Jeannine Baker is an Australian historian. She specialises in women's, labour and media history and is a research fellow at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

, Sydney.

Life

Baker completed a BA in Mass Communications from Macquarie University and an MA in Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney. She completed a PhD in Australian history at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

in 2014. Her thesis, on Australian women war reporters during World War II, was later published as ''Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam.'' Baker has also worked as an oral history interviewer and made historical documentaries including ''Our Drowned Town'' (SBS TV, 2001) about the flooding of the New South Wales town of

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for the Snowy Mountains Scheme and ''Holding a Tiger by the Tail: Jessie Litchfield'' (Earshot, ABC Radio National, 2015), about the Darwin newspaper editor and journalist

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. Jeannine Baker was a recipient of the

International Federation of Television Archives The Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision - International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT/IFTA) is a worldwide association of institutions, commercial companies and individuals managing or with a special interest in a ...

Media Studies Grant in 2021, which she used to conduct research and publish about the role of women in early Australian television production.

Publications

* Baker, J. ''Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam''. Sydney: NewSouth, 2015 * Arrow M, Baker J, and Monagle C (eds), ''Small Screens: Essays in Contemporary Australian Television''. Melbourne: Monash University Press, 2016.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Jeannine Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of Macquarie University 21st-century Australian historians Macquarie University alumni University of Melbourne alumni University of Technology Sydney alumni Oral historians Australian documentary filmmakers