Margaret Ballinger
Scottish-South African activist, educator and writer
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Dr Edith Johnston
Irish historian and editor
Gwen Wilson
Gwen Wilson was the first woman to earn an Australian Postgraduate Diploma in Anaesthesia.
Guadalupe Curiel Defossé
Mexican researcher, professor, and historian.
Dr Nicole Giron
French-Mexican historian and literary scholar
Dorothy Durdin
Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999) is a nursing historian and as a nurse educator has contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector.
Jean Harslett
Australian historian, naturalist and environmentalist
Diana Dyason
Diana Dyason was Reader in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne 1965-1984 and Head of Department 1965-1974.
Lydia Parrish
In the 1950’s, Lydia Parrish made recordings of traditional songs of the Gullah Geechee culture that are now part of the Margaret Davis Cate Collection at Fort Frederica National Monument.
Helen Matthews Lewis
In her dual role as academic and social activist, Lewis helped found the discipline of Appalachian Studies and served for several decades as one of its most influential leaders.