Susan Broomhall

{{Short description|Australian historian and academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix =  | name = Susan Broomhall | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name =  | birth_date =  | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | citizenship =  | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards =  | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards =  | website = | education = | alma_mater = University of Western Australia<br/>Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance | thesis_title = Women and Publication in Sixteenth-century France | thesis_url = https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/women-and-publication-in-sixteenth-century-france | thesis_year = 1999 | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences =  | era = | discipline =  | sub_discipline =  | workplaces = University of Western Australia (1997–present)<br/>Australian Catholic University (2018–present) | doctoral_students =  | notable_students = | main_interests = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced =  | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }}

'''Susan Broomhall''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FAHA}} is an Australian historian and academic. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Professor of History at The University of Western Australia,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Gender and Power in the Premodern World |url=https://www.arc-humanities.org/search-results-list/?series=gender-and-power-in-the-premodern-world |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Arc Humanities Press |language=en-US}}</ref> and from 2018 Co-Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (CHE). She was a Foundation Chief Investigator (CI) in the 'Shaping the Modern' Program of the Centre, before commencing her Australian Research Council Future Fellowship within CHE in October 2014, and the Acting Director in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/about-the-centre/researchers/susan-broomhall/|title=Susan Broomhall {{!}} ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions|website=www.historyofemotions.org.au|language=en|access-date=2018-08-31}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Susan Broomhall |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=295 |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref> She is a specialist in gender history and the history of emotions.

== Education == Broomhall was born in Perth in 1974. She graduated BA with First-Class Honours in French Studies and History at the University of Western Australia in 1996, and completed her PhD with Distinction at UWA in 1999, on 'Women and Publication in Sixteenth-century France', supervised by Patricia Crawford and Beverley Ormerod. She then completed a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies, avec Mention Très Bien in 2000 at Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, associated with Université François Rabelais, in Tours, France.{{cn|date=December 2022}}

== Career == Broomhall's projects with the CHE analyse medieval and early modern objects and emotions, particularly as they are presented in modern museum, heritage and tourism environments. Her research explores i) the interpretation of medieval and early modern objects in the history of emotional processes and practices; ii) the affective origins of specific medieval and early modern objects; iii) the emotional interpretation of medieval and early modern objects in museum, gallery and tourism contexts; and iv) affective materiality.

Her Future Fellow research project focuses on emotions and power in the correspondence of Catherine de Medici. She has also published extensively, with Jacqueline van Gent, on the history of the Nassau-Orange dynasty in the early modern Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Sally-Ann |date=17 May 2010 |title=Gossip girls set to upend views of influential dynasty |language=en |work=News {{!}} The University Of Western Australia |url=http://www.news.uwa.edu.au/201005172496/features/gossip-girls-set-upend-views-influential-dynasty |access-date=2018-08-31}}</ref>

Broomhall was the editor of Parergon: The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, from 2017<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-01 |title=Parergon Editor {{!}} ANZAMEMS Inc |url=https://www.anzamems.org/?page_id=243 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201143217/https://www.anzamems.org/?page_id=243 |archive-date=2020-12-01 |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=}}</ref> until 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parergon Editor {{!}} ANZAMEMS Inc |url=https://www.anzamems.org/?page_id=243 |access-date=2022-11-26}}</ref> She is also Series Editor of ''Gender and Power in the Premodern World''.<ref name=":0" />

== Awards and prizes == In 2012 Broomhall was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.<ref name=":1" />

In 2017 she was awarded, with David Barrie, the Frank Watson Book Prize for Best Book in Scottish History (2015-2016) for the two-volume ''Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Watson Book Prize {{!}} College of Arts |url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish/events/fall/frank-watson-book-prize |access-date=2018-08-31 |website=www.uoguelph.ca |publisher=University of Guelph |language=en}}</ref>

Along with several other contributors, Broomhall was awarded the 2017 CHASS Australia Book Prize for Distinctive Work in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (an annual prize awarded by the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) for her work on the Zest Festival.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 October 2017 |title=Winners of the 2017 CHASS Australia Prizes Announced |url=http://www.chass.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-CHASS-Australia-Prizes-Winners-Announced.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313153747/http://www.chass.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-CHASS-Australia-Prizes-Winners-Announced.pdf |archive-date=13 March 2018}}</ref>

In 1997 she was awarded the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Essay Prize<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-06 |title=The Roy Porter Prize Articles |url=https://sshm.org/the-roy-porter-prize-articles/ |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=Society for the Social History of Medicine |language=en}}</ref> for the essay "French Women in Print, 1488 to 1599".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Essay Prize |url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/prizes/bibliographical-society-of-australia-and-new-zealand-essay-prize |access-date=2022-11-26 |website=the UWA Profiles and Research Repository |language=en}}</ref>

