Rate My Professor Penny Russell

Russell's major publications include the monograph Savage or Civilised? Manners in Colonial Australia (2010), which won the New South Wales Premier's History Award, This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney (2002), and A Wish of Distinction: Colonial Gentility and Femininity (1994). She has edited key volumes such as Pastiche I: Reflections on 19th Century Australia (1994, with Richard White), Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World (2008, with Desley Deacon and Angela Woollacott), and Honourable Intentions?: Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c. 1750 to 1850 (2016, with Nigel Worden). Her contributions extend to editorial roles as joint editor of History Australia from 2008 to 2013. Russell received the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association Supervisor of the Year award, the University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Higher Research Degree Supervision, and was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2012. Her scholarship has profoundly shaped understandings of colonial social structures, gender dynamics, and interpersonal relations in imperial contexts.