Rate My Professor Barbara Caine

Caine earned her BA with the University Medal from the University of Sydney in 1969, an MPhil from the University of Sussex in 1976, and a PhD from Monash University. Her academic interests center on the history of feminism, women's history, biography, life-writing, and nineteenth-century studies. Key publications include Victorian Feminists (Oxford University Press, 1992), English Feminism 1780-1980 (Oxford University Press, 1997), Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family (Oxford University Press, 2005), Biography and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), and Friendship: A History (Equinox Publishing, 2009). She has edited Australian Feminism: A Companion (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Companion to Women's Historical Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Caine is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 1995; Vice-President 2002-2005), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Historical Society. In 2014, she received the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to tertiary education, particularly gender studies.