Professional
- John Barrett Award, highly commended, 2016.
- Mary Bennett Prize, highly commended, 2016.
- John Barrett Award, winner – postgraduate category, 2011.
- University Medal recipient, University of Queensland, 2010.
- Denis J. Murphy scholarship, University of Queensland, 2008.
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Can supervise: YES
Research Interests
Female offenders; thieves; criminal careers; crime and identity; crime in cultural discourse.
Teaching Areas
54001 Digital Literacies
54002 Communicating Difference
54098 Becoming Australia
55993 Honours Research Methods
55996 Honours Culture and Creativity
Publications
- Books
- Journal articles
- Chapters
- Conferences
- Other
Piper, A & Stevenson, A 2019, Gender Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives, Monash University Publishing, Clayton, Victoria.
Alana, P 2016, Brisbane Diseased Contagions, Cures and Controversy, Boolarong Press and Brisbane History Group.
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Projects
Selected projects
Digitising crime history: Perceptions and realities of criminality in Australia
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Alana Piper
University of Technology Sydney
Dr Alana Piper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Based in the Australian Centre for Public History, her current project (2018-) examines the lives and criminal careers of Australian offenders across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2017) at Griffith University attached to the ARC Laureate Fellowship ‘The Prosecution Project: Investigating the Criminal Trial in Australian History’. Alana was awarded her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2014 for a thesis entitled ‘In Bad Company: Female Criminal Subcultures in Brisbane and Melbourne, 1860-1920’. She has a broad range of interests concerning the social and cultural history of deviance and crime, but is particularly interested in issues of gender and identity.
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Dr Alana Piper is a Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. Her current project (2018-2022) uses digital techniques to map the lives and criminal careers of Australian offenders across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research interests draw together the social and cultural history of crime with criminology, legal history and the digital humanities.
Alana received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Queensland in 2014 for a thesis examining female involvement in Australian criminal subcultures across the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Between 2014 and 2018, Alana was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ARC Laureate Fellowship project, The Prosecution Project, a digital humanities initiative that looked at the history of the criminal trial in Australia.
Alana has published widely in prestigious international journals, including the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Women’s History Review, Journal of Social History, Cultural and Social History, History Workshop Journal, Law & History Review and Journal of Legal History. The interdisciplinary nature of her research has also led to publications in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, UNSW Law Journal and Criminal Law Journal.
You can follow Alana on Twitter on @alana_piper
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Alana Jayne Piper
University of Technology Sydney | UTS · Australian Centre for Public History
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Dr Alana Piper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Based in the Australian Centre for Public History, her current project (2018-) examines the lives and criminal careers of Australian offenders across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2017) at Griffith
The article was originally published here.
Alana Jayne Piper
University of Technology Sydney | UTS · Australian Centre for Public History
Dr Alana Piper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Based in the Australian Centre for Public History, her current project (2018-) examines the lives and criminal careers of Australian offenders across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2017) at Griffith University attached to the ARC Laureate Fellowship ‘The Prosecution Project: Investigating the Criminal Trial in Australian History’. Alana was awarded her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2014 for a thesis entitled ‘In Bad Company: Female Criminal Subcultures in Brisbane and Melbourne, 1860-1920’.
The article was originally published here.
Alana Piper
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
Dr Alana Piper is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Based in the Australian Centre for Public History, her current project (2018-) examines the lives and criminal careers of Australian offenders across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2014-2017) at Griffith University attached to the ARC Laureate Fellowship ‘The Prosecution Project: Investigating the Criminal Trial in Australian History’. Alana was awarded her PhD from the University of Queensland in 2014 for a thesis entitled ‘In Bad Company: Female Criminal Subcultures in Brisbane and Melbourne, 1860-1920’. She has a broad range of interests concerning the social and cultural history of deviance and crime, but is particularly interested in issues of gender and identity.
Experience
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2018–presentPostdoctoral research fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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2014–2017Postdoctoral research fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane
Education
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2014University of Queensland, PhD (history)
Publications
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2018“‘Us girls won’t put one another away’: Relations among Melbourne’s prostitute pickpockets, 1860-1920,” Women’s History Review,
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2017“Versatile offending: Criminal careers of female prisoners in Australia, 1860-1920,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History,
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2017“Book Thieves: Theft and Literary Culture in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Australia,” Cultural and Social History,
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2017“To judge a thief: How the background of thieves became central to dispensing justice, Western Australia, 1921-1951,” Law & History,
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2017“Defending the Accused: The Impact of Legal Representation on Criminal Trial Outcomes in Victoria, Australia 1861–1961,” Journal of Legal History ,
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2017“Theft on trial: Prosecution, conviction and sentencing patterns in colonial Victoria and Western Australia,” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology,
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2017“Access to legal representation by criminal defendants in Victoria, 1861-1961,” University of New South Wales Law Journal,
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2016“‘Woman’s Special Enemy’: Female Enmity in Criminal Discourse during the Long Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Social History,
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2016“The Prosecution Project: understanding the changing criminal trial through digital tools,” Law & History Review,
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2015“Women’s Work: The Professionalisation and Policing of Fortune-Telling in Australia,” Labour History,
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2015“’I’ll have no man’: female families in Melbourne’s criminal subcultures, 1860–1920,” Journal of Australian Studies,
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2015“The Special Jury in Australia,” Criminal Law Journal,
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2014“Looking Flash: Disreputable Women’s Dress and ‘Modernity’, 1870–1910,” History Workshop Journal,
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2014“The Scales of Justice,” Criminal Law Journal,
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2014“‘A Menace and an Evil’: Fortune-telling in Australia, 1900-1918,” History Australia,
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2012“‘I go out worse every time’: Connections and corruption in a female prison,” History Australia,
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2011“All the Waters of Lethe: An Experience of Female Alcoholism in Federation Queensland,” Queensland Review,
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2010“‘A growing vice’: the Truth about Brisbane girls and drunkenness in the early twentieth century,” Journal of Australian Studies,
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