Dr Fiona Gatt’s PhD thesis in history, completed at Deakin University in early 2023, recovers the lived experience of nineteenth-century urbanisation on Melbourne’s colonial urban frontier. Her areas of interest include class, housing, urbanisation and global migration. She works at various universities as a teacher and research assistant and on public history projects. She is coeditor of the Journal of Australian Studies and Pharos, the newsletter of the Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas). She has a leadership role in the New Housing Histories Network and is currently historian in residence at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Fiona lives (and mainly works) on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Author email: gattfiona@gmail.com
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