Catherine Bishop (historian)

Catherine Bishop is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based historian specialising in gender and business history.

In 2012 she completed a PhD in history at the Australian National University, studying the lives of businesswomen in Sydney and Wellington.

[3][4] In 2015, Bishop published some of her PhD research as the book Minding Her Own Business: Colonial businesswomen in Sydney.

[6] In 2016, she was the Australian Religious History Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

The same year she won the Australian Women's History Network Mary Bennett prize and received a New Zealand History Trust Award to help fund her research for her second book extending her PhD research, Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2019).