Associate Professor Catherine Kevin
Associate Professor
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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.
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.
PhD, University of Sydney
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
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.
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.
Best HDR Student Publication Award - MAR 2019
Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral thesis Excellence - MAY 2019
Wakefield Press Essay Prize - JUN 2019
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.
- Abortion
- Feminism
- History - Australian
- Pregnancy
- women's history, abortion, feminism, the film 'Jedda'
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