Dr Gemma Betros

Gemma Betros completed a Bachelor of Arts in French and History (First-Class Honours) at the University of Queensland, and an M.Phil and PhD in History at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse). Funding included a Commonwealth Scholarship, a Peterhouse Research Studentship, and a Lightfoot Scholarship. She has held academic posts at the University of Leeds (2007-08), the Harvard Divinity School (2012-13), and The Australian National University (2009-20), where she was awarded the 2016 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education. Her research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in early modern and modern France.  

BA in French and History (Hons), University of Queensland. M.Phil and PhD in History, University of Cambridge

• The history of convents and women religious (nuns)
• The history of Paris and its monuments
• The French Revolution
• Napoleon and Napoleonic Europe
• Diaries and letter-writing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France 
• Theatre, literature, and translation in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century France and Europe
• The novelist Adélaïde de Souza (1761-1836)
• Religion in early modern and modern Europe 
• Gender and women's history