Dr Jane Carey
| ARC Postdoctoral Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 8088 |
| Email: | jcarey@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 328 Bridge |
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Research
Jane Carey is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department working on a project entitled Promoting Whiteness: Race Science and the Making of the Middle-Class Woman in Australia , 1890-1940. This research explores the significance of understandings of whiteness in Australian history, particularly as they relate to the women's movement and elite white women's identity. Her earlier PhD research examined Australian women and science. With Patricia Grimshaw she has also published several articles on early Australian women historians, particularly Margaret Kiddle and Kathleen Fitzpatrick. While the majority of her work has been in Australian history, she also has an interest in aspects of US history, such as the history of eugenics, and has been researching a history of white women at American World's Fairs from 1876-1940. This work focusses on constructions of race and gender in a transnational context. Her broader research interests include colonialism and postcolonial theory, history of science, constructions of 'race' and gender, exhibition history and transnational histories.
Publications
- 'Recreating British Womanhood: Ethel Osborne and the Construction of White Middle-class Femininity in Early Twentieth-Century Melbourne’, in Exploring the British World: Identity - Cultural Production – Institutions, ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey and Stuart Mcintyre, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2004, 21-39.
- 'Departing from Their Sphere? Australian Women in Science, 1880-1960’, in X. Pons (ed.), Departures, Melbourne University Press, 2002.
- 'Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women and Science, 1880-1960’, Limina, vol. 7, 2001.
- 'No Place for a Woman? Class, Modernity and Colonialism in the Gendering of Australian Science, 1885–1940’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no. 10, 2001.
- Patricia Grimshaw and Jane Carey, ‘Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and Australian History after the Second World War’, Gender and History, vo. 13, no.2, 2001.
- 'Women in the Museum’, in C. Rasmussen, A Museum for the People: A History of Museum Victoria and its Predecessors, 1854-2000, Scribe Publications, 2001.
Teaching
131-473 Critical Race Theory
Supervision
- Elizabeth Taylor (PhD), Lady Alice Northcote and the First Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907
- Claire Mclisky (PhD), White Identity in Nineteenth Century Australia
- Emily Harris (Hons), Representing the Other: Australian Identity and Narratives of Race in the 1866 Intercolonial Exhibition