Michelle Arrow

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| workplaces = Macquarie University

| alma_mater = University of Sydney (BA [Hons])
University of Sydney (Ph.D)

| thesis_title = Written Into History : a social and cultural history of Australian women playwrights, 1928-1968

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| thesis_year = 1999

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| main_interests = cultural history, social history, political history

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| major_works = The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia (2019)
Friday on our minds : popular culture in Australia since 1945 (2009)

| awards = Ernest Scott Prize (2020)
John Barrett Award (2023)
NSW Premier's Digital History Prize (2014)

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Michelle Arrow {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|FASSA}} is an Australian historian, academic and author who is currently a Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for her work on Australia in the 1970s. Arrow won the Ernest Scott Prize in 2020 for The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Arrow is the Vice-President of the Australian Historical Association.{{Cite web |title=Executive Committee: 2022–24 Executive Committee |url=https://theaha.org.au/about-the-aha/executive-committee/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=The Australian Historical Association |language=en-AU}}

Early life and education

Arrow graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (hons) and received her PhD in history from the same university in 1999. Her thesis was a social and cultural history of Australian women playwrights between 1928 and 1968, including Gwen Meredith.Michelle Arrow, Written into history : a social and cultural history of Australian women playwrights, 1928-1968, University of Sydney, Fisher Library Rare Books and Special Collections, identifier: OCLC: (OCoLC)222562800

Academic career

Arrow's first academic work was an article in the Journal of Australian Studies in 1998. Her first book, Upstaged : Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last, was published in 2002. It expanded on the work undertaken for her doctoral thesis. Upstaged discusses Australia's largely forgotten women playwrights, demonstrating their popularity and political importance.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-28 |title=Animal Farm in the age of Trump |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-stage-show/animal-farm-van-badham-australian-women-playwrights-tony-awards/13555056 |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=ABC Radio National |language=en-AU}}{{Cite web |last=Arrow |first=Michelle |date=2003-07-24 |title='Scarlet woman' put us centre stage |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/scarlet-woman-put-us-centre-stage-20030724-gdh5ep.html |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Arrow |first=Michelle |date=2006-10-11 |title=Mistress of hearts and airwaves |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/mistress-of-hearts-and-airwaves-20061011-gdokke.html |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}} In the early 2000s Arrow was an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television presenter, including the "failed ABC TV history experiment, Rewind."{{Cite web |last= |date=2009-01-21 |title=Still looking for a winner from the history wars of 2007 |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/22/still-looking-for-a-winner-from-the-history-wars-of-2007/ |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Crikey |language=en-US}}

From 2008 to 2012, Arrow was one of the five members of the advisory panel for the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, serving alongside John Hirst, Joan Beaumont and Geoffrey Blainey. In 2009, her second book Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945 was published. It was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize.2010 NSW Premier’s History Awards Shortlist and judges’ citations, Government of New South Wales, https://www.create.nsw.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/2010-PHA-shortlist-for-Web.pdf

In 2014, Arrow and her colleagues won the NSW Premier's Digital History Prize for their 2013 radio documentary Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships, discussing the three commissioners (Anne Deveson, Elizabeth Evatt, and Felix Arnott), the commission and its findings. This documentary was funded by the 2012 Frederick Watson Fellowship.{{Cite web |date=2013-04-28 |title=Public Intimacies: The Royal Commission on Human Relationships |url=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/hindsight/public-intimacies3a-the-royal-commission-on-human-relationships/4646926 |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=ABC Radio National |language=en-AU}}

In 2019, Arrow's third book was published, The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. The book was awarded the Ernest Scott Prize in 2020.{{Cite web |last=Lemmon |first=Justin |date=2020-05-07 |title=Professor Michelle Arrow awarded 2020 Ernest Scott Prize |url=https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/past-news/dr-michelle-arrow-awarded-2020-ernest-scott-prize |access-date=2023-01-17 |website=Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne |language=en}}

Arrow was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2023.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-08 |title=The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia welcomes 21 new Fellows |url=https://socialsciences.org.au/news/celebrating-excellence-21-new-fellows-inducted-into-the-academy-of-the-social-sciences-in-australia/ |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |language=en-AU}}

Bibliography

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{{cite book|last=Arrow|first=Michelle|title=Upstaged: Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last|year=2003|publisher=Currency Press|location=Strawberry Hills, New South Wales|isbn=0868196908|author-mask=1}}
{{cite book|last=Arrow|first=Michelle|title=Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945|year=2009|publisher=UNSW Press|location=Sydney|isbn=9780868406626|author-mask=1}}
{{cite book|last=Arrow|first=Michelle|title=The Seventies: The personal, the political and the making of modern Australia|year=2019|publisher=UNSW Press|location=Sydney|isbn=9781742234700|author-mask=1}}

References

Category:Living people

Category:Australian historians

Category:Historians of Australia

Category:University of Sydney alumni

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia