Kay Saunders

Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders AO FASSA FRHistS (born 1947) is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland.

Kay Saunders

AO FASSA FRHistS
Born
Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders

1947 (age 73–74)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Queensland
ThesisUncertain bondage: an analysis of indentured labour in Queensland to 1907: with particular reference to the Melanesian servants (1975)
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
InstitutionsUniversity of Queensland

Saunders was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1947.[1] She graduated with a BA (1970) and PhD (1975) from the University of Queensland (UQ).[2] She was employed by UQ throughout her academic career, firstly as tutor, then progressing through the ranks to Professor of History (2002–2005). Following her retirement in 2006 she was appointed Emeritus Professor.[2]

Honours and recognition

Saunders was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999,[3] and was promoted to Officer in the 2021 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly to history, as an academic and author, to professional associations, and to the community".[4]

Selected works
  • Saunders, Kay (1 January 1982), Workers in bondage: The origins and bases of unfree labour in Queensland, 1824-1916, University of Queensland Press
  • Saunders, Kay; Daniels, Roger, eds. (2000), Alien justice: Wartime internment in Australia and North America, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-2991-6
  • Saunders, Kay (2011), Notorious Australian women, HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7333-2832-9
  • Saunders, Kay (2013), Deadly Australian women, HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 978-0-7304-9375-4

References
  1. "Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  2. Harrison, Sharon M. "Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  3. "Dr Kay Elizabeth Bass SAUNDERS". It's An Honour. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  4. "Emeritus Professor Kay Elizabeth SAUNDERS AM". It's An Honour. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
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