Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster who has worked in politics, academia and the media. She is the author of Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans (MUP 2003, Text 2014) and The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text 2013), which won the 2014 Stella Prize and the NIB Literary Prize and was short-listed for the Prime Minister's, Queensland, NSW and WA Literary Awards, and long-listed for a Walkley. Clare researched, wrote and presented the acclaimed ABC1 documentary Utopia Girls and devised and co-wrote the ABC documentary series, The War That Changed Us.
Experience
2014–present
ARC Future Fellow, La Trobe University
2014–present
Principal Research Fellow, La Trobe University
Education
2002
University of Melbourne, PhD
1994
Monash University, MA Public History
Publications
2013
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, Text Publishing
2003
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans, MUP