Professor Fay Anderson is based in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her interdisciplinary research centres on Australian media history, with a focus on photography, crime, oral history, the Holocaust, biography, genocide, trauma, moral injury, and memory.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate professor, Monash University

Education

  • 2003 
    University of Melbourne, PhD History
  • 1993 
    University of Melbourne, Graduate Diploma in Information Management

Publications

  • 2025
    Picturing Citizenship: Images, Belonging, and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation,
  • 2024
    The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning,
  • 2016
    Shooting the Picture: Press Photography in Australia,
  • 2011
    Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting ,
  • 2005
    Max Crawford: An Historian’s Life and the Limits of Academic Freedom,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    Australian Journalism, Trauma and Community
    Role:
    Lead CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2020
    Envisaging Citizenship: Australian Histories and Global Connections
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2013
    Press Photography in Australia
    Role:
    CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2005
    The History of Australian Conflict Reporting
    Role:
    Lead CI
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council

Contact Fay for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision