- Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland
Ana Stevenson is the Senior Advisor – Research and Evaluation at Anglicare Southern Queensland, with honorary roles as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Heritage and Culture at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a Research Fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research as a feminist historian spans transnational social movements across the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, from abolitionism and women's suffrage to anti-apartheid and women's liberation.
Her first book, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), appeared with the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. With Alana Piper, she co-edited Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2019). The Suffrage Postcard Project is a digital humanities initiative she co-convenes with Kristin Allukian: http://thesuffragepostcardproject.omeka.net/.
Experience
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2025–presentSenior Advisor – Research and Evaluation, Anglicare Southern Queensland
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2025–presentAdjunct Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Heritage and Culture, University of Southern Queensland
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2021–presentResearch Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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2024–2024Associate Head (Research) and Senior Lecturer, UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland
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2022–2023Lecturer, UniSQ College, University of Southern Queensland
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2021–2021Lecturer, Pathways Program, James Cook University
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2016–2020Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State
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2014–2015Visiting Scholar, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh
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2011–2013Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, The University of Queensland
Education
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2022University of New South Wales, Master of Education
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2015The University of Queensland, Doctor of Philosophy
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2009The University of Queensland, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), First Class
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2008Central Queensland Univeristy, Bachelor of Communication with Distinction
Publications
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2019The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements, Palgrave Macmillan
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2019Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Monash University Publishing
Grants and Contracts
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2023Discovery Project
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Australian Historical Association
- Australia New Zealand American Studies Association
- Australian Women's History Network
- National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA)
Honours
Y1: Promising Young Researcher, National Research Foundation, South Africa
Contact Ana for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Meanjin Brisbane, Australia | Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Website
- BlueSky: @dranastevenson.bsky.social
- LinkedIn: anastevenson
- X (formerly Twitter): @DrAnaStevenson
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
