Kay Saunders
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| birth_name = Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| nationality = Australian
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| alma_mater = University of Queensland
| thesis_title = Uncertain bondage: an analysis of indentured labour in Queensland to 1907: with particular reference to the Melanesian servants
| thesis_url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:376591
| thesis_year = 1975
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Kay Elizabeth Bass Saunders {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|FASSA}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (born 1947) is an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland.
Earlyl life and education
Saunders was born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1947.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE5297b.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-26|website=The Australian Women's Register|language=en-gb}} She graduated with a BA (1970) and PhD (1975) from the University of Queensland (UQ).{{Cite web|last=Harrison|first=Sharon M.|date=|title=Saunders, Kay Elizabeth Bass|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0729b.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-26|website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|language=en-gb}}
Career
Honours and recognition
Saunders was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999,{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Dr Kay Elizabeth Bass SAUNDERS|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/872268|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-26|website=It's An Honour}} and was promoted to Officer in the 2021 Australia Day Honours for "distinguished service to tertiary education, particularly to history, as an academic and author, to professional associations, and to the community".{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Emeritus Professor Kay Elizabeth SAUNDERS AM|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2007945|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-26|website=It's An Honour}}
Selected works
- {{Citation|author1=Saunders|first=Kay|title=Workers in bondage: The origins and bases of unfree labour in Queensland, 1824-1916|url=|volume=|pages=|publication-date=1982-01-01|publisher=University of Queensland Press}}
- {{Citation|last1=McGrath|first1=Ann |author1-link= Ann McGrath|title=Aboriginal Workers|publication-date=1995|publisher=Australian Society for the Study of Labour History|isbn=978-0-909944-04-9|last2=Saunders|first2=Kay|last3=Huggins|first3=Jackie |author3-link =Jackie Huggins|year=1995}} ([https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/history-of-indigenous-work-sheds-light-on-australian-slavery Reissued in 2020].{{cite web | title=Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History | website=Liverpool University Press | date=30 November 2020 | url=http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54770/ | access-date=6 January 2022 | archive-date=23 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123010045/https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54770/ | url-status=dead }})
- {{Citation|author1=|first=|title=Alien justice: Wartime internment in Australia and North America|volume=|pages=|publication-date=2000|editor-last=Saunders|editor-first=Kay|publisher=University of Queensland Press|isbn=978-0-7022-2991-6|editor2-last=Daniels|editor2-first=Roger}}
- {{Citation|author1=Saunders|first=Kay|title=Notorious Australian women|volume=|pages=|publication-date=2011|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|isbn=978-0-7333-2832-9}}
- {{Citation|author1=Saunders, Kay|title=Deadly Australian women|publication-date=2013|publisher=HarperCollins Publishers|isbn=978-0-7304-9375-4}}
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