Cassandra Jean Pybus FAHA (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney, and has published extensively on Australian and American history.[1]

Pybus was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney.[2] Her mother, Betty Pybus, was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania.[3]

From 1989 to 1994, Pybus was editor of the literary magazine Island. She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude, a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr, a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania.[4] In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley, a biography of the poet James McAuley.[5]

Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education.[6]

In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse[7] and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards[8] as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini.[9] In August 2021 she won the National Biography Award with Truganini,[10] while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[11]

Her 2024 book, A Very Secret Trade, was shortlisted for the 2025 Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction.[12]

Books

  • A Very Secret Trade: The Dark Story of Gentlemen Collectors in Tasmania (2024)
  • Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse (2020)[13]
  • Enterprising Women: Gender Race and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic (with Kit Candlin; 2015)[14]
  • Other Middle Passages (edited with Marcus Rediker and Emma Christopher; 2007)[15]
  • Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (2006)[16]
  • Black Founders: The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers (2006)[17]
  • The Woman who Walked to Russia: A writer's search for a lost legend (2004)[18]
  • American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony, 1839–1850 (with Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; 2002)[19]
  • Raven Road (2001)[20]
  • The Devil and James McAuley (1999)[21]
  • Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree (1998)[22]
  • White Rajah: A Dynastic Intrigue (1996)[23]
  • Gross Moral Turpitude: The Orr Case Reconsidered (1993)[24]
  • Community of Thieves (1991)[25]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Cassandra Pybus". Department of History. University of Sydney. Archived from the original on 9 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  2. ^ Who's Who in Australia, ConnectWeb
  3. ^ "Betty Jean Vyvyan Pybus OAM". Honour Roll of Women. Government of Tasmania. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Colin Roderick Award". James Cook University. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Tasmania: The Tipping Point?". University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ^ "PYBUS, Cassandra". It's an Honour. Australian Government. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  7. ^ "Queensland Literary Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 August 2020. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  8. ^ "Indie Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 January 2021. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  9. ^ "ABIA 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 12 April 2021. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  10. ^ "National Biography Award winner's announced on ABC Sydney". ABC Radio. 5 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Fellow Profile: Cassandra Pybus". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  12. ^ "Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 29 January 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  13. ^ Pybus, Cassandra (2020), Truganini : journey through the apocalypse, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 978-1-76052-922-2
  14. ^ "Enterprising Women: Gender Race and Power in the Revolutionary Atlantic by Cassandra Pybus and Kit Cardrin". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
  15. ^ Christopher, Emma, 1971-; Pybus, Cassandra, 1947-; Rediker, Marcus; ebrary, Inc (2007), Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-25207-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Pybus, Cassandra (2006), Epic journeys of freedom : runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty (1st ed.), Beacon Press, ISBN 978-0-8070-5514-4
  17. ^ Pybus, Cassandra Jane (2006), Black founders : the unknown story of Australia's first black settlers, UNSW Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-849-1
  18. ^ Pybus, Cassandra Jane (1900), The woman who walked to Russia, Thomas Allen Publishers, ISBN 978-0-88762-112-3
  19. ^ Pybus, Cassandra; Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (2002), American citizens, British slaves : Yankee political prisoners in an Australian penal colony 1839-1850, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-85027-7
  20. ^ Pybus, Cassandra (2001), Raven road, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3166-7
  21. ^ Pybus, Cassandra (2021), The devil and James McAuley, Ligature Pty Limited, ISBN 978-1-922749-16-1
  22. ^ Pybus, Cassandra; Brissenden collection (1998), Till apples grow on an orange tree, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-2986-2
  23. ^ Cassandra Pybus (1996), White Rajah a dynastic intrigue, St Lucia, Qld University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-2857-5
  24. ^ Pybus, Cassandra (2021), Gross moral turpitude : the Orr case reconsidered (This edition published in 2021 ed.), Ligature Pty Limited, ISBN 978-1-922730-69-5
  25. ^ Pybus, Cassandra; Pybus, Cassandra, 1947- (1991), Community of thieves, Heinemann Australia, ISBN 978-0-85561-433-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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