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Dr Catherine Dewhirst

Dr Catherine Dewhirst
Name Catherine Dewhirst
Position Senior Lecturer (History)
Section School of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways
Office Q206
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1046
Extension 1046
Email
Qualifications DipCivFr Universite De Paris-Sorbonne , BA University of New South Wales , GDipEd University of New South Wales , MA University of New South Wales , PhD Qld University of Technology
Languages French (non accredited translator)
German (non accredited translator)
Italian (non accredited translator)
Homepage https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-0075
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Executive Support

Biography

Catherine Dewhirst is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Business, Law, Humanities and Pathways, and a member of the Centre for Heritage and Culture, Institute for Communities and Regional Development (UniSQ). She has served as Queensland representative on the Management Committee for the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (2009-2022). During her role at UniSQ, she has convened conferences and symposia, been invited as a guest speaker or presenter at various institutions' events in Australia, France and Italy, and attained research-publication awards and funding. Her publications focus on migrant communities, the minority periodical press, family and women's histories, memories and life-narratives, and retrieving the 'voices' and experiences of those who have been silenced in the past. Her research projects include internal and external grants and collaborations, such as:

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* History of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Community Press book projects (with University of New England co-editor and keynote speaker) in 2020 and 2021, and a grant from The Ian Potter Foundation for our international keynote speaker (University of Bristol, UK) for the earlier Symposium, 2017.

* Chief Convenor of the 'Local Communities, Global Networks' Australian Historical Association's 38th Conference, 8-12 July 2019.

* Initiating the '150 Years of Italians in Queensland' and co-convenor for the 2009 'Sesquicentenary Celebrations of Italian migrant contributions' (with co-convenors from Griffith University and the University of the Sunshine Coast).

Research Projects:

* Italian Migrant Memories of Internment (Academic Affairs Collaboration Grant 2024 - ongoing with UniSQ Ethics approval).

* Liberal Italy, Editors of the Italian-Migrant Press.

* Histories of Australia’s Multicultural and Foreign-Language Community Newspapers (co-edited Palgrave Macmillan book publications).

Research Career


  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) ( 210307 )
  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Biography ( 430303 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )

Australian and Italian migration histories
Imperial, diaspora and transnational histories
Migrant newspapers and community-building
European and world histories
Women's history / gender relations
Historiography
Family history / biography


Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS)
Australian Historical Association (AHA)
Dante Alighieri Society, Brisbane


Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Management Committee Queensland Representative (2008-2022):
http://www.acis.org.au/
Australian Historical Association (AHA)
https://www.theaha.org.au/


  • Institute for Communities and Regional Development (ICRD)
  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


HIS1004 Global History, 1500-1900
HIS2001 Racism, Sovereignty and Equality
HIS2006 Revolutions and the People's Voice
HIS3004 Interpreting the Past
HMT4004 Humanities, Arts and Social Science Research Design and Methods
HMT4006 Advanced Theories and Debates in the Discipline
HAC3001 Careers
MAR8003 Master of Arts Project A
MAR8003 Master of Arts Project B

PhD supervision
MRES supervison
Honours supervision


27 Years


4 Years

Supervision


  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 210399 )
  • European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) ( 210307 )
  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Historical Studies not elsewhere classified ( 430399 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Histories Of Race ( 430312 )
  • Transnational History ( 430323 )
  • History Of Empires ( 430313 )
  • Biography ( 430303 )
  • Global And World History ( 430310 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • Gender History ( 430309 )