Dr Karen Fox

Senior Academic Research Editor, National Centre of Biography, School of History

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20052024

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Biography

Karen Fox is a senior academic research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the National Centre of Biography in the School of History. Karen joined the NCB in 2011, after completing her PhD at the Australian National University and her MA at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her PhD thesis was a study of the shifting ways in which ideas about race, gender, and nation were reflected and constructed in print media depictions of prominent Aboriginal and Maori women during the second half of the twentieth century.

Karen’s research interests include Australian and New Zealand history, imperial and colonial history, gender and feminist history, media history, the history of fame and celebrity, historical reputations, and biography and life writing. She has taught Australian and imperial history and biography at the Australian National University, and her research has appeared in national and international journals, including the Australian Journal of Politics and History, the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, History Australia, and the Women’s History Review. Her most recent book is Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia's Honours System (ANU Press, 2022). She is currently researching the making and unmaking of historical reputations and the history of fame and celebrity in Australia.

Current teaching (2024):

HIST8011 Biography and History (member of teaching team)

Qualifications

BA (Hons), MA (Canterbury); PhD (ANU)

Research Interests

Karen's research and supervision interests include:

  • famous lives, reputations, and biographies;
  • the history of fame, celebrity, and heroism;
  • media and cultural history, especially about representations of gender and race; 
  • women’s, gender, and feminist history;
  • comparative and transnational history of settler societies, particularly Australia and New Zealand; 
  • political and legal history, particularly relating to issues of gender and race; 
  • cross-cultural encounters, colonialism, and imperialism; 
  • nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australian and New Zealand history.

Research student supervision

  • Registered to supervise

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