Judith Brett
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Member of the Order of Australia (2023)
University of Oxford (DipSocAnth)
Judith Margaret Brett | |
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| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Melbourne, Australia |
| Awards | Ernest Scott Prize (1993, 2004) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA) (PhD) University of Oxford (DipSocAnth) |
| Thesis | The Milk of Language: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Crisis (1980) |
| Influences | Dennis Altman[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | La Trobe University (1989–2012) |
| Main interests | Cultural history, political history |
| Notable works | Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) |
Judith Margaret Brett AM (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.[2][3] She retired from La Trobe in 2012, after a restructuring of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in which the School of which she was head was dismantled.[4]
Her PhD from Melbourne University's Politics Department in the 1970s was on Austrian fin-de-siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.[5]
Brett's 2017 biography of Alfred Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award.[6] Her next book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting,[7] was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland History Book Award.[8]
Brett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours.[9]
