Judith Margaret Brett | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75)
Melbourne, Australia |
Awards |
Ernest Scott Prize (1993, 2004) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
University of Melbourne (BA) (PhD) University of Oxford (DipSocAnth) |
Thesis | The Milk of Language: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Crisis (1980) |
Influences | Dennis Altman [1] |
Academic work | |
Institutions | La Trobe University (1989-2012) |
Main interests | Cultural history, political history |
Notable works | Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) |
Judith Margaret Brett AM (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. [2] [3] She retired from La Trobe in 2012, after a restructuring of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in which the School of which she was head was dismantled. [4]
Her PhD from Melbourne University’s Politics Department in the 1970s was on Austrian fin-de-siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. [5]
Brett's 2017 biography of Alfred Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award. [6] Her next book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting, [7] was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. [8]
Brett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours. [9]
Judith Margaret Brett | |
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Born | 1949 (age 74–75)
Melbourne, Australia |
Awards |
Ernest Scott Prize (1993, 2004) Member of the Order of Australia (2023) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
University of Melbourne (BA) (PhD) University of Oxford (DipSocAnth) |
Thesis | The Milk of Language: A Psycho-Analytic Interpretation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Chandos Crisis (1980) |
Influences | Dennis Altman [1] |
Academic work | |
Institutions | La Trobe University (1989-2012) |
Main interests | Cultural history, political history |
Notable works | Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class (2003) Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (1992) |
Judith Margaret Brett AM (born 1949, Melbourne) is an Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. [2] [3] She retired from La Trobe in 2012, after a restructuring of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in which the School of which she was head was dismantled. [4]
Her PhD from Melbourne University’s Politics Department in the 1970s was on Austrian fin-de-siècle poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal. [5]
Brett's 2017 biography of Alfred Deakin won the 2018 National Biography Award. [6] Her next book, From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia got Compulsory Voting, [7] was shortlisted for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. [8]
Brett was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2023 Australia Day Honours. [9]