Professor Pat Grimshaw
| Professorial Fellow | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 3666 |
| Email: | p.grimshaw@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 533 East History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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| Biography | |
| Research | |
| Publications | |
| Supervision | |
Biography
Patricia Grimshaw undertook her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her PhD in the History Department at the University of Melbourne where she graduated in 1987. She commenced work in this Department as a research assistant to Professor Greg Dening in 1973 and was appointed to a lectureship in 1977. She was subsequently promoted to senior lecturer and Associate Professor/Reader and in 1993 was appointed to the Max Crawford Chair of History. She served as Head of the History Department for two terms between 1992 and 2002, as Acting Head of Gender Studies and as Deputy Dean of the Arts Faculty for a five-year period.
Her professional activities have included: President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History; Deputy Editor of the Women’s Historical Review; Book Editor and Chair of the Board, Australian Historical Studies; membership of the Boards of Gender and History, the Journal of Women’s History, Australian Feminist Studies, the Pacific History Review and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History; President of the Oral History Association of Victoria; President of the Australian Network for Research in Women’s History; membership of the Board of the National Federation of Australian Women.
Research
Patricia Grimshaw’s major areas of research have included Pacific history, the history of the United States West, and women’s and family history in Australia. Her books include Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand, 1987 [1972] and Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Hawaii, 1989. Among her co-authored publications is Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Societies, 2003, and among her co-edited, Women’s Rights and Human Rights, 2001. She is currently completing two books. One focuses on gender and race in the colonies of Australasia. A second, jointly written with Shurlee Swain and Ellen Warne, is a history of working mothers in Australia since 1880. This will be called Balancing Acts: Women, Breadwinning and Childcare in Twentieth Century Australia and is based on archival and interview materials. Her most recent project, supported by an ARC grant with Dr Andrew Brown-May, is a history of missions in Australia from 1820 to 1940.
Selected Publications
Books
- P. Grimshaw, Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth Century Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1989
- P. Grimshaw, Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland University Press, revised edition 1987 [1972]
Edited Books and Edited Journals
- K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw and S. Macintyre (eds), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007
- P. Grimshaw and R. McGregor (eds), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples’, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing. (Republished in hard copy by Melbourne University Monographs, 2007)
- P. Grimshaw, M. Lake, A. McGrath and M. Quartly, Creating a Nation, Perth: API Network, 2006 (revised edition)
- P. Grimshaw, J. Murphy and B. Probert (eds), Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change, Circa Press, Melbourne, 2005
- K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw, K. Lindsey and S. Macintyre eds., Exploring the British World, RMIT E-Publishing, Melbourne, 2004
- J. Evans, P. Grimshaw, D. Philips and S. Swain, Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights: Indigenous Peoples in British Settler Societies, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2003, pp198
- P. Grimshaw, E. Nelson and S. Smith, Letters from Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867 to 1926, History Department Monographs, Melbourne, 2002
- P. Grimshaw, K. Holmes and M. Lake, Women’s Rights and Human Rights: International Perspectives (eds), Palgrave, London, 2001
- J. Carey and P. Grimshaw, Women Historians and Women’s History: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and the Melbourne History School, University of Melbourne (History of the University Unit), Melbourne, 2001
Journal articles
- Patricia Grimshaw and Ann Standish, ‘Making Tasmania Home: Louisa Meredith’s Colonizing Prose’, Frontiers, vol. 28, nos. 1 and 2, June 2007
- P. Grimshaw, N. Musgrove and S. Swain, ‘The Australian Labour Movement, the Eight Hour Day and Working Mothers in the United Nations Decade for Women, 1975 to 1985’, Special Edition of Labour History 2007
- P. Grimshaw and A. Standish, ‘Making Tasmania Home: Louisa Meredith’s Colonizing Prose’, Frontiers, July 2007
- P. Grimshaw and B. Brookes, ‘Indigenous Women, Social Activism and Assimilation Policies: New Zealand and Victoria, Australia, in the 1950s and 1960s’, Journal of Australasian Studies (2007)
- P. Grimshaw, N. Musgrove and S. Swain, ‘The Australian Labour Movement, the Eight Hour Day and Working Mothers in the United Nations’ Decade for Women, 1975 to 1985’, Labour History (2007)
