Zoe Smith
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History at UNSW Sydney, working on the history of coercive control in Australia | she/her
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined January 2020
We are delighted to open our CFP for our 2026 issue! We particuarly invite those who presented at last week's symposium to submit contributions. As usual, we are also seeking original research articles on any topic in women's, feminist & gender history. CFP closes 30 January 2026
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Happy day: my contribution to the @IsisJournal focus issue "Is Deep History White?" has been published! My article, 'Mungo Man, Settler Mythology, and the Contest of Australia’s Deep History,' considers the complexities of deep history in Australia: how and by whom it can be...
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Very honoured to win this one - and incredibly grateful to the judges for such a generous citation!
Congratulations to Zoe Smith (ANU) @ZoeASmith4 winner of the 2025 Ken Inglis Prize for the best paper presented by a postgrad at the @AustHistAssoc conference. Thanks to Taylor & Francis @tandfonline for supporting our annual prize. See the judges’ citation below
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I’m really looking forward to reflecting on my experiences on at the Lilith Collective as part of the symposium’s plenary panel! What a stellar line up!
Registrations are open for our joint symposium with @auswhn! The symposium is 24-25 November at the University of Melbourne & we have an amazing program lined up to celebrate 40 years of Lilith! Registrations close 3 Nov. Registrations & draft program: https://t.co/0SOhQ3Pj25
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The winner of the 2025 Jill Roe Regional History Award is Zoe Smith, for her essay, ‘No Place for a Woman’: Historicising rural, regional, and remote domestic violence in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia Read Zoe's statement via https://t.co/lSDzHejZAQ
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Very honoured to have been awarded this one! Thank you again to the HCNSW and the judges for the award and their generous citation!
The winner of the 2025 Jill Roe Regional History Award is Zoe Smith for her essay, No Place for a Woman’: Historicising rural, regional, and remote domestic violence in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia Please join us in congratulating Zoe! #HCNSWAwards
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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin - writers/ readers please sign
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nurturing feminist histories in precarious times: founding stories, forging communities, feminist futures (aka Lilith 40th anniversary 🎉) Call for Papers: Deadline extended to Monday 8 September https://t.co/mLvdTChp1C
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The Australian Women’s History Network convenes a conference or symposium annually. In recent years this has taken the form of a dedicated stream at the Australian Historical Association Conference....
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We've extended the CFP deadline for the upcoming Lilith/@auswhn symposium! You now have until Monday 8 September to send through your paper title, abstract, and bio - we look forward to receiving them and seeing you in November!
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I cannot recommend enough being part of the Lilith collective as an emerging feminist historian - the solidarity, development, and joy I've experienced working with this collective has been unparalleled. Come join us!
We're on the hunt for some new members to join our editorial collective! We invite all HDRs & ECRs with an interest in women’s, feminist, or gender history to submit an EOI. Interested applicants should send their current CV to lilithjournal@gmail.com. EOIs due 19th September.
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🎉 Our school excelled at the @GenderANU Awards: 🏆 Ruby Ekkel won Best Journal Article for her research on the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club. 👏 Zoe Smith received high commendation in the same category. And 🎓 Ashley Price was a joint winner in the Honours Thesis category!
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People of all professions, including those in the business and corporate sphere, have signed our petition, leaving comments about the enduring social, political, and economic value of the BA. Sign the petition, read the comments, leave your own in support!
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New article from me which I hope is of some use in the world. Open access. Full article: Seeing the signs: thinking historically about coercive control
tandfonline.com
Coercive control is a course of conduct aimed at controlling and dominating another, most often perpetrated by men against women. It can include physical, sexual, emotional and / or psychological a...
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My article '‘Domestic tyranny’ & ‘petty despotism’: historicising coercive control in late-19th & early-20th-C Australia' in the @womenshistrev special forum has just been published online! It was such a honour to contribute to this important forum https://t.co/cplDnERri8
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Coercive control is far from a new, or even newly recognised, issue. Indeed, Australian authors and wives criticised patriarchal control and authority in marriage from as early as 1880, spotlightin...
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Incredibly honoured to be part of this important special forum!
Intro to our forum in WHR is out & open access! @AnnCurthoys @catherinekevin5 @claireemorey @ZoeASmith4 Historicising domestic abuse in Australia 1850–2020: how useful is new language for describing an old problem?
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We are delighted to announce the details of our 2025 symposium - a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Lilith in joint collaboration with @auswhn held at the University of Melbourne over 24-25 November. Our CFP is now open! Please see details below. Submissions due 29/08 🎉
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a new article from @ZoraSimic, Ben Silverstein and me. we hope it can be of use in the fight for Palestinian liberation. full (open access) article: https://t.co/MdxvouD3lc
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I'm very excited that my article with History Australia, 'The brutality of the breadwinner: historicising economic violence in the wake of the Australian Married Women’s Property Acts, 1880–1914', was published online and open access this morning!
tandfonline.com
In 1982, Judith Allen argued that colonial women’s economic dependence on the male breadwinner was both ‘the precondition for family violence and the reason for its continuation’. Although the econ...
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Our second article spotlight from our 2024 issue shines light on Bridget Brooklyn's article 'Eugenics & Feminism in Early 20thC Australia', which explores the complicated relationship between maternal feminism & eugenics via a case study of Dr Mary Booth. https://t.co/1MLSNh2LB3
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I'm very excited to be presenting in @Contemp_History's seminar series next Wednesday morning! If you'd like to hear a snippet of my PhD research & the (nearly finished) final product, you can tune in via Zoom! Information and zoom link at the link below: https://t.co/H9KVNtua79
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