Dr Prudence Flowers

Senior Lecturer

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place Social Science South
GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001
Qualifications

BA (Honours First Class), University of Melbourne, 2003

PhD (in History), University of Melbourne, 2009

Honours, awards and grants

2025-29: Australian Research Council Discovery Project CI for"Pacific Powers: Imperial Competition and Cooperation in Micronesia" ($618,568) 

2020: Flinders University COVID-19 Research Grant ($12,000)

2018: Catherine Helen Spence Memorial Scholarship ($25,000)

2012: Invited participant in the US Department of State’s International Visiting Leadership Program on ‘Security in Asia’

2011: Establishment Grant, Flinders Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences ($8,000)

2009: Overseas Conference Leave funding, Flinders Faculty of Social Sciences

2005: Gerald R. Ford Foundation Research Travel Grant, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library ($2,000)

2005: Lillian Ernestine Lobb Scholarship, University of Melbourne ($8,000)

2005: Postgraduate Overseas Research Experience Scholarship, School of Graduate Studies ($3,500)

2005: Travel for Research in Postgraduate Study, Faculty of Arts ($1,350)

2004-8: Australian Postgraduate Award

2003: Margaret Kiddle Prize for the best fourth year thesis in pure or combined History, University of Melbourne ($590)

2003: Jessie Mary Vasey Prize for best thesis in Women’s History, University of Melbourne ($1,000)

Teaching interests

My focus is U.S. history and I teach topics that run from the 1600s to the 2020s. I have an interest in social history (gender, race, class, religion) and also political history.

Topic coordinator
HIST7055 Historical Practice
HIST2020 Colonies, Empire, and Revolution: British North America 1500-1800
HIST2076 The Divided States of America, 1920-2000
HIST3009 Civil War Era America
HIST1703 Turning Points in World History
HIST3010 One Nation Under God? Religion in American Public Life
HIST3045 Guns and Butter: The United States in the Long 1960s
Expert for media contact
Abortion
History - American
Religion
United States of America
Abortion politics
Feminism
Religion in post-WWII America
US conservatism
US History
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Media expertise
  • Abortion
  • History - American
  • Religion
  • United States of America
Interests
  • Abortion politics
  • Feminism
  • Religion in post-WWII America
  • US conservatism
  • US History
Further information

Recent Invited Commentary

Abortion did not play as big a role in the US election as many anticipated. What might happen on this issue now?, The Conversation, November 2024

Abortion is back in the headlines in Australia. The debates in the United States tell us why, The Conversation, October 2024

Republicans once championed immigration in the US. Why has the party’s rhetoric – and public opinion – changed so dramatically?, The Conversation, October 2024 

George Washington didn’t have biological children. So, why is the criticism of Kamala Harris touching such a nerve?, The Conversation, July 2024

‘Kamala IS brat’: how the power of pop music has influenced 60 years of US elections, The Conversation, July 2024

6 in 10 Americans support abortion rights. This could be the advantage Kamala Harris needs against Donald Trump, The Conversation, July 2024

Will abortion be the issue that swings the 2024 US presidential election?, The Conversation, February 2024

How Ronald Reagan led the 1960 actors' strike - and then bcame an anti-union president, The Conversation, July 2023

After 49 years, outlawing abortion in the US won’t stop abortions - it will just make them dangerous, Sydney Morning Herald, May 2022

US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade - but for abortion opponents, this is just the beginning, The Conversation, June 2022

The end of Roe v. Wade would likely embolden global anti-abortion activists and politicians, The Conversation, May 2022

Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explained, The Conversation, December 2021

Playing Politics with the Court: The US Supreme Court, Abortion, and Republican Electoral Strategy, Australian Outlook, October 2020

What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?, The Conversation, September 2020

How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia, The Conversation, August 2019

US states pushing for Roe v Wade test case in Supreme Court, The Interpreter, July 2019