Jane Carey

I am an award-wining historian of Australia and other British settler societies. I joined UOW in 2014. Previously I held a Monash Fellowship at Monash University and an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. My research ranges widely across histories of race, gender, science and reproduction from the mid-nineteenth century into the recent past, moving across Britain, New Zealand and North America as well as Australia. I have particular interests in whiteness, settler colonialism and biopolitics, and the history of eugenics. My work has also explored the place of Indigenous peoples in transnational history. I am the co-editor of numerous collections including Creating White Australia (2009), Reorienting Whiteness (2009), Indigenous Networks (2014) and Colonial Formations (2021). My most recent book, Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science (Monash University Publishing, 2023), won the 2025 Ernest Scott prize for history. Historical studies, Australian history, New Zealand history, British history, North American history, History of empires, imperialism and colonialism, Histories of race, Gender history, Transnational history, History of the pacific, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, language and history, Te hītori Māori (Māori history)