Barbara Caine

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Barbara Caine
Born(1948-04-02)2 April 1948
Nationality Australian
EducationPh D Monash University
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
OccupationHistorian & Professor
EmployerUniversity of Sydney
Known forWomen History

Barbara Caine AM is an Australian feminist historian. [1]

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Biography

She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960. [2] Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. [3] She has written extensively on British and Australian women's history, and has written biographies of a number of historical figures, including the Strachey family and the Webb family.

Caine researches and writes in the fields of nineteenth-century studies, [4] women's history and biography and life-writing. She is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society. [5]

Caine established the first Women's Studies Centre in Australia at the University of Sydney, and oversaw its development into a Department of Women's Studies.

Awards and honours

In 2014, Caine became a member of the Order of Australia "for significant service to tertiary education, particularly gender studies, and as a role model and mentor". [6]

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Books

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ABC interview on the relationship between biography and history<http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/biography-and-history/2930992>