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Dr Catherine Dewhirst

Dr Catherine Dewhirst
Name Catherine Dewhirst
Position Senior Lecturer (History)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q206
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1046
Extension 1046
Email
Qualifications DipCivFr Paris-Sorbonne , BA UNSW , GDipEd UNSW , MA UNSW , PhD QUT
Languages French (non accredited translator)
Italian (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-0075
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Biography

Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern Queensland, where she teaches courses on the histories of Europe, global interrelations, women's experiences and 'voices', racism and discrimination in Australia, and historiography. She is a member of UniSQ's Centre for Heritage and Culture, Institute for Resilient Regions. She has supervised the dissertations of 11 Honours students on a diverse range of topics and the research projects one Master of Arts student and seven PhD students (three as principal/co-principal supervisor) to successful completion. At present the research projects of three PhD students and two Master of Research students are under her supervision as principal supervisor, as well as one Honours student's dissertation. With a research background in women's and migration histories, Catherine has published on the effects of the politics of whiteness and racism on Italian migrant communities, the Italian-migrant periodical press, family histories and memories, and women's social, cultural and political experiences. Her most recent publications include two co-edited books (Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2021) which explore Australia's migrant and minority voices through historic ethnic newspapers and other media ventures in Australia. She is currently working on a collaborative research project that engages with second-generation Italian migrants whose parents were interned in Australia between 1940 and 1945. She is also writing a book on the entangled relationship between Liberal Italy and editors of the Italian migrant press from four nations, which contributed to Italy's colonisation of migrant communities worldwide from the age of imperialism to World War II.

Research Career


  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) ( 210307 )
  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Biography ( 430303 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )

Australian and Italian migration histories
Imperial, diaspora and transnational histories
Migrant newspapers and community-building
European and world histories
Women's history / gender relations
Historiography
Family history / biography


Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS)
Australian Historical Association (AHA)
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS)
Dante Alighieri Society, Brisbane
International Australian Studies Association (InASA)


Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Management Committee Queensland Representative (2008-2022):
http://www.acis.org.au/
Australian Historical Association (AHA) 2019 Conference Chief Convenor
https://www.theaha.org.au/


  • Institute for Resilient Regions (IRR)
  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

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: Women's European History


26 Years


4 Years


Committee member, Research Committee, School of Humanities and Communication
Panel member, USQ Bellmaine French Appreciation Travelling Scholarship, School of Humanities and Communication
Head of History, Australian Historical Association
Co-founder and Chair of panel, ‘The Jo-Anne Duggan Prize’, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies

Supervision


  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) ( 210307 )
  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Biography ( 430303 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )