Jeannine Baker
Jeannine Baker is an Australian historian. She specialises in women's, labour and media history and is a research fellow at Macquarie University, Sydney.[1]
Life
Baker completed a BA in Mass Communications from Macquarie University and an MA in Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She completed a PhD in Australian history at the University of Melbourne in 2014. Her thesis, on Australian women war reporters during World War II, was later published as Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam.[1]
Baker has also worked as an oral history interviewer and made historical documentaries including Our Drowned Town (SBS TV, 2001) about the flooding of the New South Wales town of Adaminaby for the Snowy Mountains Scheme and Holding a Tiger by the Tail: Jessie Litchfield (Earshot, ABC Radio National, 2015), about the Darwin newspaper editor and journalist Jessie Litchfield.[2]
Jeannine Baker was a recipient of the International Federation of Television Archives Media Studies Grant in 2021, which she used to conduct research and publish about the role of women in early Australian television production.
Publications
- Baker, J. Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam. Sydney: NewSouth, 2015[3]
- Arrow M, Baker J, and Monagle C (eds), Small Screens: Essays in Contemporary Australian Television. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2016.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Dr Jeannine Baker - Macquarie University". www.mq.edu.au. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ "Jeannine Baker". researchers.mq.edu.au. Macquarie University. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ "Australia's pioneering female war reporters". Radio National. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
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