Managing Editor

Ana Stevenson, Managing Editor and Founder

ANA STEVENSON is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head (Research) with UniSQ College at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a Research Fellow with the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

Ana received her Ph.D. from The University of Queensland in 2015. Between 2014 and 2015, she was a Visiting Scholar in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. Her research brings transnational perspectives to the history of feminism and social movements in the United States, Australia, and South Africa. Ana’s first book, The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements (2019), appeared with Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements. With Alana Piper, she is the editor of Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (2019).

In 2019, Ana’s journal article in the Pacific Historical Review was awarded the W. Turrentine Jackson (Article) Prize by the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association and the Covert Award by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Ana is the co-convenor of The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital humanities initiative about women’s suffrage postcards. Ana is also interested in knowledge translation and research communication, as the lead of the Academic Blogging and the Public Humanities project.

Follow Ana on Twitter/X @DrAnaStevenson.

Managing Editor

Paige Donaghy, Managing Editor

PAIGE DONAGHY is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Paige finished her Ph.D. at The University of Queensland in 2023, which received the 2024 Dean’s Award for Outstanding Thesis. In 2022, she was the inaugural recipient of the UQ Berlin Residency Award, and a visiting Predoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. She previously worked as a committee member on the Lilith Collective, and for the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies journal Parergon.

Paige’s research explores the history of medicine, science, gender and reproduction in Europe circa 1550 to 1850. Her thesis presents the first history of false pregnancy and conception in early modern Europe, and her published work has explored the intersections of medicine, women’s sexuality and reproduction. Paige’s latest article, “The Secrets of the Placenta in European Anatomy and Midwifery, 1560-1700” was published in Isis: A Journal for the History of Science Society in 2023. She is also the current Secretary for the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine.

Find Paige on Twitter/X @donaphy.

Commissioning Editors

Vera Mackie, Commissioning Editor

VERA MACKIE is Emeritus Senior Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Recent publications include IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History (2020, with Sarah Ferber and Nicola J. Marks); The Reproductive Industry: Intimate Experiences and Global Processes (2019, with Nicola J. Marks and Sarah Ferber); Remembering Women’s Activism (2019, with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa); The Social Sciences in the Asian Century (2015, with Carol Johnson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki); The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia (2015, with Mark McLelland); Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan (2014, with Andrea Germer and Ulrike Wöhr); Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality (2003); and Gurōbaruka to Jendā Hyōshō [Globalisation and Representations of Gender] (2003).

Vera is also an active contributor to such publications as Australian Outlook, History Workshop Online, Intersections: Gender and Culture in Asia and the Pacific, Japan Focus, and VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network.

Follow Vera on Twitter/X @veramackie.

Ruby Ekkel, Commissioning Editor

RUBY EKKEL is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University, Australia, and a visiting student at the University of Oxford, UK.

Her research focuses on changing interactions with Australian native animals, especially as mediated by women. Ruby has published award-winning work spanning animal history, environmental history, and women’s history in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She also contributes to public forums including The Conversation, ABC Radio, and the Australian Book Review. Ruby has served as an HDR Representative for the Australian Historical Association Executive, and was a co-editor of the ANU Historical Journal II no. 4.

Follow Ruby on Twitter/X @ruby_ekkel.

Editorial Assistant

Michael Stockwell, 2024 Higher Degree by Research Internship

MICHAEL STOCKWELL is a PhD candidate with the Centre for Heritage and Culture and the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Michael has a background in hospitality, classical music, education and law. Currently, he works in the School of Law and Justice and the IAS tutoring program at the University of Southern Queensland. His doctoral research investigates the prosecution, persecution, and vilification of homosexual men in Queensland during the Bjelke-Petersen era, exploring how the experiences in their formative years affect their willingness to engage with legal and administrative systems later in life.

Michael has a Higher Degree by Research Internship with the Australian Women’s History Network for 2024, where he works with Managing Editors Dr Ana Stevenson and Dr Paige Donaghy on VIDA blog.

Junior Editorial Assistants

Alex Grady, UQ Internship 2024

ALEX GRADY is completing their Bachelor of Advanced Humanities (Honours) in Art History at The University of Queensland, Australia.

With a keen interest in women’s history through their appreciation of textile art, Alex explores the relationships between women throughout history and how collaborative traditions have been integral to storytelling and history making.

Isabelle Walker, UQ Internship 2024

ISABELLE WALKER is pursuing a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities (Honours) at The University of Queensland, Australia, with a major in Philosophy.

Isabelle has a strong interest in examining how historical stories influence current viewpoints and investigating the important role of the humanities in global politics and power relationships. Her work demonstrates a profound inquisitiveness regarding the points where history, philosophy, and international relations converge.

Bronte Keding, UQ Internship 2024

BRONTE KEDING is an undergraduate student of Art History/History at the University of Queensland.

Her research areas include medieval women’s studies, mid-20^th century countercultural movements, and studies in religion. She is currently researching depictions of female Catholic saints in European art ca. 500–1500.