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Fiona Kerr Paisley 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.

Paisley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1958. 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.

Honours and recognition

Paisley won the 2014 Magarey Medal for Biography for The Lone Protestor.

She was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2016 and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.

Selected works

• Paisley, Fiona (2000), Loving protection? : Australian feminism and Aboriginal women's rights, 1919-1939, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-84919-6
• Paisley, Fiona (2009), Glamour in the Pacific : cultural internationalism and race politics in the women's Pan-Pacific, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 978-1-4416-2019-4
• Paisley, Fiona (2012), The lone protestor : A M Fernando in Australia and Europe, Aboriginal Studies Press, ISBN 978-1-922059-05-5
• Paisley, Fiona; Reid, Kirsty, eds. (2014), Critical perspectives on colonialism : writing the empire from below, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-53738-4
• Haggis, Jane; Midgley, Clare; Allen, Margaret; Paisley, Fiona (2017). Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, cross-cultural and transnational networks, 1860-1950. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-52748-2.
• Paisley, Fiona; Scully, Pamela (19 September 2019), Writing transnational history, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-4742-6398-6

References

1. ^ "Fellow Profile: Fiona Paisley". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
2. "Paisley, Fiona". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
3. Harrison, Sharon M. "Paisley, Fiona". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
4. "Magarey Medal – Previous Winners". The Australian Historical Association. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
5. "Academy Fellow: Professor Fiona Paisley FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 10 October 2020.

External links

• The story of AM Fernando — Fiona Paisley talks to Phillip Adams about her book

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