Dr Prudence Flowers
Senior Lecturer
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
BA (Honours First Class), University of Melbourne, 2003
PhD (in History), University of Melbourne, 2009
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)
My focus is U.S. history and I teach topics that run from the 1600s to the 1990s. I have an interest in social history (gender, race, class, religion) and also political history.
- Abortion
- History - American
- Religion
- United States of America
- Abortion politics in the United States
- Feminism
- Late termination of pregnancy
- President Ronald Reagan
- Religion in post-WWII America
- US History
Selected Media Appearances
Radio interview on the Supreme Court and abortion rights, Radio Adelaide Breakfast program, September 2020
Imagining a conservative Supreme Court, The Signal podcast – ABC, September 2020
New allegations of mass hysterectomies inside US detention centres are the ‘echoes of an awful past, SBS News online, September 2020
'American tactics have been brought to Australia as the abortion debate continues to divide,' The Advertiser, August 2019
Radio interview on 'What is feminism?', Mornings with David Bevan, ABC Adelaide, June 2019
Radio interview on Alabama and US abortion politics, Drive with Richard Glover (Sydney), May 2019
Alabama's abortion law is just the beginning — activists want to overturn Roe v Wade, ABC News online, May 2019
Television interview about US abortion law and politics, The Drum, May 2019
Alabama's State Senate passes near-total ban on abortion, RN Drive, May 2019
'Late-term abortion help,' The Advertiser, November 2018
Television interview with Simon Royal on cults and California in the 1960s and 1970s, ABC News (SA), October 2017
Book reviews
Prudence Flowers reviews 'Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition' by W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Australian Book Review, March 2019
Invited Commentary
Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explained, The Conversation, December 2021
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, Lowy Institute, July 2019
The Resilience of Roe: US Abortion Bans and the 2020 Election, Australian Outlook, June 2019
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