Susan Marsden

Dr Susan Marsden is a professional and a voluntary historian, who was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1991. Her historical roles have included being SA State Historian, National Conservation Manager for the Australian Council of National Trusts, founding president of the Oral History Association (SA), and president of the Professional Historians Association (SA), and of the History Council of SA. She’s produced many histories in a variety of formats, including oral histories for the National Library of Australia, exhibitions, heritage studies and social media posts (see Facebook and YouTube links above) for the philanthropic Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation co-founded with Michael Szwarcbord. She has authored or co–authored over 40 publications. They include Australia’s first heritage thematic framework, Historical Guidelines (now online), and books and heritage studies spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Susan was awarded the History Council’s first South Australian Life-long History Achievement Award in 2012, the SA Minister’s Heritage Heroes Award also in 2012, and she was appointed Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division) in 2022.