Ann Curthoys
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Ann Curthoys | |
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 Ann Curthoys (at left) interviewing residents at Moree Aboriginal Station during the Freedom Ride in February 1965 | |
| Born | 5 September 1945 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor |
| Parent | Barbara Curthoys |
| Relatives | Jean Curthoys (sister) |
| Awards | Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1997) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2003) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Sydney (BA [Hons]) Macquarie University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Race and Ethnicity: A Study of the Response of British Colonists to Aborigines, Chinese and non-British Europeans in New South Wales, 1856–1881 (1973) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Race relations Feminist theory Historiography |
| Institutions | University of Sydney Australian National University University of Technology, Sydney |
Ann Curthoys, AM, FASSA, FAHA (born 5 September 1945) is an Australian historian and academic.
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Curthoys was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 5 September 1945, and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. In 1965, she took part in the Freedom Ride which highlighted racism against Aboriginal Australians in several towns. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in 1973 and subsequently worked as a tutor and research assistant.[1]
Academic career
In 1976, Curthoys established the Women's Studies Program at the Australian National University (ANU) after becoming active in the women's movement in 1970. She taught at the University of Technology, Sydney from 1978 to 1995, when she returned to the ANU to take up the Chair of History. Curthoys was the Group of Eight Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Georgetown University in 2003 and 2004. In addition to her teaching work, Curthoys has extensively published on Australian history and historiography.[1]
Curthoys retired in 2013, but remains active as a researcher, writer and supervisor of graduate students at the University of Sydney.[2]
