Alison Downham Moore

Biography

Alison Downham Moore is a historian and interdisciplinary medical humanities scholar at Western Sydney University, where she teaches, researches and has held governance roles in supporting students with disability, serving on the Board of Trustees, as Chair of the Professoriate Leadership Group, and as Associate Dean of Research for the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. From 2022-2024 she was Managing Editor of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, and is now Editor-in-Chief of Australian Feminist Studies. She has received competitive grants and fellowships from the Australian Research Council, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study, the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, and the Society for French Studies (UK). She holds a Senior Teaching Fellowship from AdvanceHE, is a Fellow of the UK Royal Historical Society, and is an international peer-reviewer of online teaching design with Quality Matters (USA).

Her forthcoming book The Gendering of Ageing in the Emergence of Biomedicine is contracted to Cambridge University Press, and she is author of 3 other books, most recently The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women’s Ageing (Oxford University Press, 2022), and of over 60 peer-reviewed papers, such as in The Journal of Global History; SIGNS: The Journal of Women in Culture; Modern Intellectual History; History of the Human Sciences; BMJ Medical Humanities, and History & Anthropology.