Kay Saunders
Kay Saunders | |
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Born | Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders 1947 (age 76–77) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Queensland |
Thesis | Uncertain bondage: an analysis of indentured labour in Queensland to 1907: with particular reference to the Melanesian servants (1975) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Institutions | University of Queensland |
Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders AO FASSA FRHistS (born 1947) is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland.
Earlyl life and education
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]
Career
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
- McGrath, Ann; Saunders, Kay; Huggins, Jackie (1995), Aboriginal Workers, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, ISBN 978-0-909944-04-9 (Reissued in 2020.[5])
- 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
- ^ "Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ a b Harrison, Sharon M. "Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Dr Kay Elizabeth Bass SAUNDERS". It's An Honour. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Emeritus Professor Kay Elizabeth SAUNDERS AM". It's An Honour. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History". Liverpool University Press. 30 November 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
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