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Three UWA academics have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

It is among the highest honours for national achievement in the field.

Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor of History in the School of Humanities. She has achieved wide international recognition for her innovative scholarship in the field of women and gender in early modern France and the Low Countries.

Professor Broomhall's publications on women in the book trade, in medical knowledge and practice, in religion and in historiography, heritage and tourism brought a feminist analysis to the cultural innovations of the sixteenth century.

More recently her work has expanded to include families and households, poverty and social welfare, policing and work.

Winthrop Professor Philip Mead is UWA's inaugural Chair of Australian Literature. His research includes history, criticism and pedagogy of Australian literature, literary regionalism, Shakespeare's reception in Australia, and new developments in digital humanities.

He co-edited The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry , which shaped the accepted canon of Australian poetry. Professor Mead's poetry and other creative writing has been published in journals including the Adelaide Review , the Age Monthly Review , Australian Book Review and Meanjin .

The University's third fellow is Terri-ann White , Director of UWA Publishing. In 1999, Professor White was the inaugural director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, a post she combined for several years with role in publishing.

She has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary Australian society and the humanities and is also a significant Australian author. Professor White's creative writing includes a novel, a collection of short stories, edited books of poetry, biography and non-fiction.

Fellows of the Academy range from academics in and authorities on Chinese languages, to musicology, Indigenous studies and environmental humanities.

Published in UWA News , April 2013