Rate My Professor Victoria Haskins

Haskins joined the University of Newcastle in 2006 as Lecturer in Australian History, advancing to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor in 2016. Prior roles include Lecturer at Flinders University (2000-2006) and Curator at the National Museum of Australia (1998-1999). She has held visiting positions at Harvard University (2005), Trinity College Cambridge (2023), City University of New York (2023), Birkbeck College University of London (2017), and Monash University (2009). Administrative roles include Deputy Head of School (Teaching & Learning, 2014-2016), President of the Academic Senate (2020-2022), ARC College of Experts (2022), and Council member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2023-2025). She serves on the editorial board of Australian Feminist Studies since 2006. Major publications include One Bright Spot (2005), Matrons and Maids: Regulating Indian Domestic Service in Tucson, 1914-1934 (2012), Colonization and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (co-edited with Claire Lowrie, 2015), Living with the Locals: Early Europeans' Experience of Indigenous Life (co-authored with John Maynard, 2016), and Colonialism and Male Domestic Service across the Asia Pacific (co-authored, 2019). Awards include Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2022), Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (2024), ARC Future Fellowship (2009-2013), multiple ARC Discovery and LIEF grants, NSW Centenary of Anzac Commemoration History Fellowship (2013-2015), Mary Bennett Prize (2002), and University Medal (1990).