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Ana Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer (Pathways) in UniSQ College at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a Research Fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research interests include women’s history, transnational women’s suffrage, and feminist media studies from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Her first book, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), appeared with the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. With Dr Alana Piper, she co-edited Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2019). The Suffrage Postcard Project is a digital humanities initiative she co-convenes with Dr Kristin Allukian: http://thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net/.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Senior Lecturer, UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland
  • 2021–present
    Research Associate, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
  • 2022–2023
    Lecturer, UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland
  • 2021–2021
    Lecturer, Pathways Program, James Cook University
  • 2016–2020
    Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
  • 2014–2015
    Visiting Scholar, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2011–2013
    Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, The University of Queensland

Education

  • 2022 
    University of New South Wales, Master of Education
  • 2015 
    The University of Queensland, Doctor of Philosophy
  • 2009 
    The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), First Class
  • 2008 
    Central Queensland Univeristy, Bachelor of Communication with Distinction

Publications

  • 2019
    The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2019
    Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Monash University Publishing

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Historical Association
  • Australia New Zealand American Studies Association
  • Australian Women's History Network
  • National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA)