Ann Genovese is an interdisciplinary scholar, who holds both law and history degrees; her PhD (in History) focussing on the interrelationships between these disciplines. She works on the history and theory of the relationship between Australian law, the State and political culture. Her major projects, more specifically, have focused on:
- History, law and indigenous peoples
- History of feminist legal activism
- History of the Administrative state.
Through these projects Ann has expertise in a range of jurisdictions and areas of law: evidence, family law, administrative law, principles of public law, legal history, criminal law and native title.
Ann has been the recipient of an ARC PostDoctoral Fellowship (undertaken at MLS in relation to her work on feminist theory, family law and the state); a Fellowship at the Humanities Research centre ANU (for their Law and the Huamnities themed year), and part of a successful ARC Discovery Grant team for research into historical evidence and indigenous litigation.
Ann has worked inside and outside the Academy; at the Law Foundation in Sydney, working on public policy, as well as teaching in law and humanities faculties at UTS and UNSW, and since 2009 at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
She is a member of the Institute for International law and the Humanities (Iilah) , at the MLS, a member of editorial board of Australian Feminist Studies, and a corresponding editor for Feminist Review. She reviews for a range of journals, from Australian Historical Studies to borderlands and the Indigenous law Journal.
Ann's interdisciplinary research has resulted in publications in journals relevant to law, history and feminist theory.Her most recent representative publications include Rights and Redemption: law, history, indigenous peoples (UNSW Press, 2008), co-authored with Ann Curthoys and Alexander Reilly; and 'Poisons and antidotes: Historicising feminism and equality in an age of rights competition' (2008) 27 Dialogue 10-22[view at http://www.assa.edu.au/publications/dialogue/_toc/2008_Vol27_No3.php].
Forthcoming in 2010 will be a book co-edited with Julie Evans, Patrick Wolfe, and Alexander Reilly Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility (with UHP); and as corresponding editor for Issue 95 of Feminist Review 'Transforming Academies'.
She is currently supervising doctoral students who work between law and humanities, and is experienced in cross Faculty supervisions.
In 2009 Ann will be teaching Administrative Law in the LLB program, as well as contributing to the cross Faculty subject Land, Law, Philosophy.
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