Dr Zoe Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in History (The Australian National University)
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History in the School of Humanities and Languages at UNSW, Sydney. My research sits at the intersections of gender history, cultural history, social history, literary history, and feminist legal history, and has been published in leading academic journals including History Australia, Australian Feminist Studies and Women’s History Review. My award-winning doctoral research, completed at the Australian National University, was a social and cultural history of domestic violence in Australia between 1880 and 1914, and I am now working on the history of coercive control in Australia between 1890 and 1975.
E-mail
Location
Morven Brown 225
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
2024: National Library of Australia Seymour Scholarship ($6,000)
2025: Australian Historical Studies Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize
2025: History Council of New South Wales Jill Roe Regional History Award
2024: Australian Historical Association Jill Roe Prize
2023: History Council of New South Wales Max Kelly Award
In the media
- The Conversation (2024) - ‘A prisoner on the rack’ – how 19th-century Australian women wrote about marital rape
- BroadAgenda (2023) - ‘Coercive Control: not a new phenomenon’
Membership
- Australian Historical Assocation
- Australian Women's History Network
- Australia & New Zealand Historical Criminology Network
- Australia & New Zealand Law & History Society
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Lilith: A Feminist History Journal Editorial Board (2022-2026)