Dr. Michelle Arrow

Biography

Michelle Arrow is an Australian historian specializing in cultural history, popular culture, and the women's movement. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1999, focusing on the social and cultural history of Australia’s leading women playwrights, published as 'Upstaged: Australian Women Playwrights' in 2002, which was shortlisted for five national prizes in 2003. In 2001, she held the NSW History Fellowship, researching the history of ABC radio serials 'Blue Hills'. The following year, she presented the ABC TV series 'Rewind'. Michelle received the ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2010. From 2008 to 2012, she served on the advisory panel for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History. Her book 'Friday Minds: Popular Culture in Australia 1945' was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize in 2010. In 2014, she won the NSW Premiers' Multimedia History Prize for a radio documentary titled 'Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships'. Her book 'The Seventies: Personal, Political and the Making of Modern Australia', published in 2019, won the Ernest Scott Prize for Australian History in 2020. Michelle focuses on how culture constructs and represents individual and national identities in response to social and political change, with publications in various prestigious journals.

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