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Barbara Caine
Australian historian & scholar

Barbara Caine

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Australian historian & scholar
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Gender
Female
Place of birth
Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa
Age
76 years
Residence
Greenwich, New South Wales, Australia; Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Education
University of Sydney
doctorate
Monash University
University of Sussex
Awards
Centenary Medal
(2001)
Member of the Order of Australia
(2014)
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Biography

Barbara Caine AM is an Australian feminist historian.

Biography

She was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, then her family settled in Australia in 1960. Since 2015 she has been the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. 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, women’s history and biography and life-writing.She is a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the British Royal Historical Society.

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".

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