhD, University of Sydney

Key responsibilities

Lecturer in Australian History

Research Higher Degrees coordinator for History, Sociology, NILs and Women's Studies

Co-editor of History Australia

Editorial board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography

Research expertise

Australian cultural history

Australian studies/history

Gender Studies

Historical studies

Research interests

The histories of pregnancy and miscarriage in Australia, reproductive politics, Australian feminism and postcolonial perspectives on Australian film. Catherine is in the early stages of a project on the history of domestic violence since 1788 with Zora Simic and Ann Curthoys, and she is currently working on a book called Relocating Jedda in Ngunnawal Country.

Teaching interests

Catherine co-led an Office of Teaching and Learning (OLT) - funded project called 'The Power of Things' with the director of the Flinders University Art Museum, Fiona Salmon in 2016. As a result, she now teaches Maps and Dreams: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australian History in the Museum where she utilises the extensive Indigenous art collection.

In 2015-17 Catherine was the the academic co-chair (with Anthony Langlois) of the annual Peace and Global Citizenship program for Masters and Undergraduate level student in Hiroshima. This is the initiative of the International Network of Universities.

Topic coordinator

HIST1203 A Brief History of Australia

HIST1803 'The Lucky Country'? Australia and the World since 1939

HIST2062 Body Politics in Australian History

HIST2063 Memory and the Politics of Difference: Race, Sex and Belonging

HIST7006 Making History, current directions in historiography

HIST2015 Maps and Dreams: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australian History

Topic lecturer

WMST3012 Performing Masculinities, Australian Histories of Contest and Change

Supervisory interests

Feminism

Film

Immigration and race relations in Australia

Reproductive politics

The history of the body

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Women’s organisations in early twentieth century Australia (1), The making of a 'red lamp' district in Adelaide between the wars (1)

Associate supervisor: Memories of mixed Turkish-Greek communities in Cyprus (1), Japanese fashion as soft power (1), Feminism and craft (1), The movement to decriminalise abortion in Australia since 2008 (1), An oral history of GLBT politics in South Australia (1), A history of Mormonism in the Pacific (1)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Shifting Irish-Australian loyalties in the Victorian and South Australian Irish-Catholic press (1), Domestic service in Argentina (1), Feminist memory and archival practices (1)

Associate supervisor: The voice of the child in child death reviews (1), Italian migration and food in Australia (1), Cornish fatalism and compulsory vaccination (1)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Ella Stewart-Peters

PhD - SEP 2018

Petra Mosmann

PhD - DEC 2018

Publications

Professional engagement

Catherine is a founding member of South Australian Abortion Action Coalition and convenor of the SAAAC media group.

Catherine is on the national Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and is is the Chair of the South Australian Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

She is SA representative for the Australian Women's History Network.

Catherine was a co-editor (with Melanie Oppenheimer and Matthew Fitzpatrick) of History Australia, 2016-18

Catherine appeared in a 2014 episode of the SBS series Who Do You Think You Are?

She is on the editorial boards of Studies in Australasian Cinema and Lilith, a Feminist History Journal.

Expert for media contact

Abortion

Feminism

History - Australian

Pregnancy

women's history, abortion, feminism, the film 'Jedda'

Available for contact via

+61 8 82015553