Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 1991
Panel: C
Discipline: History

Professor Jill Roe a member of the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, Sydney, where she teaches Australian and lated history. She has published books on urban and social policy history in Australia, and now specialises in cultural history. She also has an interest in minor/alternative religious movements. Her major publications to date are Beyond Belief. Theosophy in Australia 1879-1939 (1986), My Congenials. Miles Franklin and Friends in Letters 1879-1954 (1993) and A Gregarious Culture. Topical Writings of Miles Franklin (2001, with Margaret Bettison). Current research projects pertain to the life and works of Australian writer Miles Franklin, Australian women at home and away since the 1860s and Eyre Peninusla. Professor Roe is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1996--), Immediate Past President of the Australian Historical Assocation (1998-2000, 2000-2002), and a member of the Management Committee for the International Congress of Historical Sciences, UNSW, 2005. In 1994-95 she was Visiting Professor of Australian Studes at Harvard University and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Schlesinger Library, Harvard University in 1999. Her most recent appointments are to the Editorial Board of DFAT Historical Documents Publications Project and Honorary Research Fellow, Mitchell Library, 2002.

• (2001) Geoffrey Bolton in Conversation will Jill Roe, In Australian Historical Association Bulletin. Melbourne: AHA.
• Jill Roe and Helen Bartley (2001) Eyre Peninsula, In Wakefield Companion to South Australian History. W. Prest (eds.). Adelaide: Wakefield Press.
• Jill Roe and Magaret Bettison (2001) A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writing of Miles Franklin. St Lucia, Qld: University of Queensland Press.
• Jill Roe (2000) Australian Historical Association Bulletin. Melbourne: AHA.
• Jill Roe (1998) Australian Women in America, from Miles Franklin to Jill Ker Conway, In Approaching Australia: Papers From The Harvard Australian Studies Symposium. Bolitho, Harold and Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP.