Core expertise

Contemporary Australian history
Women's political history
Women's activism

Biography

Hannah is researching Australian women’s anti-nuclear activism from 1945 to the 1970s. Her expertise is in contemporary Australian history, and her recent work has stretched from Melbourne’s penal history in the late 19th century to women’s political activism in the mid-20th century.
Hannah is interested in women’s political history, and how Australian women engaged in the tumultuous political climate of the Cold War. She's particularly fascinated by expressions of women’s political interests in the decades before the second-wave feminist movement publicly challenged gender expectations in the 1970s.