Dr Catherine Dewhirst
Name | Dr Catherine Dewhirst |
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Email Address | catherine.dewhirst@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Senior Lecturer (History) |
Qualifications | DipCivFr Paris-Sorbonne, BA UNSW, GDipEd UNSW, MA UNSW, PhD QUT |
Department | School of Humanities and Communication |
Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-0075 |
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Biography
Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Communication and member of the Centre for Heritage and Culture, Institute for Resilient Regions, at UniSQ. She served as Queensland representative on the Management Committee of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (2009-2022) and was Chief Convenor of the 2019 Australian Historical Association conference at UniSQ. Her research engages with cultural, political, social and entangled histories, and historiography. She has specialised in Italian migration and family history, women’s life-histories and autobiographical accounts, and the effects of racism and activism through a transnational lens. Catherine has been awarded both early-career and research publication awards and funding, and has been an invited symposia and guest speaker in Australia and France. Her publications focus on migrant communities, the minority periodical press, family histories, and memories and life-narratives with an aim to retrieving the 'voices' and experiences of those silenced.
Past research projects include internal and external grants for Queensland’s sesquicentenary celebrations of Italian migrant contributions (UniSQ; Griffith University; Sunshine Coast University), and the history of Australia’s migrant and minority community press (UniSQ; The Ian Potter Foundation). Catherine is currently investigating the neglected histories within the material culture of Australia’s multicultural and foreign-language community newspapers for re-situating their significance in Australia’s cultural heritage. She is also writing on the entangled relationship between Liberal Italy and editors of the Italian-migrant press, and the contested histories contributing to the colonisation of Italian migrant communities worldwide from the age of imperialism to the 1920s.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Senior Lecturer in History | University of Southern Queensland | 2006 | 2023 |
Expertise
Migration histories
Women's histories
History of racism and activism
Teaching
HIS1004 Global History, 1500-1900
HIS2001 Sovereignty, Equality and Racism in Australia's Past
HIS2006 Revolutions and the People's Voice
HIS3004 Interpreting the Past
HIS8005 Duties to Rights: European Women's History
Fields of Research
- 430302. Australian history
- 430303. Biography
- 430308. European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
- 430309. Gender history
- 430310. Global and world history
- 430312. Histories of race
- 430313. History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
- 430319. Migration history
- 430323. Transnational history
- 430399. Historical studies not elsewhere classified
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Australian Historical Association | |
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies | |
International Australian Studies Association | |
Dante Alighieri Society, Brisbane |
Current Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
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Could the resettlement and migration of people in the prime of their socioeconomic life | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
Effects of the Scottish Highland Clearances on migrant dispersion in Australia in the 18th and 19th Century, and what this means for cultural diversity in contemporary society | Principal Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
The Governors' Wives - Queensland, 1859 to 1901 | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
Indigenous Roots, Greek Migrants: Commercialisation of Australia's Macadamia | Principal Supervisor | Masters | 2022 |
A Historical Analysis of Life-Writings of Anglo-Allied Professional Nurses on the Western Front | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Agency and Activism: The Transnational Network of the Feminist Press in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, 1900-1939 | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2019 |
Politics of Memory: Understanding Modern Day Iran | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Completed Supervisions
Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
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Reasoning Madness: Women, the Public Sphere, and the Mind Doctors in France, 1674–1838 | Principal | Masters | 2022 |
Private Men, Public Intellectuals: British Historians and Changing Perceptions of Interwar Germany | Associate | Doctoral | 2016 |
‘Vi er alle Australiere’: The migrant newspaper Norden and its promotion of pan-Scandinavian unity within Australia, 1896-1940 | Principal | Doctoral | 2015 |
Negotiating Custom and Being a Woman – A History of I-Kiribati Women and their Engagement with Feminisms | Associate | Doctoral | 2013 |
Changing Experiences at Banyo Seminary: Students’ Oral Reflections and Recollections of Banyo Seminary (1941-2001) | Associate | Doctoral | 2011 |
The Imperial woman's colonising mission: Making space in three colonial crises | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2021 |
Queen Anne's Upbringing, Education, and Their Impact On Her Rein and Influence Over The Church of England | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2018 |
Terrorist choice and the media | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2017 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2017 | ‘Voices of the Australian Migrant and Minority Press: Intercultural, Transnational and Diasporic Contexts’ | The Ian Potter Foundation | |
2022 | Queensland Representative, Management Committee, 2009-2022 | Australasian Centre for Italian Studies |