Dr Ana Stevenson
| Name | Dr Ana Stevenson |
|---|---|
| Email Address | ana.stevenson@unisq.edu.au |
| Job Title | Senior Lecturer (Pathways) |
| Qualifications | BComm CQU, BA(Hons) Qld, GCertEd UNSW, MEd UNSW, PhD Qld |
| Department | UniSQ College (Pathways) |
| Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
| UniSQ College | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4858-1073 |
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Biography
Ana Stevenson is a historian whose research brings transnational perspectives to the history of feminism and social movements in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Her teaching experience spans academic, digital, and critical literacies and history, while her interdisciplinary research also encompasses on literary, media, and cultural studies and feminist theory. Ana was the co-founder of VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network (est. 2016), with Alana Piper, and the current Managing Editor with Paige Donaghy (The University of Melbourne). She is also the co-convener of a digital humanities initiative, The Suffrage Postcard Project (est. 2015), with Kristin Allukian (University of South Florida). In 2019, her journal article in the Pacific Historical Review was awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and the Covert Award in Mass Communication History by the History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Since 2021, Ana has been a Research Fellow of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Ana has taught academic and digital literacies, history, humanities, literature, and media studies at the foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels, and she invites expressions of interest from potential Graduate Research School Summer Research Scholarship and Higher Degree by Research (Master and PhD) applicants.
Employment
| Position | Organisation | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Lecturer (Pathways) | University of Southern Queensland | 2024 | |
| Lecturer (Pathways) | University of Southern Queensland | 2022 | 2023 |
| Research Fellow | International Studies Group, University of the Free State | 2021 | |
| Lecturer | Pathways Program, James Cook University | 2021 | 2021 |
| Casual Learning Advisor | The Learning Centre, James Cook University | 2020 | 2021 |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow | International Studies Group, University of the Free State | 2016 | 2020 |
| Visiting Scholar | Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh | 2014 | 2015 |
| Internship | The Conversation Media Group | 2015 | 2015 |
| Academic Tutor | St John's College within The University of Queensland | 2013 | 2014 |
| Sessional Lecturer and Tutor | The University of Queensland | 2011 | 2013 |
Expertise
History; Feminist Studies; Media Studies; Film studies; Academic Literacies; Pathways Education
Teaching
MDS1004 Humanities Fundamentals
TPP0145 Introduction to the Humanities
TPP0111 Communicating at University A
Fields of Research
- 430302. Australian history
- 430306. Digital history
- 430309. Gender history
- 430310. Global and world history
- 430312. Histories of race
- 430313. History of empires, imperialism and colonialism
- 430321. North American history
- 430322. Sub-Saharan African history
- 430323. Transnational history
- 440502. Feminist methodologies
- 440503. Feminist theory
- 440505. Intersectional studies
- 440509. Women's studies (incl. girls' studies)
- 470213. Postcolonial studies
- 470214. Screen and media culture
Professional Membership
| Professional Membership | Year |
|---|---|
| Australian Historical Association | |
| Australian Women's History Network | |
| South African Historical Society | |
| National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia |
BComm
CQU
2008
BA(Hons)
Qld
2009
GCertEd
UNSW
2021
MEd
UNSW
2023
PhD
Qld
2015
Current Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Commenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women on the Fringes: The Role of Coloured Women in the Anti-Apartheid Resistance Movement | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2022 |
| Love in the Time of Democracy: An Exploration of Adult Romance among Black People in South Africa | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2023 |
| Women's Leadership - The resonance between the modern and the ancient world | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Persecution, Vilification and Prosecution: The enduring impacts of the Bjelke-Petersen era for homosexual men in Australia. | Associate Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| The Australian News Media and its influence on the mainstream perceptions of gender based violence in Australia: The implications for Social Work | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2024 |
| Right to learn: women's education opportunities in nineteenth century Britain and Australia | Principal Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
| Futures Intelligence Theory (FIT), Philosophy, and Practice: Articulating, Applying, and Evaluating FIT Using a Quantum Framework | Principal Supervisor | Doctoral | 2020 |
Completed Supervisions
| Research Title | Supervisor Type | Level of Study | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kith and Kin? Southern Rhodesia's White Settlers and Britain, 1939-1979 | Associate | Doctoral | 2018 |
| Childcare in the Queensland Police Service: A Work-Based Study of the Logan Police District | Associate Supervisor | Masters | 2023 |
| Project title | Details | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Colonial Commemorative Landscapes in Australia | Centre for Heritage and Culture Small Research Grant, with Dr Claire Brennan (James Cook University) | 2024 |
| Archiving Social Movements and Building Historical Literacy for a Digital Age | Discovery Project 2023, Australian Research Council, with Professor Sharon Crozier-De Rosa (University of Wollongong), Emeritus Senior Professor Vera Mackie (University of Wollongong), and Professor Andrea Witcomb (Deakin University) | 2023 |
| Academic Blogging and the Public Humanities in the Twenty-First Century Knowledge Economy | UniSQ Research Capacity Building Grant | 2023 |
| NRF Rating | National Research Foundation, South Africa | 2022 |
| Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South Online Seminar Series | Global South Colloquium Fund, Third World Quarterly; Institute Français d’Afrique du Sud – Recherche; and Social History Society Grant for Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops, with Dr Kate Law (University of Nottingham) | 2020 |
| OAH Presidents’ Travel Fund for Emerging Historians | Organisation of American Historians | 2019 |
| Travel Bursary | International Federation for Research in Women’s History | 2018 |
| Travel Bursary | A Workshop in Transnational Feminism, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University | 2018 |
| Travel Bursary | Conjugal Slavery in War Project, University of the Witwatersrand and York University | 2018 |
| Global Scholars and Diversity Grant | The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations | 2016 |
| American Cultures Workshop | United States Studies Centre, The University of Sydney | 2015 |
| Research Grant – Fall Selection | Golden Key International Honours Society | 2014 |
| Postgraduate Travel Fellowship | Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association | 2014 |
| The Woman-Slave Analogy: Rhetorical Foundations in American Culture, 1830-1900 | New England Regional Fellowship Consortium | 2012 |
| Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Australian Women's History Network National Convenor | Australian Women's History Network | |
| 2022 | Y1: Promising Young Researcher | National Research Foundation, South Africa | |
| 2019 | Covert Award | History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication | |
| 2019 | W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize | Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association | |
| 2016 | Managing Editor and Founder | VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network | |
| 2013 | Lilith Editorial Collective | Lilith: A Feminist History Journal | |
| 2009 | Warden’s Medal for Academic Excellence | St John’s College within The University of Queensland |
| Item reviewed | Year |
|---|---|
| History Australia | |
| Rhetoric Society Quarterly | |
| Historia | |
| Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies | |
| Journal of Family History | |
| Lilith: A Feminist History Journal | |
| Australian Historical Studies | |
| The Explicator | |
| Feminist Media Studies | |
| Gender & History | |
| ANU Historical Journal II | |
| Women's History Review | |
| Cultural & Social History | |
| New York History | |
| Feral Feminisms | |
| History in the Making | |
| National Research Foundation, South Africa | |
| Southern Journal of Contemporary History | |
| Queensland Review | |
| Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy | |
| Contemporary British History | |
| Journal of University Learning & Teaching Practice | |
| Genealogy | |
| Frontiers in Sociology |