Full name Clare Alice Wright Role Historian | Name Clare Wright | |
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Thesis Beyond the Ladies Lounge: A History of Female Publicans in Victoria, 1875–1945 (2002) Major works The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (2013) Books The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka Alma mater | ||
Historian Dr Clare Wright on Voting Rights
Clare Alice Wright (born 14 May 1969) is an American Australian historian, author and broadcaster. She is an associate professor in history at La Trobe University, and was the winner of the 2014 Stella Prize.
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- Historian Dr Clare Wright on Voting Rights
- Clare wright on australian history
- Career
- Books
- Personal life
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Clare wright on australian history
Career
Wright holds a BA (Hons) in history from the University of Melbourne (1991), an MA in public history from Monash University (1993) and a PhD in Australian studies from the University of Melbourne (2002). From 2004 to 2009, she was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at La Trobe University. She was the executive officer of the History Council of Victoria from 2003 to 2004. Wright worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant, and radio and television broadcaster.
She is the author of a number of books which garnered both critical and popular acclaim. Her second book, The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka, took her ten years to research and write. It won the 2014 Stella Prize and 2014 Nib Waverley Library Award for Literature, as well as being shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Queensland Literary Awards, NSW Premier's History Prize, the WA Premier's Book Awards and the Victorian Community History Awards and was longlisted for a Walkely Award. In 2015, Wright published We Are the Rebels, a revised edition of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka for Young Adult readers. We Are the Rebels was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Eve Pownall Award for Information Books.
In 2012 Wright researched, wrote and presented the television history documentary Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote, which was broadcast on ABC1. Utopia Girls was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards for Best Multimedia History. She developed, co-wrote and appears in the four-part docudrama series The War That Changed Us, which was first broadcast on ABC1 in August 2014 to commemorate the centenary of World War I. The War That Changed Us won an ATOM Award for Best Documentary and was nominated for a Logie for Most Outstanding Factual Program.
Wright has appeared as an expert interviewee in many other television history documentaries, including Dirty Business: How Mining Made Australia (SBS), The Royal Wreck of Gold (Foxtel) and Bodyline: The Ultimate Challenge (ABC1).
In 2016, Wright won the Alice Literary Award, presented by the Australian Society for Women Writers, for 'distinguished and long-term contribution to literature by an Australian woman'.
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Personal life
Wright was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1969. She migrated to Australia in 1974 with her mother. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, furniture designer and craftsman Damien Wright, and their three children.