Caitlin Mahar

Dr Caitlin Mahar is an historian and education specialist at Swinburne University of Technology. Her research and teaching focusses on histories of social movements, dying, pain and sexuality. She completed a PhD on the history of the euthanasia movement at the University of Melbourne in 2016 in the course of which she was awarded the Society for the Social History of Medicine Roy Porter Essay Prize, the New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Ben Haneman Memorial Award and the University of Melbourne’s Dennis-Wettenhall Prize. Her first book, The Good Death Through Time, was published by Melbourne University Press in 2023 and shortlisted for Educational Publishing Australia’s EPAA Scholarly Book of the Year Award. She was formerly a lecturer in literature in the Trinity College Foundation Studies program.