Jeannine Baker

Jeannine Baker is a Sessional Academic in the Department of Media, Music, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, and Centre Manager for Research and Engagement at the Creative Documentary Research Centre. She held a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2017–2020) and was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex (2018–2019). Her research focuses on gender, labor, and technology in media, with notable projects including 'The Women Who Made Australian Television' (2021 Media Studies Grant recipient and 2022 Oral History Australia Media Award winner).

Education highlights include a PhD in History (University of Melbourne, 2014), awarded the Dennis-Wettenhall Prize. She has authored Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam (2015) and co-edited Small Screens: Essays in Contemporary Australian Television (2016). Her work spans academic editing, documentary production, and curation, including co-curating the BBC's '100 Voices That Made the BBC: Pioneering Women' website with Kate Murphy.

Research interests emphasize women's roles in media history, transnational broadcasting, and labor dynamics. She co-founded an international network on women's broadcasting histories and has organized conferences like 'Gendered Labour, Technology and the Media' (2019). Awards include the Ferguson Prize for Labour History (2017) and the Nancy Keesing Fellowship (2004).

Her projects include Making Airwaves: A History of Women in Australian Broadcasting and collaborations with institutions like the National Film and Sound Archive. She has contributed to media initiatives such as ABC Radio National documentaries and SBS TV productions, showcasing her interdisciplinary impact.