Cassandra Pybus
| Cassandra Pybus | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Cassandra Jean Pybus 29 September 1947 Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Occupation | Historian, biographer, academic |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | North Sydney Girls High School |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Notable awards | Colin Roderick Award (1993) |
Cassandra Jean Pybus (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a professor of history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.[1]
Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney.[2] Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.[3]
From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island. She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving an relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania.[4] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.[5]
Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.[6]
Books
- Other Middle Passages (edited with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher; 2007)
- Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006)
- Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (2006)
- The Woman who Walked to Russia: A writer's search for a lost legend (2004)
- American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony, 1839–1850 (with Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; 2002)
- Raven Road (2001)
- The Devil and James McAuley (1999)
- Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree (1998)
- White Rajah: A Dynastic Intrigue (1996)
- Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered (1993)
- Community of Thieves (1991)
References
- ↑ "Professor Cassandra Pybus". Department of History. University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "Who's Who in Australia". ConnectWeb.
- ↑ "Betty Jean Vyvyan Pybus OAM". Honour Roll of Women. Government of Tasmania. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "Colin Roderick Award". James Cook University. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "Tasmania: The Tipping Point?". University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ↑ "PYBUS, Cassandra". It's an Honour. Australian Government. Retrieved 25 April 2016.