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Associate Professor in History of Christianity, University of Divinity

Recent Publications

Feminist Theologies: A Companion. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Stephen Burns and Katharine Massam. London: SCM Press, 2024.

Seeing Christ in Australia, since 1850. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Sean Winter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

God in the Landscape: Studies in the Literary History of Australian Protestant Dissent. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Monograph.

Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.

‘Dialogues of Secular and Sacred: Christianity in Mid-Twentieth-Century Australian Culture’, special issue of Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 35, no.1 (April 2022). Co-edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Katharine Massam.

‘Good Grace: Stories of Emotion and Women’s Experience in the Methodist Mission to Papua’. In Tending to Stories, edited by Helena Kadmos and Katharine Massam. Gender, Theology and Spirituality series. Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. (forthcoming)

‘No Time Like the Present: Writing the Past in Australian Evangelical Dissent’. In The Gospel in the Past: Essays on the Historiography of the Evangelical Movement, edited by David Bebbington. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2025 (forthcoming).

‘Vocation: Listening, Persistence and Hard Work within the Church’. In Feminist Theologies: A Companion, edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Stephen Burns, and Katharine Massam. London: SCM Press, 2024.

‘Christ as Lost Innocent: Lost Faith, Fickle Providence, and the Land’s Sacrificial Demands’. In Seeing Christ in Australia, since 1850. Edited by Kerrie Handasyde and Sean Winter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

‘Mother, Preacher, Press: Women Ministers and the Negotiation of Authority, 1910-1933’. In Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, edited by Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney and Rebekah Pryor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.

‘Religious Dress and the Making of Women Preachers in Australia, 1880-1934’. Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 26 (2020): 103-119. Accompanying blog: ‘Women Preachers―What to Wear?’ VIDA!―Blog of the Australian Women’s History Network (2020)

‘Pentecost Past or Present: Responses to Charismatic Phenomena in Australian Churches of Christ’. Pneuma: Journal of the Society of Pentecostal Studies 41 (2019): 458-476.

‘Wattle: “symbol of this nation’s heart”’, Australian Garden History, Vol. 29, no. 3 (January 2018).

‘Anzac Theology and the Women Poets Under the Southern Cross’, Colloquium: The Australia and New Zealand Theological Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (May 2017).

‘Pioneering Leadership: Historical Myth-Making, Absence and Identity in the Churches of Christ in Victoria’, Journal of Religious History, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 2017).

‘Holy Land Tourism: A Horseback Ride from Public Theology to Private Faith’, Melbourne Historical Journal, Vol. 43 special issue: ‘Territories and Transitions’ (2015).

‘Harvest Thanksgiving and the Photography of Grace’, Australian Journal of Liturgy, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2015).

‘Transforming history: the origins of the Stone-Campbell Movement in Victoria, Australia’, Stone-Campbell Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 2014).

With My Sister Beside Me: History of Women’s Ministry Unit-Churches of Christ in Australia (Mulgrave: Australian Churches of Christ Historical Society, 2014).

‘Remember Me: a liturgical, theological and social history surrounding two nineteenth-century chalices from Churches of Christ in Australia’, Australian Journal of Liturgy, Vol. 12, No. 3 (2011).

‘Community Cookbooks: Women’s Words and Hospitality at Bayswater Church of Christ, 1962-1990’, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 82, No.1 (June 2011).

Media Coverage

Social Media

Country Focus

Australia

Expertise by Geography

Australia

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Environment, Food History, Material Culture, Religion, Women