Catherine Bishop (historian)

Catherine Bishop is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based historian specialising in gender and business history.[1] In 2016 she won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize.[2]

Bishop at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand, October 2019

Early life and education

Bishop grew up in the North Island town of Whanganui, where her father was a teacher at Whanganui Collegiate School and the family lived on the school grounds.[3] Bishop attended Whanganui High School and then moved to Wellington to study history and maths at Victoria University of Wellington. She completed a master's degree in history at the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2012 she completed a PhD in history at the Australian National University, studying the lives of businesswomen in Sydney and Wellington.[3][4]

Career

In 2015, Bishop published some of her PhD research as the book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial businesswomen in Sydney.[5] The following year, it won the Ashurst Business Literature Prize.[6] In 2016, she was the Australian Religious History Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales. The same year she won the Australian Women's History Network Mary Bennett prize and received a New Zealand History Trust Award to help fund her research for her second book extending her PhD research, Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2019).[7][8]

In 2019, she was a visiting fellow at Northumbria University, England. From 2019 to 2021 she has a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie University and is working on research into Australian businesswomen since 1880.[9]

Bishop is also a contributor to the Dictionary of Sydney.[9]

References
  1. Stowell, Laurel (2019-09-24). "Former Whanganui woman Dr Catherine Bishop launches history book celebrating inspirational women". ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  2. "Historian wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  3. Noted. "The award-winning historian putting colonial businesswomen on the map". www.noted.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  4. "Women mean business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand | Events | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  5. Catherine, Bishop. Minding her own business : colonial businesswomen in Sydney. Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN 9781742234328. OCLC 908556563.
  6. "Minding Her Own Business". www.newsouthbooks.com.au. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
  7. Wednesday; January 2016, 13; Culture, 11:38 am Press Release: Ministry of; Heritage. "History awards to reveal New Zealand's past | Scoop News". www.scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-30.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. "Australian Women's History Network's Mary Bennett Prize for Women's History 2016, for best article or chapter by an early career historian in any field of women's history 2014-15, $". Macquarie University. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
  9. "Women mean business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand | Events | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
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