Zainuddin, Ailsa Gwennyth Thomson

Positions summary

Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, 1965-1992. Main areas of interest and publication - Australian and Indonesian history; the history of education; and women's history.

Biography

Ailsa Zainuddin was born in Box Hill on 8 April 1927. She was educated at MLC before going on to do degrees in history (MA 1954) and education (BEd 1964) at the University of Melbourne. She later gained a PhD from Monash University (1983). Zainu'ddin was employed as a tutor at Melbourne University (1948-51) and research assistant at Canberra University College (1951-54) and was a Volunteer Graduate for Indonesia in 1954-55. She subsequently wrote scripts for Radio Australia's Indonesian Section (1956-60). From 1961-64 Zainu'ddin worked as a tutor and assistant lecturer in the Law School and Indonesian Studies Department at Melbourne University. She took up her first appointment as a Lecturer at Monash in January 1965, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 1970. Her main areas of interest and publication were Australian and Indonesian history; the history of education; and women's history. She died on 25 March 2019. Publications: Songs of Indonesia. Melbourne, Heinemann, 1967 A Short History of Indonesia. Cassell, Aust., 1968 (rev.1980) They Dreamt of a School: a Centenary History of MLC Kew. Hyland House, Melbourne, 1982

Papers

Notebooks and diaries 1940-1992
Collection spanning 1963 to 1990, together with several University of Melbourne lecture notebooks for 1940.

Research and teaching papers 1945-2012
Files related to work at Monash including courses taught and students supervised. Also included are files related to earlier studies at University of Melbourne, and files related to research arising from MLC history, in particular the Corr family.

See also
The Australian Women's Register - Zainuddin, Ailsa