Janet McCalman
Janet McCalman | |
|---|---|
| Born | 5 December 1948 |
| Awards | Victorian Premier's Award for Australian Studies (1984) Ernest Scott Prize (1985, 2022) Max Crawford Medal (1992) The Age Book of the Year (1993) The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year (1993) NSW Premier's History Awards in Community and Regional History (1999) Victorian Community and Local History Award (1999) Centenary Medal (2001) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA [Hons]) Australian National University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Respectability and Working-Class Radicalism in Victorian London: 1850–1890: A Contribution to the Debate (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | F. B. Smith |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Class history Gender history |
| Institutions | University of Melbourne |
Janet Susan McCalman, AC, FAHA, FASSA (born 5 December 1948) is an Australian social historian, population researcher and author at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. McCalman won the Ernest Scott Prize in 1985 and 2022 (shared); the second woman to have won and one of eight historians to have won the prize twice.