Dr Natasha Campo

Research Assistant

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Dr Natasha Campo joined the department in January 2007 as Research Assistant to Professor Jenny Hocking who is currently working on a biography of the Hon. E. G. Whitlam. The biography forms part of a three year Australian Research Council Linkage Grant with the National Library of Australia and the National Archives of Australia.

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Natasha has published in academic journals, as well as in the Age. Between 2003-2006 she worked as an editor for Lilith: A Feminist History Journal and more recently for RMIT Press. She has taught in Australian history, gender studies and legal studies at La Trobe University.

In 2005 Natasha was recognised as a ‘New Talent’ by the Journal of Australian Studies with the publication of her article ‘”Having it All” or “Had Enough”? Blaming Feminism in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, 1980-2004’.

Natasha completed her PhD in history at La Trobe University in 2006. Her thesis examined the ways in which the Australian media has shaped and produced memories of 1970s feminism.