Personal Details: Evans, Tanya
Co-director (since August 2020)
Member PHW Executive Board
Tanya Evans, PhD, is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia where she teaches history. She sits on the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Public History.
Her publications include: Fractured Families: Life On The Margins in Colonial New South Wales (University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2015); (ed.) Swimming with the Spit: 100 Years of the Spit Amateur Swimming Club (University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2016); with Pat Thane, Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Unmarried Motherhood in Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2012); 'Unfortunate Objects': Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); 'Genealogy and Family History', David Dean (ed.), Companion to Public History (Wiley Blackwell, 2018); 'Who do you think you are?' Historical Television Consultancy', Australian Historical Studies, Autumn 2015. She also works as a consultant for the Australian, British and American television series of Who do you think you are?.
Tanya Evans, Dr. phil., PhD, ist Professorin und Direktorin des Zentrum für Angewandte Geschichte an der Macquarie University in Sydney (Australien), wo sie Geschichte lehrt. Sie ist ein Mitglied des Vorstands der International Federation of Public History.
Zu ihren Publikationen gehören: Fractured Families: Life On The Margins in Colonial New South Wales (University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2015); (ed.) Swimming with the Spit: 100 Years of the Spit Amateur Swimming Club (University of New South Wales Press Ltd, 2016); with Pat Thane, Sinners, Scroungers, Saints: Unmarried Motherhood in Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2012); 'Unfortunate Objects': Lone Mothers in Eighteenth-Century London (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); 'Genealogy and Family History', David Dean (ed.), Companion to Public History (Wiley Blackwell, 2018); 'Who do you think you are?' Historical Television Consultancy', Australian Historical Studies, Autumn 2015.
Darüber hinaus arbeitet sie als Beraterin für die australische, britische und amerikanische Fernsehshow Who do you think you are?.
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