Janet McCalman

Janet McCalman
Born (1948-12-05) 5 December 1948 (age 75)
AwardsVictorian Premier's Award for Australian Studies (1984)
Ernest Scott Prize (1985, 2022)
Max Crawford Medal (1992)
The Age Book of the Year (1993)
The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year (1993)
NSW Premier's History Awards in Community and Regional History (1999)
Victorian Community and Local History Award (1999)
Centenary Medal (2001)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (BA [Hons])
Australian National University (PhD)
ThesisRespectability and Working-Class Radicalism in Victorian London: 1850–1890: A Contribution to the Debate (1975)
Doctoral advisorF. B. Smith
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineClass history
Gender history
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Janet Susan McCalman, AC, FAHA, FASSA (born 5 December 1948) is an Australian social historian, population researcher and author at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne.[1][2] McCalman won the Ernest Scott Prize in 1985 and 2022 (shared); the second woman to have won and one of eight historians to have won the prize twice.[3]

  1. ^ Harrison, Sharon M. "McCalman, Janet Susan (1948 – )". The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in the Twentieth-Century. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Prof Janet McCalman". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
  3. ^ Sekuless, Emma (20 May 2022). "Ernest Scott Prize". Scholarships, University of Melbourne. Retrieved 8 October 2022.