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Marian Quartly

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Marian Quartly(born 1942) is an Australian social historian.[1]She is professor emeritus in history atMonash University.

Early life and education[edit]

Marian Quartly is the daughter of Valma Jean (née Tyler) and metalworker Gordon Henry Quartly. She was born in 1942 inAdelaide,South Australia. She attended Blair Athol State School and thenWilderness School.In 1964 she completed a BA (Hons) at theUniversity of Adelaide.She moved to Melbourne, where she graduated with a PhD atMonash Universityin 1970.[2]

Career[edit]

Quartly's teaching career began atUniversiti Sains Malaysiawhere she lectured in historical method and Malay history. In 1975 she was appointed an Australian history tutor at theUniversity of Western Australia.From there she moved to Monash University as a lecturer in 1980 and remained there until she retired in 2006, being appointed professor emeritus. During her time at Monash she was Dean of Arts from 1994 to 1999.[2]

In 1994, she was awarded the Human Rights Non-Fiction Award forCreating a Nationjointly with co-authorsPatricia Grimshaw,Marilyn LakeandAnn McGrath.[3]

Marian Quartly Prize[edit]

In 2018 the Australian Historical Association (AHA) renamed its Taylor and Francis Prize the Marian Quartly Prize in recognition of Quartly's contribution as inaugural editor of its journal,History Australia.The prize is awarded for the best journal article published each calendar year.[4]

Winners include:[5]

  • 2017: Laura Rademaker (then the Taylor and Francis Prize)
  • 2018: Ben Silverstein
  • 2019: Frances Steel
  • 2020: Jeremy Martens
  • 2021: Jordana Silverstein
  • 2022: Nancy Cushing

Works[edit]

As author[edit]

  • Grimshaw, Patricia; Lake, Marilyn; McGrath, Ann; Quartly, Marian (1994).Creating a Nation.Ringwood, Vic., Australia: McPhee Gribble Publishers.ISBN0-86914-095-7.
  • Quartly, Marian; Swain, Shurlee; Cuthbert, Denise (November 2013),The market in babies: stories of Australian adoption,Monash University Publishing (published 2013),ISBN978-1-921867-86-6
  • Quartly, Marian;Smart, Judith(2015),Respectable radicals: a history of the National Council of Women Australia, 1896–2006,Monash University Publishing in conjunction with the National Council of Women of Australia,ISBN978-1-922235-94-7

As editor[edit]

  • Quartly, Marian, ed. (1979),Westralian voices: documents in Western Australian social history,University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations 1979,ISBN978-0-85564-158-0
  • Lake, Marilyn; Holmes, Katie; Grimshaw, Patricia; Janson, Susan; Quartly, Marian, eds. (1995),Documents on women in modern Australia,Allen & Unwin,ISBN978-1-86373-736-4

As contributor[edit]

  • Irving, Helen Dorothy; Irving, Helen (6 December 1999),The Centenary companion to Australian federation,Cambridge University Press (published 1999),ISBN978-0-521-57314-6

References[edit]

  1. ^"Quartly, Marian".The Australian Women's Register.Retrieved29 September2020.
  2. ^abSmart, Judith."Quartly, Marian".The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.Retrieved29 September2020.
  3. ^1994 Human Rights Medal and AwardsArchived7 June 2011 at theWayback MachineAustralian Human Rights Commission accessed 19 August 2011
  4. ^"Marian Quartly Prize".Australian Historical Association.Retrieved19 February2022.
  5. ^"Marian Quartly Prize – Previous Winners".Australian Historical Association.Retrieved19 February2022.