Patricia Grimshaw

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| birth_name = Patricia Ann Grimshaw

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| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand

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| workplaces = University of Melbourne (1977–2006)

| alma_mater = University of Auckland (BA(Hons), MA)
University of Melbourne (PhD)

| thesis_title = Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Early Nineteenth Century Hawaii

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| main_interests = History of women
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| major_works = Women's Suffrage in New Zealand

| awards = Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1992)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1997)
Officer of the Order of Australia (2017)

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Patricia Ann Grimshaw, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AO|FASSA|FAHA}} (born 16 December 1938) is a retired Australian academic who specialised in women's and Indigenous peoples' history. One of her most influential works is Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, first published in 1972, which is considered the definitive work on the story of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote.

Background, education and early career

Grimshaw was born on 16 December 1938, to a working-class family in Auckland, New Zealand.{{Cite web|title = Grimshaw, Patricia Ann |url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0267b.htm|website = The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia | publisher=Australian Women's Archives Project 2014 | access-date =16 December 2015 |first1 = Susan | last1=Foley | first2=Charles | last2=Sowerwine}} She studied at the University of Auckland, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and a Master of Arts (MA) in 1963. Her MA thesis on women's suffrage was later published as Women's Suffrage in New Zealand in 1972, and republished in 1975 and 1987.{{Cite web|title = Library search |url = http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma21190957740002091 |publisher = University of Auckland |access-date =18 December 2015}} The book became a best-seller in New Zealand in 1972,{{Cite journal |url = http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1973/NZJH_07_2_10.pdf |title = Review of Women's Suffrage in New Zealand |last = Dalziel |first = Raewyn |date = 1973 |journal = New Zealand Journal of History |access-date = 16 December 2015}} and continues to be regarded as the definitive work on the story of the New Zealand women's suffrage campaign.{{Cite web |title = Women's Suffrage in New Zealand by Patricia Grimshaw |url = https://www.questia.com/library/3040798/women-s-suffrage-in-new-zealand |website = |access-date = 16 December 2015 |archive-date = 15 September 2018 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180915122206/https://www.questia.com/library/3040798/women-s-suffrage-in-new-zealand |url-status = dead }}{{ISBN?}}

In 1965, Grimshaw and her husband moved to Melbourne and Grimshaw began her doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne with Greg Dening and Inga Clendinnen. She completed her PhD in 1987, and two years later published her thesis as Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii. This work was the first to consider wives of missionaries as active participants in the colonisation process.

Career

In 1977, Grimshaw joined the Department of History at the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in women's history. Two years later she began teaching a course on women's history, which then developed into a centre for women's history. During her career she supervised approximately one hundred thesis writers in women's history, and then engaged her students in collaborative research after they had graduated, thus substantially expanding the field of women's history.

In 1992, Grimshaw became a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and, in 1997, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.{{Cite web|title = Prof Patricia Grimshaw | url = http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person12634#tab-Awards|publisher = University of Melbourne |access-date = 16 December 2015}} From 1995 to 2000, Grimshaw was president of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, an organisation that she had co-founded.{{Cite web|title = Women's rights and human rights: about the author |url = http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/women's-rights-and-human-rights-patricia-grimshaw/?sf1=barcode&st1=9780230562752|publisher = Palgrave Macmillan|access-date = 16 December 2015}}

In 1993, Grimshaw was named Max Crawford Professor of History and held this position until her retirement in 2006.

In 2003, she was president of the editorial board of the leading historical journal Australian Historical Studies, with Joy Damousi as editor.{{Cite journal|date=1 April 2003|title=Editorial board|journal=Australian Historical Studies| volume=34| issue=121| pages=ebi |doi=10.1080/10314610308596232|s2cid=218621719| issn=1031-461X}}

Since her retirement, {{as of|lc=yes|2015}} she holds the title Emeritus Professor of History, and continues to work on historical projects such as The Australian Women's Register, and to deliver lectures at community events such as International Women's Day.{{Cite web|title = Women at war in the archives – a seminar at PROV featuring Janet Butler and Patricia Grimshaw |url = http://www.womenaustralia.info/blog/2015/02/23/women-at-war-in-the-archives-a-seminar-at-prov-featuring-janet-butler-and-patricia-grimshaw/|website = Australian Women's Register Blog | access-date = 16 December 2015}} From 2006 to 2010, she was a member of the Committee of the National Foundation for Australian Women.

Awards

File:University of Melbourne Award Bronze Plaque Patricia Grimshaw.jpg

In March 2008, Grimshaw was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, for pioneering women’s history.{{Cite web |date= |title=Patricia Grimshaw AO |url=https://www.vic.gov.au/patricia-grimshaw-ao |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=State Government of Victoria |language=en-au}}

In 2017 Grimshaw was awarded the University of Melbourne Award, which "recognises those individuals who have made an outstanding and enduring contribution to the University and its scholarly community".{{cite web | title=University Awards | website=University of Melbourne Awards: Our History | url=http://our-history.unimelb.edu.au/exhibitions/university-awards/ | access-date=17 September 2020}}{{cite web |author=University of Melbourne |date=2017 |title=2017 Recipients of the University of Melbourne Award |url=https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/hdp.au.prod.app.um-ourcampus.files/8015/1201/9560/University_Awards_2017.pdf |page=7}} A bronze plaque honouring her is on the wall along the Professors' Walk at the Parkville campus of the university.

In 2017 Grimshaw was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the social sciences and to the humanities through researching, documenting and preserving Australian history, and the roles of women in society.{{cite web |url=http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |title=Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia |work=Australia Day 2017 Honours List |publisher=Governor-General of Australia |date=26 January 2017 |access-date=27 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171125025437/http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/honours/ad/ad2017/slkh83xzcb/AO%20Final%20Media%20Notes.pdf |archive-date=25 November 2017 |url-status=dead }}

Legacy

The Patricia Grimshaw Awards for Mentor Excellence are awarded annually to staff at the University of Melbourne to recognise mentoring skills and behaviours.{{Cite web|title = Associate Professor Lesley Stirling wins Patricia Grimshaw Award for Mentor Excellence|url = http://languages-linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/news/associate-professor-lesley-stirling-wins-patricia-grimshaw-award-mentor-excellence|publisher = University of Melbourne|date = 16 December 2015|access-date = 16 December 2015}} It was launched by the university in March 2008 "to honour her contribution as a mentor of postgraduate students and younger colleagues".

References

External links

{{official|https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/12634-patricia-grimshaw|Prof Patricia Grimshaw, Honorary, Historical And Philosophical Studies}} University of Melbourne page

Category:1938 births

Category:20th-century New Zealand people

Category:Australian historians

Category:Australian women historians

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Category:New Zealand emigrants to Australia

Category:New Zealand feminists

Category:Officers of the Order of Australia

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