Dr Ana Stevenson - Research Portfolio

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About

Ana Stevenson is a Lecturer in the Pathways Program at the Nguma-bada Campus of James Cook University. Her research brings transnational perspectives to the history of feminism and social movements by analysing women's activist networks from the nineteenth century to the present. Dedicated to creating dialogues between feminist, gender, and women's history and imperial and settler-colonial histories, her research spans the United States, Australia, and South Africa.

Her first book, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), recently appeared with "Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements." With Alana Piper, she also co-edited Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash University Publishing, 2019).

Additionally, Ana has been involved in a series of public outreach, digital history, and digital humanities initiatives. Established in 2016, she is the Founder and Managing Editor of VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network with Alana Piper (University of Technology Sydney). Ana is also the convenor of The Suffrage Postcard Project with Kristin Allukian (University of South Florida). Her writing has also appeared in news outlets such as The Washington Post's Made by History, Aeon, and The Conversation. In 2021, with Kate Law (University of Nottingham), Ana has organised the Womandla! Online Seminar Series.

Interests

Research

Women's History
Social Movements
Media History
Transnational History
Feminist Theory

Teaching

History
Academic Literacy
Critical Literacy
Digital Literacy

Experience

2021 to 2023 - Research Associate, International Studies Group, University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
2020 - Casual Learning Advisor, The Learning Centre, James Cook University (Cairns, Australia)
2016 to 2020 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Studies Group, University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
2015 - Internship, Arts + Culture Desk, The Conversation (Melbourne, Australia)
2014 to 2015 - Visiting Scholar, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, United States)
2013 to 2014 - Academic Tutor, St John's College within The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
2013 - Sessional Lecturer and Course Coordinator, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
2011 to 2013 - Tutor, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
2010 to 2011 - Summer Research Scholar, Queensland Historical Atlas, The University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)
2009 to 2010 - Summer Research Scholar, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Awards

2019 - Covert Award in Mass Communication History, History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
2019 - Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize, Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association

Fellowships

2012 - New England Regional Fellowship Consortium

Memberships

2020 - Association for Academic Language and Learning
2019 - Organisation of American Historians
2016 - Southern African Historical Society
2011 - Australian Historical Association
2011 - Australian Women's History Network

Publications

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Journal Articles

Stevenson A and Allukian K (2021) The Suffrage Postcard Project: feminist digital archiving and transatlantic suffrage history. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, 8.
Stevenson A (2018) In flag-rante: Julia Gillard and the infamous ‘flag scene’ in ABC’s At Home with Julia. The Journal of Popular Television, 6 (3). pp. 381-403
Stevenson A (2018) The gender-apartheid analogy in the transnational feminist imaginary: Ms. Magazine and the Feminist Majority Foundation, 1972-2002. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, 19 (1). pp. 93-116
Stevenson A (2018) “Cast off the shackles of yesterday”: women’s suffrage in Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins. Camera Obscura, 33 (2). pp. 69-103
Stevenson A (2018) Harriet Clisby’s 'Sketches of Australia': travel writing and colonial refigurations in Boston’s Woman’s Journal. Women's History Review, 27 (5). pp. 837-857
Stevenson A (2018) Imagining women's suffrage: frontier landscapes and the transnational print culture of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Pacific Historical Review, 87 (4). pp. 638-666
Stevenson A (2017) The “great doctrine of human rights”: articulation and authentication in the nineteenth-century U.S. antislavery and women’s rights movements. Humanity, 8 (3). pp. 413-439

Books

Stevenson A (2019) The woman as slave in nineteenth-century American social movements. Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

Book Chapters

Piper A and Stevenson A (2020) Business as usual: feminist history in a post-truth world. In: History in a Post-Truth World: theory and praxis. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 183-198
Stevenson A (2020) From the ‘radical women’s press’ to the digital age: subversive networks of feminism in the United States. In: From Sit-Ins to #revolutions: media and the changing nature of protests. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, New York, NY, USA, pp. 51-64
Stevenson A (2020) Gillard of Thrones: using popular culture to resist misogyny. In: Resist and Persist: essays on social revolution in 21st century narratives. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, United States, pp. 162-174
Stevenson A (2020) From suffragist to congresswoman: celebrating political action, women’s history, and feminist intellectuals in Ms. magazine, 1972-1984. In: Suffrage at 100: women in American politics since 1920. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pp. 201-218

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 15+ research outputs authored by Dr Ana Stevenson from 2017 onwards.

Collaboration

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