Position: Research Editor
School and/or Centres: National Centre of Biography
Email: emily.gallagher@anu.edu.au
Location: Level 5, RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Cres
Qualification: Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts (History and Mathematics), University of Notre Dame (2015); Bachelor of Arts (Hons I), ANU (2016); Doctor of Philosophy, ANU (2023)
Emily Gallagher is an Australian historian and research editor in the National Centre of Biography. She initially trained as a teacher before completing her PhD in Australian History at the ANU, where she now works for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Emily’s research interests are wide-ranging, but her expertise is in the history of childhood and youth and folklore studies. Her PhD thesis was a history of the childhood imagination in Australia in the early decades of the twentieth century, and she is currently working on a book based on her doctoral research. Emily was also the founding editor of the ANU Historical Journal II (2017-19) and has reviewed for several literary magazines including the Times Literary Supplement, Inside Story, Honest History, The Monthly and Australian Book Review. She is currently the social media officer for the Children’s History Society and co-convenor of the Australasian Children’s History Reading Group. Her most recent journal article was published with the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2023).
history of childhood and youth; folklore studies; Australian history; biography
Peer-reviewed Publications
‘Hidden in Plain Sight: Child-authored Material in Australian Museums and Archives’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 16, no. 3 (2023), pp. 384-419, 0.1353/hcy.2023.a909987
‘McFadyen, Ella May (1887-1976)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography (2023), https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcfadyen-ella-may-27619
Emily Gallagher, Jessica Urwin & Madalyn Grant (eds.), ANU Historical Journal II, no. 1 (2019), 10.22459/ANUHJII.2019
‘Digging deep: playing at war in Australia, 1914-1939’, History Australia, vol.16, no. 1 (2019), pp. 169-189, 10.1080/14490854.2018.1558071
Academic Reviews
Emily Gallagher and Michelle Staff [Exhibition Review], ‘Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages, National Museum of Australia, Canberra’, Australian Historical Studies (forthcoming 2024).
[Book Review], ‘The Shelf Life of Zora Cross’, Journal of History and Biography, no. 5 (2021), pp. 259-64.
[Book Review], ‘Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between’, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 55, no. 4 (2020), pp. 109-11.
Emily Gallagher & Bruce Scates [Exhibition Review], ‘“Ardent for Some Desperate Glory”: Quick March: the children of World War One, exhibition hosted by the State Library of NSW, 16 March – 13 October 2019’, Australian Historical Studies, vol. 50, no. 4 (2019), 10.1080/1031461X.2019.1666697
Emily Gallagher and Camille Mahé, [Book Review],‘Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century’, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 12, no. 1 (2019), pp. 153-155, 10.1353/hcy.2019.0014
Emily Gallagher, [Book Review], ‘“The Right Thing to Read”: A History of Australian Girl-Readers, 1910–1960’, History of Education Review, vol. 47, no. 2 (2018), pp. 233-235, 10.1108/HER-10-2018-064
Selected Other
Frank Bongiorno and Emily Gallagher, ‘The kids aren’t alright: Have children been silenced and forgotten in Australia’s Covid response?’, Inside Story, 22 August 2021, https://insidestory.org.au/the-kids-arent-alright/
‘Singing with the wind: Sydney writer and naturalist Ella McFadyen combined a love of nature, folklore and poetry’, State Library of New South Wales Magazine (Spring 2020), pp. 38-41, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/5570_slmagspring20_web_new.pdf
‘What the folk? Whatever happened to the national folklife centre?’, The Conversation, 20 December 2018,http://theconversation.com/what-the-folk-whatever-happened-to-australias-national-folklife-centre-108678
‘The little people of NSW’s Firearms Act 1936’, Australian Policy History, 14 November 2017, http://aph.org.au/the-little-people-of-nsws-firearms-act-1936-2/
‘A love of the past’, The Monthly, 27 August 2017, https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/emily-gallagher/2017/27/2017/1503817990/love-past
‘Time-travelling Millennials’, Honest History, June 2017, http://honesthistory.net.au/wp/time-travelling-millennials-griffith-review-56/
Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history, Australian Historical Association, 2024
Children’s History Society
Society for the History of Childhood and Youth
Australian Folklore Network
Australian Historical Association
Gender Institute, ANU
HIST8011: Biography & History
HIST4011/8024: Advanced Historiography
HIST2110: Approaches to History
ECHI1006: The Australian Economy: Past and Present
EURO1004: Europe in the Modern Era
HIST2243: Vikings, Crusades, Mongols