Australian historian and writer (born 1947)
Cassandra Jean Pybus FAHA (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.[1]
Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney.[2] Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.[3]
From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island. She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania.[4] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.[5]
Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.[6]
In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini[7] and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards[8] as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini.[9] In August 2021 she won the National Biography Award with Truganini,[10] while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[11]
Books
- Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse (2020)
- Enterprising Women: Gender Race and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Kit Candlin; 2015)
- Other Middle Passages (edited with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher; 2007)
- Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006)
- Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (2006)
- The Woman who Walked to Russia: A writer's search for a lost legend (2004)
- American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony, 1839–1850 (with Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; 2002)
- Raven Road (2001)
- The Devil and James McAuley (1999)
- Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree (1998)
- White Rajah: A Dynastic Intrigue (1996)
- Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered (1993)
- Community of Thieves (1991)
References
- ^ "Professor Cassandra Pybus". Department of History. University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ Who's Who in Australia, ConnectWeb
- ^ "Betty Jean Vyvyan Pybus OAM". Honour Roll of Women. Government of Tasmania. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "Colin Roderick Award". James Cook University. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "Tasmania: The Tipping Point?". University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "PYBUS, Cassandra". It's an Honour. Australian Government. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
- ^ "Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 January 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ "ABIA 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 12 April 2021. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
- ^ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Fellow: Professor Cassandra Pybus". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
