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10/21/2021 4:20:33 PM
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor, The University of Melbourne Profile Articles Activity
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
- –present Professor, Centre for Health & Society, University of Melbourne
Education
- 1975 Australian National University, PhD (History)
Publications
- 2011 Colonial health transitions: Aboriginal and 'poor white' infant mortality compared, 1850-1910, The History of the Family, 16, 62-77.
- 2010 'The Good Life": what about the children?, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 45(1) 90-100
- 2009 Colonialism & the health transition: Aboriginal Australians & poor whites compared, 1850-1985, The History of the Family, 14, 253-265
Grants and Contracts
- 2011 Land & Life: Aborigines, Convicts in Immigrants in colonial Victoria: Role: CI Funding Source: ARC
Honours
AC. FAHA, FASSA
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