- P. Grimshaw and A. Standish, ‘Making Tasmania Home: Louisa Meredith’s Colonizing Prose’, Frontiers (forthcoming 2007)
- S. Swain, E. Warne and P. Grimshaw, ‘Constructing the Working Mother: Australian Perspectives’ 1920 to 1970’, Hecate, vol.31, no.2, 2005, pp.18-30
- P. Grimshaw, 'Comparative Perspectives on White and Indigenous Women's Political Citizenship in Queensland: The 1905 Act to Amend the Elections Acts, 1885 to 1899', Queensland Review, vol. 12 no. 2, 2005, pp. 9-22
- P. Grimshaw, 'Keeping the Records Safe', Lilith, no. 14, November 2005, pp14-19
- P. Grimshaw, ‘The Fabrication of a Benign Colonisation? Keith Windschuttle on History’, Australian Historical Studies, no. 123, April 2004, pp 122-9
- P.Grimshaw and S.Low, ‘Looking Again at the Women’s Vote in Tasmania’, Tasmanian Historical Studies, vol. 9, 2004, pp. 21-33
Chapters in Scholarly Collections:
- P. Grimshaw and J. Carey, ‘Modern Australia’, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Women in World History, (2007)
- P. Grimshaw, ‘Women and the Legacy of Britain’s "Civilising Mission”: New Zealand, 1894 to 1914’, in K. Darian-Smith, P. Grimshaw and S. Macintyre, (eds), The British Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007)
- J. Carey and P. Grimshaw, ‘The First 95 Years: Women Academics in the History Department, 1909 to 2004’, in F. Anderson and S. Macintyre (eds), The Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006, pp 127-155
- P. Grimshaw. ‘Introduction: Intercultural Encounters in Colonial Histories’, in P. Grimshaw and R. McGregor (eds), Collisions of Cultures and Identities: Settlers and Indigenous Peoples, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006, pp. 1-15
- P. Grimshaw, ‘Ann Bon’, in The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, edited by E. Ewan, S. Innes and S. Reynolds, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2006
- R. Howe, C. Cregan and P. Grimshaw, ‘Migrant Women Workers and Their Families: Two Social Surveys, 1975 and 2000’, in P. Grimshaw, J. Murphy and B. Probert, (eds), Double Shift: Working Mothers and Social Change in Australia, Melbourne, Circa Publishing, 2005, pp70-85
- P. Grimshaw, S. Swain and E. Warne, ‘Whose Problem? Experts and the Working Mother in 1960s Melbourne’, in S. Hanlon, S. and T. Luckins (eds), Go! Melbourne in the Sixties, Circa Press, Melbourne, 2005, pp131-148
- P. Grimshaw and S. Swain, ‘Dominion Women Writers: Ambivalent Identities’, in B. Caine, A. Curthoys, and M. Spongberg (eds), Palgrave Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, Palgrave, London, 2005, pp 119-128
- P. Grimshaw and P. Sherlock, ‘Women, Missions and Cultural Exchanges’, in N. Etherington (ed), Missions and Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, pp173-193
- P. Grimshaw, ‘Settler Anxieties, Race and the Women’s Vote in Pacific Settler Communities, 1888 to 1902’, in L Edwards and M. Roces (eds), Women’s Suffrage in Asia Routledge, London, 2004, pp 220-235
- C. Sowerwine and P. Grimshaw, ‘Women in Europe, the United States and Australia, 1914 to 2000’, in The Blackwell Companion to Gender History, edited by M. Wiesner-Hanks and T. Meade, Blackwell, London, 2004, pp 586-610
- N.Vlahogiannis, M.Turnbull, P.Grimshaw, A.Mayne, Tracy Smith, Peter Yule and Geoff Burrows, ’Schools’, in Peter Yule (ed), A History of Carlton, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2004, pp 262-89
- P. Grimshaw, ‘Faith, Missionary Life, and the Family’, in Levine, P. (ed), Gender and Empire, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, pp. 260-280
Supervision
Patricia Grimshaw has supervised close to 60 students in the completion of their PhD theses. Recent completions include:
- Miranda Walker: PhD Work and the Origins of the Women’s Movement in Australasia
- Sarah Curtis: PhD Amy Carmichael: A Woman Missionary in Colonial India
- Felicity Jensz: PhD Moravian Missions in Australia
- Janet Roberts: MA Australian Volunteers in the Royal Navy 1940-45
She is currently supervising the following M.A. and PhD students:
- Amanda Barry: PhD Education of Aboriginal Children in South-eastern Australia, 1900-1960
- Nell Musgrove: PhD Child Welfare in Australia 1880 to 1950
- Georgia Shiells: PhD Italian migrants in Australia, 1900-1940
- Barbara Lemon: PhD Women and Philanthropy in Twentieth Century Australia
- Claire McLisky: PhD Missions and Assimilation in Australian History
- Ros McCarthy: PhD Biography of Lorna Osborne
- Katie Pace: PhD The Archives of the Citizens’ Educational Fellowship
- Noah Riseman: PhD Indigenous Military in the Northern Territory in WW2
- Fiona Davis: PhD Negotiating White and Black Spaces: Cummeragunja in the 1920s and 1930s
- Sam Furphy: PhD E. H. Curr and Land Settlement in Colonial Victoria
- Anne Prince: PhD in Gender Studies/History Five Generations of Women through Family Correspondence
- Peter Carolane: PhD John Bulmer, Aborigines and Religious Change in Nineteenth Century Victoria
- Elizabeth Taylor: PhD in Gender Studies/History The International Exhibition of Women’s Work, Melbourne 1907
- Rachel Patrick: M.A. School Texts and National Identity in Victoria and New Zealand, 1900-30
Associate supervisor:
- Keith Hallett: PhD George Brown’s Mission in Papua New Guinea
- Heather Holst: PhD Gender, Race and Class in Castlemaine
- Erin Taylor: PhD Burmese Migrants in Australia