| Fiona Paisley | |
| Birth Place: | Aberdeen, Scotland |
| Alma Mater: | Monash University (BA, DipEd) University of Melbourne (MEd) La Trobe University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Ideas have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920–1937 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Marilyn Lake |
| Discipline: | History |
| Sub Discipline: | Women's history cultural history transnational history |
| Workplaces: | Griffith University |
| Birth Name: | Fiona Kerr Paisley |
Fiona Kerr Paisley (born 1958) is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.[1]
Paisley was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1958.[2] During her childhood she moved with her family between Scotland and Australia. She settled in Melbourne where she completed a BA and DipEd at Monash University and then worked as a high school teacher, before studying for a MEd at the University of Melbourne. She then undertook a PhD at La Trobe University, successfully submitting her thesis, "Ideas Have Wings: White Women Challenge Aboriginal Policy 1920-1937", which was supervised by Marilyn Lake.[3]
Paisley won the 2014 Magarey Medal for Biography for The Lone Protestor.[4]
She was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2016[5] and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.