Clare Wright

Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University

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

Grants and Contracts

2004

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Role:

APD

Funding Source:

Australian Research Council

Professional Memberships

Australian Historical Association
Professional Historians Association (Vic)

Research Areas

Historical Studies (2103)