Catharine Coleborne
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Catharine Coleborne | |
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| Occupation | academic |
| Employer | University of Newcastle |
| Known for | studying madness |
Catharine Coleborne is an Australian medical historian and academic administrator. She was the Head of School and Dean of Arts at the University of Newcastle (2015 to 2022) and is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Society of New South Wales.[1]
Life
[edit]Coleborne was born in 1967. She took her first degree at the University of Melbourne before going on to study "Madness" to gain a doctorate from La Trobe University in Melbourne. She looked at gender and institutional confinement for the mentally ill during the nineteenth-century when Australia was part of the British Empire.[2]
Coleborne has continued to study madness and she has published books and papers on her research.[3]
She has published four books as sole author including Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914 in 2009 when she was an Associate Professor at Waikato University.[4]
In 2015 she became the Head of School and Dean of Arts, University of Newcastle.[2] She was elected to be a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2021 together with 36 others including David Kalisch, Nisvan Erkal and Lyn Parker in 2021[5] In that year she was also the President of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts and Social Sciences (DASSH) and she was a keynote speaker at the National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services National Conference.[6]
Coleborne was awarded a research fellowship by the National Library of Australia in 2025.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914
- Coleborne, Catharine; MacKinnon, Dolly (2011). Exhibiting madness in museums: remembering psychiatry through collections and display. Routledge research in museum studies. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-80710-1.
- Coleborne, Catharine (1 October 2015). Insanity, Identity and Empire. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8724-0.
References
[edit]- ^ "Fellow Profile – Catharine Coleborne". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Staff Profile". www.newcastle.edu.au. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "sg:person.0606671704.29 - Springer Nature SciGraph". scigraph.springernature.com. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ Coleborne, C. (18 November 2009). Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860–1914. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-24864-9.
- ^ "37 Leading Social Scientists elected as Academy Fellows". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 8 November 2021. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Professor Catharine Coleborne". www.nagcas.org.au. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "NLA announces 2025 Fellows". Books+Publishing. 15 January 2025. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
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