- Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne
Janet McCalman AC, FAHA, FASSA is Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at the University of Melbourne. She is an historian who specialises in historical population health, and is the author of Struggletown (1984), Journeyings (1993), Sex and Suffering: women health and a women's hospital (1998) and most recently Vandemonians: the repressed history of colonial Victoria (2021) In 2020 she co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next: reconstructing Australia after COVID 19. All her books are published by Melbourne University Publishing.
Experience
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–presentProfessor, Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne
Education
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1975Australian National University, PhD (History)
Publications
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2011Colonial health transitions: Aboriginal and 'poor white' infant mortality compared, 1850-1910, The History of the Family, 16, 62-77.
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2010'The Good Life": what about the children?, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 45(1) 90-100
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2009Colonialism & the health transition: Aboriginal Australians & poor whites compared, 1850-1985, The History of the Family, 14, 253-265
Grants and Contracts
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2011Land & Life: Aborigines, Convicts in Immigrants in colonial Victoria:
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- CI
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- ARC
Honours
AC. FAHA, FASSA
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