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HomeNewsSchool of History Excelled At ANU Gender Institute Awards
School of History excelled at ANU Gender Institute Awards
Zoe Smith and Ruby Ekkel Gender Institute Awards

Zoe Smith and Ruby Ekkel. Photo courtesy Michelle Staff.

Friday 15 August 2025

On August 4 the ANU Gender Institute held its awards event, where the School of History was well represented:

  • Ruby Ekkel won the prize for the best journal article The Meaning of a Bushwalk with the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club, 1922-1945,
  • Zoe Smith was highly recommended in the same category for “A Prisoner on the Rack”: Marital Rape, Consent and the Gothic in Late 19th-century Colonial Women’s Writings.
  • Ashley Price was joint winner in the Honours Thesis category for her work: Nymphs in Muslin: Women’s Wandering and Embodiment of Classical Antiquity in Britain, c. 1780-1820.

The awards were presented by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Joan Leach, at the China in the World Auditorium. The event featured a showcase of the ANU Gender Institute grants projects and the 2024 prize-winners' research.

 Congratulations!

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Ashley Price presenting her thesis