Ana Stevenson is a Lecturer (Pathways) in USQ College at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a Research Associate 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 the development of feminist rhetoric in social movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Her first book, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), recently appeared with the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. With Dr Alana Piper (University of Technology Sydney), she co-edited Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2019). The Suffrage Postcard Project is a digital humanities initiative she has developed with Dr Kristin Allukian (University of South Florida).
Experience
2022–present
Lecturer, USQ College, University of Southern Queensland
2021–present
Research Associate, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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
2020
University of New South Wales, Graduate Certificate in 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
2018
One Hundred Years of Campaign Imagery: From Woman Suffrage Postcards to Hillary Clinton Memes, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election
2018
Imagining Women’s Suffrage: Frontier Landscapes and the Transnational Print Culture of Australia, New Zealand and the United States, Pacific Historical Review
2018
'Cast Off the Shackles of Yesterday': Women’s Suffrage in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
2018
The Gender-Apartheid Analogy in the Transnational Feminist Imaginary: Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1972-2002, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies
2018
Harriet Clisby’s ‘Sketches of Australia’: Travel Writing and Colonial Refigurations in Boston’s Woman’s Journal, Women's History Review
2017
The ‘Great Doctrine of Human Rights’: Articulation and Authentication in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Antislavery and Women’s Rights Movements, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development
2017
'Bloomers' and the British World: Dress Reform in Transatlantic and Antipodean Print Culture, 1851-1950, Cultural & Social History
2015
'Sitting in Cages': Imagining Victorian Women in Neo-Victorian Film Musicals, Victorianomania: Reimagining, Refashioning, and Rewriting Victorian Literature and Culture
2014
‘Symbols of Our Slavery’: The Rhetoric of Dress Reform in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
2013
Making Gender Divisive: ‘Post-Feminism,’ Sexism and Media Representations of Julia Gillard, Burgmann Journal
Grants and Contracts
2012
Role:
Short-Term Fellow
Funding Source:
New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
Professional Memberships
Australian Historical Association
Australia New Zealand American Studies Association