Catherine Gay

Catherine Gay is a Hansen PhD Scholar in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research looks to the lives of First Nations and settler girls in nineteenth-century Australia with a focus on the colony of Victoria. In 2021 she was awarded a National Library of Australia Summer Scholarship and in she received the 2022 Australian Historical Association Jill Roe Prize. Catherine is a Research Associate at Museums Victoria, where she curated ‘Girlhood’, now on display at the Voices Through Time gallery at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne.