Alice Garner

Alice Garner is a researcher, teacher and performer currently based at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. Alice obtained her PhD in History from the University of Melbourne (2001) and has published books in French social history and Australian and US educational history, including A Shifting Shore: Locals, Outsiders and the Transformation of a French Fishing Town (1823-2000) (Cornell University Press, 2005), Academic Ambassadors, Pacific Allies: Australia, America and the Fulbright Program (Manchester University Press, 2019) and The Student Chronicles (MUP, 2006).

She taught Humanities and French (IB and Victorian curriculum) in the Victorian government education system and is an occasional host on the New Books in Education podcast. In recent years she has worked on a diverse array of projects including the history of trade union education, digital exclusion in public housing, and more recently on a biographical audio documentary project about peace activist and industry superannuation pioneer Mavis Robertson. In 2022 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Australian Studies Institute at the ANU, and in 2023, she is a National Library of Australia research fellow. She is an active oral historian and currently serves as the President of Oral History Victoria.