School of History excelled at ANU 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!