Just stopped in to let people know that issue 55.1 of Australian Historical Studies is out now, including the State of the Field Review essay on Digital History I co-wrote with Dr Alana Jayne Piper
doi.org/10.1080/103146…
#history #twitterstorians #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHistory

NEW at #VIDAblog !

Dr Alana Jayne Piper explores the history of being married to more than one person at once in the Australian military 💍

Find out more about the shifting experiences of marriage, gender and sexuality in 20C Australia ⬇️
auswhn.com.au/blog/too-much-…

Great to see this research is put in the world!

Looking forward to reading, though I know it will be harrowing.

My article on #bigamy among the Australian military is now out #history #gender #marriage journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Now available as open access 'Citizen Social Science in the Classroom: Criminology Students' Perceptions of Prisoner Records' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Dr Alana Jayne Piper Nancy Cushing, BA Hons, PhD (History) #histcrim #criminology #history #historicalcriminology

Defense councils used gendered language to defend their clients in WA in colonial court cases in the 1800s, using language that emphasised ‘piety’ ‘modesty’ and ‘respectability’ in Caroline Ingrim’s paper in the Australian Women’s History Stream #OzHA2023

Criminalised survivors of #DomesticViolence need trauma informed responses. New research from The Sentencing Project sentencingproject.org/press-releases…

I am thrilled to announce that my second book, 'Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World' (aka. Alex's Phrenology Book), will be available from Cambridge University Press - Academic from 1 June. Nearly ten years in the making. Phew!
cambridge.org/core/books/sci…

Excited and a little bit nervous that Sophie Cooper and my article on methods for spatial-emotional entanglements in urban history is published (OA!). 🥳 and 🙌🏼 to us for a fun and inspiring collaboration! And 🤞🏼 you folks will like it.

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

So happy to be a joint recipient of a James Millar Main Prize for History Honours, but even happier to share this achievement with my brilliant supervisor, catherine kevin. I’m so lucky and grateful to be working with you again on PhD. Thank you to everyone who has supported me!

My aunt was institutionalised on account of severe panic attacks, anxiety & self harm tendencies. My father, who believed his sister when she said it happened only around her menstrual cycle, took her out of that place (against her husband's wishes) & found a gynecologist. 1/

My giant face is delighted to announce that I have been awarded a mid-career fellowship from the wonderful ISRF! Find out about my new project on critical family history & settler colonialism below. Please be in touch if it intersects with your work! isrf.org/fellows-projec…

On the website, Dr Alana Jayne Piper reviews Dr Meg Foster's Boundary Crossers: The Hidden History of Australia’s Other Bushrangers 📚

aph.org.au/2023/04/book-r…

For #WomensHistoryMonth , our #MakingPublicHistories event will explore the (long) history of violence against women in Australia:

Zora Dr Alana Jayne Piper Lisa Featherstone
Old Treasury Building History at Monash

Free and online, bookings required: historycouncilvic.org.au/national_disgr…

THREAD: Friends may have noticed I've been distracted recently. Now you know why: a few weeks ago Australian Catholic University banned the display of rainbow flags & symbols in the library. I've been working behind the scenes to contest this discriminatory move The Sydney Morning Herald
smh.com.au/national/nsw/u… 1/8

Come to the State Library of NSW on Thursday 20 April to help celebrate the release of my new edited book Women and Whitlam - featuring Sara Dowse, Ranuka Tandan and Patricia Amphlett in conversation. Bookings below - would love to see you there!
sl.nsw.gov.au/events/women-a…

The HuNI is employing a Technical Officer (based in Sydney). Consider applying and please retweet far and wide: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5145…