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Dr Ana Stevenson

Dr Ana Stevenson
Name Ana Stevenson
Position Senior Lecturer (Pathways)
Section UniSQ College (Pathways)
Office K331
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1862
Extension 1862
Email
Qualifications BComm CQU , BA(Hons) Qld , GCertEd UNSW , MEd UNSW , PhD Qld
Languages Sign Languages (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/814yz/dr-ana-stevenson
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Biography

Ana Stevenson is a historian whose research brings transnational perspectives to the history of feminism and social movements in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Her teaching experience spans academic, digital, and critical literacies and history, while her interdisciplinary research also encompasses on literary, media, and cultural studies and feminist theory. Ana was the co-founder of VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network (est. 2016), with Alana Piper, and the current Managing Editor with Paige Donaghy (The University of Melbourne). She is also the co-convener of a digital humanities initiative, The Suffrage Postcard Project (est. 2015), with Kristin Allukian (University of South Florida). In 2019, her journal article in the Pacific Historical Review was awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and the Covert Award in Mass Communication History by the History Division, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Since 2021, Ana has been a Research Fellow of the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Ana has taught academic and digital literacies, history, humanities, literature, and media studies at the foundation, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels, and she invites expressions of interest from potential Graduate Research School Summer Research Scholarship and Higher Degree by Research (Master and PhD) applicants. For more information, see the Supervision section below.

Research Career


  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )
  • North American History ( 430321 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • Sub-Saharan African History ( 430322 )
  • Digital History ( 430306 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Intersectional Studies ( 440505 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Womens Studies (incl. Girls Studies) ( 440509 )
  • Postcolonial Studies ( 470213 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Feminist Methodologies ( 440502 )

History; Feminist Studies; Media Studies; Film studies; Academic Literacies; Pathways Education


Australian Historical Association
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association
Australian Women's History Network
National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia
Southern African Historical Society


  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


TPP7111 Communicating at University A
TPP7123 Communicating at University B
TPP0145 Introduction to the Humanities
MDS1004 Humanities Fundamentals


14 Years


Associate Head (Research), UniSQ College (2024–25)

Supervision


  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • Screen And Media Culture ( 470214 )
  • Gender Studies ( 440500 )
  • North American History ( 430321 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • Sub-Saharan African History ( 430322 )
  • Digital History ( 430306 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Intersectional Studies ( 440505 )
  • Cultural Studies ( 470200 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Feminist Theory ( 440503 )
  • Womens Studies (incl. Girls Studies) ( 440509 )
  • Postcolonial Studies ( 470213 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Feminist Methodologies ( 440502 )