In 1999 she won the Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Essay Prize for her article on women's reproductive knowledge in sixteenth-century France.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Broomhall|first=S.|date=2002-04-01|title='Women's Little Secrets': Defining the Boundaries of Reproductive Knowledge in Sixteenth-century France: Society for the Social History of Medicine Student Essay Competition Winner, 1999|journal=Social History of Medicine|language=en|volume=15|issue=1|pages=1–15|doi=10.1093/shm/15.1.1|pmid=12619665|issn=0951-631X}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

===As author=== * {{Citation | author1=Crawford, Patricia | author2=Broomhall, Susan | title=Women in Early Modern Europe 1500-1800 | date=1997 | publisher=History Dept., University of Western Australia | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8609426 | access-date=12 October 2018 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | title=Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-century France | date=2002 | publisher=Ashgate | isbn=978-0-7546-0671-0 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | title=Women's Medical Work in Early Modern France | date=2004 | publisher=Manchester University Press | isbn=978-0-7190-6286-5 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | title=Women and Religion in Sixteenth-century France | date=2005 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-1-4039-3681-3 }} * {{Citation | author1=Spinks, Jennifer | author2=Broomhall, Susan | title=Early Modern Women in the Low Countries: feminizing sources and interpretations of the past | date=2011 | publisher=Ashgate (Firm) | isbn=978-1-4094-2537-3 }} * Barrie, David & Broomhall, Susan. ''Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 1: Magistrates, Media and the Masses'' Ashgate, 2014. * Barrie, David & Broomhall, Susan. ''Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, Volume 2: Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies'' Ashgate, 2014. * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | author2=Van Gent, Jacqueline | title=Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau | date=2016 | publisher=London Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group | isbn=978-1-138-95336-9 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | author2=Van Gent, Jacqueline | title=Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau | date=2016 | publisher=London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | isbn=978-1-4094-5146-4 }}

===As editor=== * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | title=Emotions in the Household, 1200-1900 | date=2008 | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-0-230-54311-9 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | author2=Tarbin, Stephanie | title=Women, Identities and Communities in Early Modern Europe | date=2008 | publisher=Ashgate Pub. Co | isbn=978-0-7546-6184-9 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | author2=Van Gent, Jacqueline | title=Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period: Regulating Selves and Others | date=2011 | publisher=Ashgate | isbn=978-1-4094-3238-8 }} * {{Citation | author1=Broomhall, Susan | author2=Pickering, Gina | title=Rivers of Emotion : An Emotional History of Derbarl Yerrigan and Djarlgarro Beelier: The Swan and Canning Rivers | date=2012 | publisher=Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence History of Emotions, and National Trust of Australia (W.A.)| isbn=978-1-74052-260-1 }} * {{Citation | author1=Barrie, David G | author2=Broomhall, Susan | title=A History of Police and Masculinities, 1700-2010 | date=2012 | publisher=Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | isbn=978-0-415-67129-3 }} *{{Citation | editor=Broomhall, Susan | title=Spaces for Feeling: Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850 | date=2015 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-315-73214-5 }} * {{Citation | editor=Broomhall, Susan | title=Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England | date=2015 | publisher=Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK New York Palgrave Macmillan | isbn=978-1-137-53115-5 }} * {{Citation | editor=Broomhall, Susan | title=Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 | date=2015 | publisher=Leiden Boston Brill | isbn=978-90-04-30509-0 }} * {{Citation | editor=Broomhall, Susan | title=Gender and Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Destroying Order, Structuring Disorder | date=2016 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-317-13068-0 }} * {{Citation | editor1=Broomhall, Susan | editor2=Finn, Sarah | title=Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe | date=2016 | publisher=London Routledge | isbn=978-1-317-42419-2 }} * {{Citation | editor=Broomhall, Susan | title=Early Modern Emotions: An Introduction | date=2017 | publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-1-138-92574-8 }}

=== In French ===

* Broomhall, S. & Winn, C. H. ''Le Verger fertile des vertus.'' Honoré Champion, 2004. * Broomhall, S. & Winn, C. H. ''Les femmes et l'histoire familiale''. Honoré Champion, 2008.

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== External links ==

* [https://www.acu.edu.au/research-and-enterprise/our-research-institutes/institute-for-humanities-and-social-sciences/our-people/professor-susan-broomhall Research profile] at the Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University * [https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/susan-broomhall/network-persons/ Research profile] at the University of Western Australia * [https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow/?contact_id=2883 Fellow profile] at the Australian Academy of the Humanities * [https://theconversation.com/profiles/susan-broomhall-5899/articles Research articles] at The Conversation {{Authority control}}

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