News
Professor Fiona Jenkins
International Women's Day Profile Please summarise your career journey and explain what you’re currently working on.“I was first inspired with a sense of philosophy’s relevance through a course on feminist philosophy. Although, I ended up studying Nietzsche for my doctorate at Oxford, I kept…
Professor Bronwyn Parry
International Women's Day Please summarise your career journey and explain what you’re currently working on.“I guess I've had an unconventional career in some ways. I grew up in Queensland, moved to what’s now known as Canberra College and then enrolled in university at the ANU.After my first…
Associate Professor Julieanne Lamond
International Women's Day Please summarise your career journey and explain what you’re currently working on.I finished my honours in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney and worked in the media (for ABC radio) and politics (as a policy advisor for a federal senator) before…
Professor Lorana Bartels
International Women's Day Please summarise your career journey and explain what you’re currently working on.“I have had a bit of a non-traditional career path. I worked in State and Commonwealth government for over a decade, in research and policy roles, as a criminal lawyer and criminologist…
Classics students win ASCS Translation Prize
While the languages may be bronze and iron age, it was all gold for second year students Cecilia Arsenovic and James Hughes from the Centre for Classical Studies. Competing in the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) translation competition, Arsenovic took home the prize for Latin…
Here’s three history-making Australian women you may not have heard of but should know
They have helped shape Australia’s feminist history, but do you know their names and stories?But despite leaving an incredible mark on both the development of feminism in Australia and our nation, Bessie Rischbieth, Olive Zakharov and Ruby Hammond aren’t widely known household names. One ANU…
CASS alumna, Shannyn Palmer receives Prime Ministers Literary Award for Unmaking Angas Downs
Shannyn Palmer PhD ‘17, a distinguished alumna of the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) at the Australian National University (ANU), is the recipient of the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian History for her book, Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central…