Dr Hannah Viney recently completed her PhD at Monash University, researching Australian women’s anti-nuclear activism from 1945 to the 1970s. Her expertise is in contemporary Australian history, and her recent work has stretched from Melbourne’s penal history in the late nineteenth century to women’s political activism in the mid-twentieth century. Hannah is interested in women’s political history, and how Australian women engaged in the tumultuous political climate of the Cold War. She is particularly fascinated by expressions of women’s political interests in the decades before the Second Wave feminist movement publicly challenged gender expectations in the 1970s.
Experience
2021–present
Information Officer, Old Treasury Building Museum
2022–present
Research Assistant, Monash University
Education
2023
Monash University, PhD
Publications
2022
“Temper Discipline with Kindness”: Female Officers at the Old Melbourne Gaol and City Watch House, 1845–1935, Labour History
2022
“Actual Political Affiliations Are of Secondary Importance”: Communism and Women's Entangled Loyalties in the Australian Anti-Nuclear Movement, 1945–65, Australian Journal of Politics and History
2020
“Women are born diplomats”: Women, Politics and the Cold War in the Australian Women’s Weekly, 1950–1959, Journal of Australian Studies