Fiona Paisley

{{short description|Scottish-born Australian cultural historian}}

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| birth_place = Aberdeen, Scotland

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| alma_mater = Monash University (BA, DipEd)
University of Melbourne (MEd)
La Trobe University (PhD)

| thesis_title = Ideas have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920–1937

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| doctoral_advisor = Marilyn Lake

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| discipline = History

| sub_discipline = Women's history
cultural history
transnational history

| workplaces = Griffith University

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Fiona Kerr Paisley {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA|FAHA}} (born 1958) is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Fiona Paisley |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=1003 |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}

Paisley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1958.{{Cite web|title=Paisley, Fiona|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE5258b.htm|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Australian Women's Register|language=en-gb}} During her childhood she moved with her family between Scotland and Australia. She settled in Melbourne where she completed a BA and DipEd at Monash University and then worked as a high school teacher, before studying for a MEd at the University of Melbourne. She then undertook a PhD at La Trobe University, successfully submitting her thesis, "Ideas Have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920-1937", which was supervised by Marilyn Lake.{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Sharon M.|title=Paisley, Fiona|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0612b.htm|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb}}

Honours and recognition

Paisley won the 2014 Magarey Medal for Biography for The Lone Protestor.{{Cite web|title=Magarey Medal – Previous Winners|url=https://www.theaha.org.au/awards-and-prizes/magarey-medal-for-biography/magarey-medal-previous-winners/|access-date=2020-10-10|website=The Australian Historical Association|language=en-AU}}

She was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2016{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Fiona Paisley FASSA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9PuAAI|access-date=2020-10-10|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-US}} and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.

Selected works

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  • {{Citation|author1=Paisley|first=Fiona|title=Loving protection? : Australian feminism and Aboriginal women's rights, 1919-1939|year=2000|publication-date=2000|publisher=Melbourne University Press|isbn=978-0-522-84919-6}}
  • {{Citation|author1=Paisley|first=Fiona|title=Glamour in the Pacific : cultural internationalism and race politics in the women's Pan-Pacific|year=2009 |publication-date=2009|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-1-4416-2019-4}}
  • {{Citation|author1=Paisley|first=Fiona|title=The lone protestor : A M Fernando in Australia and Europe|year=2012|publication-date=2012|publisher=Aboriginal Studies Press|isbn=978-1-922059-05-5}}
  • {{Citation|title=Critical perspectives on colonialism : writing the empire from below|year=2014|publication-date=2014|editor-last=Paisley|editor-first=Fiona|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-53738-4|editor2-last=Reid|editor2-first=Kirsty}}
  • {{Cite book|last1=Haggis|first1=Jane|title=Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, cross-cultural and transnational networks, 1860-1950|last2=Midgley|first2=Clare|last3=Allen|first3=Margaret|last4=Paisley|first4=Fiona|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2017|isbn=978-3-319-52748-2|location=Cham, Switzerland}}
  • {{Citation|last1=Paisley|first1=Fiona|title=Writing transnational history|publication-date=2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc|isbn=978-1-4742-6398-6|last2=Scully|first2=Pamela|date=19 September 2019}}

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