Michelle Arrow

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Michelle Arrow, FASSA is professor in Modern History at Macquarie University and the President of the Australian Historical Association. She is an expert on twentieth century Australian history, feminist and gender history, and the history of popular culture. She is the author of four books, including Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for history and was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Michelle won the 2014 Multimedia History Prize in the NSW Premier’s History Awards for her radio documentary ‘Public Intimacies: the 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships’, and she has held research fellowships at the National Archives of Australia and the National Library of Australia. Michelle won an Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation in 2010, and served on the advisory panel of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History between 2009-12.

She is currently working on a biography of the Australian writer and broadcaster Anne Deveson, funded by an ARC grant. Her most recent book is Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia, co-authored with Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird and Robert Reynolds (Monash University Publishing, 2024).

Experience

  • 2020–present
    Professor of History, Macquarie University
  • 2012–2019
    Associate Professor, Macquarie University
  • 2010–2012
    Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2007–2009
    Lecturer, Macquarie University
  • 2004–2006
    Associate Lecturer, Macquarie University

Education

  • 1999 
    University of Sydney, PhD
  • 1995 
    University of Sydney, Bachelor of Arts, (Hons 1)

Publications

  • 2024
    Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia (with Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, and Robert Reynolds), Monash University Press
  • 2023
    Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution (ed), NewSouth
  • 2019
    Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Sexuality, Gender and Culture in 1970s Australia (ed with Angela Woollacott), ANU Press
  • 2019
    The Seventies: The Personal, The Political and the Making of Modern Australia, NewSouth
  • 2016
    Small Screens: Essays on Contemporary Australian Television (ed With Jeannine Baker and Clare Monagle), Monash University Press
  • 2009
    Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945, University of NSW Press
  • 2009
    The Chamberlain Case: Nation, Law, Memory (ed with Deborah Staines and Katherine Biber), ASP
  • 2002
    Upstaged: Australian Women Playwrights in the LImelight at Last , Currency Press

Honours

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia

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