Summary
Fiona Kerr Paisley FASSA FAHA (born 1958) is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.[1]
Fiona Paisley | |
|---|---|
| Born | Fiona Kerr Paisley 1958 (age 65–66) Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Monash University (BA, DipEd) University of Melbourne (MEd) La Trobe University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Ideas have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920–1937 |
| Doctoral advisor | Marilyn Lake |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Women's history cultural history transnational history |
| Institutions | Griffith University |
Paisley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1958.[2] During her childhood she moved with her family between Scotland and Australia. She settled in Melbourne where she completed a BA and DipEd at Monash University and then worked as a high school teacher, before studying for a MEd at the University of Melbourne. She then undertook a PhD at La Trobe University, successfully submitting her thesis, "Ideas Have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920-1937", which was supervised by Marilyn Lake.[3]
Honours and recognition edit
Paisley won the 2014 Magarey Medal for Biography for The Lone Protestor.[4]
She was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2016[5] and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.[1]
Selected works edit
- Paisley, Fiona (2000), Loving protection? : Australian feminism and Aboriginal women's rights, 1919-1939, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-84919-6
- Paisley, Fiona (2009), Glamour in the Pacific : cultural internationalism and race politics in the women's Pan-Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-1-4416-2019-4
- Paisley, Fiona (2012), The lone protestor : A M Fernando in Australia and Europe, Aboriginal Studies Press, ISBN 978-1-922059-05-5
- Paisley, Fiona; Reid, Kirsty, eds. (2014), Critical perspectives on colonialism : writing the empire from below, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-53738-4
- Haggis, Jane; Midgley, Clare; Allen, Margaret; Paisley, Fiona (2017). Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, cross-cultural and transnational networks, 1860-1950. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-52748-2.
- Paisley, Fiona; Scully, Pamela (19 September 2019), Writing transnational history, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-4742-6398-6
References edit
- ^ a b "Fellows: Fiona Paisley". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Paisley, Fiona". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Harrison, Sharon M. "Paisley, Fiona". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Magarey Medal – Previous Winners". The Australian Historical Association. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Fiona Paisley FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
External links edit
- The story of AM Fernando — Fiona Paisley talks to Phillip Adams about her book