Melanie Nolan

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Melanie Claire Nolan FASSA (born 1960) is a historian and university academic from New Zealand, specialising in labour and gender history. [1] [2] She is the Director of the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. [3]

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Early life and education

Nolan was born in Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand to Paul Nolan and Alison Coad. She attended many schools as her parents moved around the country for work, including Villa Maria College, Christchurch (1967–1971), Mercy College, Timaru (1971) and Teschemakers Dominican College, Oamaru (1974–1975) and Mount Maunganui College, where she was dux. [2] In 1978 she won a scholarship to study at the University of Canterbury, which she attended from 1979 to 1985. She obtained a Master of Arts in 1985 with her masters thesis titled Jack McCullough : workers' representative on the Arbitration Court. [4] She then won a further scholarship to study at the Australian National University, which she attended from 1986 to 1989 for her doctoral degree. Her thesis was a case study of women blue collar workers in Victoria, Australia, from 1880 to 1939. [1]

Career

Nolan lectured in history at Victoria University of Wellington from 1992 to 2008, including holding the position of head of the history department for two years. She also worked in the New Zealand public service, including the State Services Commission (1984–1986), the Treaty Issues Unit of the Crown Law Office (1989), and the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs (1990–1992). [1]

In 2008 Nolan was appointed General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. [5]

Publications

Recognition

Nolan won the 2006 Archives & Records Association of New Zealand Ian Wards Prize and was shortlisted for the 2007 Ernest Scott Prize for her work Kin. [2] In 2016 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Melanie Nolan" . Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Melbourne, The University of. "Nolan, Melanie – Woman – The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "Melanie Nolan". The Conversation. 24 March 2011. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ↑ Nolan, Melanie (1985). Jack McCullough : workers' representative on the Arbitration Court (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/4982. hdl:10092/12857.
  5. ↑ "Missing in action | Inside Story". Inside Story. 14 March 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  6. 1 2 "Books | University of Canterbury". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  7. ↑ "Contacts – Canterbury University Press – University of Canterbury – New Zealand". www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  8. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Professor Melanie Nolan FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
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