Catherine Bishop (historian)

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Catherine Bishop (historian) - Wikipedia

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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]

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 in England. From 2019 to 2021 she has a postdoctoral fellowship at Macquarie University and is working on research into Australian businesswomen since 1880.^[9]

In 2021 Bishop published Too much cabbage and Jesus Christ : Australia's 'mission girl' Annie Lock (Wakefield Press), this was an extension of her master's degree thesis, about Australian missionary Annie Lock.^[10]^[11]

Bishop is also a contributor to the Dictionary of Sydney and the Australian Dictionary of Biography.^[9]^[12]

References

^ Stowell, Laurel (2019-09-24). "Former Whanganui woman Dr Catherine Bishop launches history book celebrating inspirational women". ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
^ "Historian wins Ashurst Business Literature Prize". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
^ ^a ^b "The award-winning historian putting colonial businesswomen on the map". www.noted.co.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
^ "Women mean business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand | Events | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
^ Bishop, Catherine (2015). Minding her own business : colonial businesswomen in Sydney. Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN 9781742234328. OCLC 908556563.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Minding Her Own Business". www.newsouthbooks.com.au. Retrieved 2019-10-29.
^ "History awards to reveal New Zealand's past". www.scoop.co.nz. January 13, 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
^ "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.
^ ^a ^b "Women mean business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand | Events | National Library of New Zealand". natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
^ Bishop, Catherine (2021), Too much cabbage and Jesus Christ : Australia's 'mission girl' Annie Lock, Wakefield Press, ISBN 978-1-74305-857-2
^ "Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ". Wakefield Press. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
^ "Catherine Bishop". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2024-07-02.

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