Jeannine Baker

This article is about the historian. For the children's book author and artist, seeJeannie Baker.

Jeannine Bakeris an Australian historian. She specialises in women's, labour and media history and is a research fellow atMacquarie University,Sydney.

Life

Baker completed a BA in Mass Communications from Macquarie University and an MA in Public History at theUniversity of Technology,Sydney. She completed a PhD in Australian history at theUniversity of Melbournein 2014. Her thesis, on Australian women war reporters during World War II, was later published asAustralian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam.

Baker has also worked as an oral history interviewer and made historical documentaries includingOur Drowned Town(SBS TV, 2001) about the flooding of the New South Wales town ofAdaminabyfor theSnowy Mountains SchemeandHolding a Tiger by the Tail: Jessie Litchfield(Earshot, ABC Radio National, 2015), about the Darwin newspaper editor and journalistJessie Litchfield.

Jeannine Baker was a recipient of theInternational Federation of Television ArchivesMedia 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
• Arrow M, Baker J, and Monagle C (eds),Small Screens: Essays in Contemporary Australian Television.Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2016.