Catharine Coleborne
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Catharine Coleborne | |
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Born | 27 October 1967 |
Occupation | academic |
Employer | University of Newcastle |
Known for | studying madness |
Catharine Coleborne (born October 27, 1967) is an Australian medical historian and academic administrator. She is the Head of School and Dean of Arts at the University of Newcastle and a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Life[]
Coleborne was born in 1967. She took her first degree at the University of Melbourne before going on to study "Madness" to gain a doctorate from La Trobe University in Melbourne. She looked at gender and institutional confinement for the mentally ill during the nineteenth-century when Australia was part of the British Empire.[1]
Coleborne has continued to study madness and she has published books and papers on her research.[2]
She has published four books as sole author including Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914 in 2009 when she was an Associate Professor at Waikato University.[3]
In 2015 she became the Head of School and Dean of Arts, University of Newcastle.[1] She was elected to be a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2021 together with 36 others including David Kalisch, Nisvan Erkal and Lyn Parker in 2021[4] In that year she was also the President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts and Social Sciences (DASSH) and she was a keynote speaker at the National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services National Conference.[5]
Publications[]
- Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914
References[]
- ^ a b "Staff Profile". www.newcastle.edu.au. 2015-01-16. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ "sg:person.0606671704.29 - Springer Nature SciGraph". scigraph.springernature.com. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ Coleborne, C. (2009-11-18). Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-24864-9.
- ^ "37 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- ^ "Professor Catharine Coleborne". www.nagcas.org.au. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
- 1967 births
- Living people
- La Trobe University alumni
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- University of Newcastle (Australia) faculty
- Australian medical historians