Marian Quartly (born 1942) is an Australian social historian. She is professor emeritus in history at Monash University.
Early life and education Marian Quartly is the daughter of Valma Jean (née Tyler) and metalworker Gordon Henry Quartly. She was born in 1942 in Adelaide, South Australia. She attended Blair Athol State School and then Wilderness School. In 1964 she completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Adelaide. She moved to Melbourne, where she graduated with a PhD at Monash University in 1970.
Career
Quartly's teaching career began at Universiti Sains Malaysia where she lectured in historical method and Malay history. In 1975 she was appointed an Australian history tutor at the University of Western Australia. From there she moved to Monash University as a lecturer in 1980 and remained there until she retired in 2006, being appointed professor emeritus. During her time at Monash she was Dean of Arts from 1994 to 1999.
In 1978 Quartly was co-founder, with Alan Atkinson, of The Push from the Bush, subtitled "A Bulletin of Social History".
In 1994, she was awarded the Human Rights Non-Fiction Award for Creating a Nation jointly with co-authors Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake and Ann McGrath.1994 Human Rights Medal and Awards Australian Human Rights Commission accessed 19 August 2011
Her book, The Middling Sort, won the 2023 T. T. Reed Book Award, presented by the South Australian Genealogical Society award for the best family history.
Marian Quartly Prize In 2018 the Australian Historical Association (AHA) renamed its Taylor and Francis Prize the Marian Quartly Prize in recognition of Quartly's contribution to its journal, History Australia. The prize is awarded for the best journal article published each calendar year.
Winners include:
2017: Laura Rademaker (then the Taylor and Francis Prize) 2018: Ben Silverstein 2019: Frances Steel 2020: Jeremy Martens 2021: Jordana Silverstein 2022: Nancy Cushing 2023: Tim Calabria 2024: Joint winners Fiona Paisley Joel Barnes 2025: Joint winners (co-authors) Barbara Baird Erica Millar
2026: Joint winners (co-authors) J. A. Edgar Ben Silverstein
Works
As author
As editor
As contributor
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