Catherine Freyne

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Dr. Catherine Freyne is a multimedia historian with notable awards in radio and podcasting. Her doctoral work focuses on the dynamics of "gay married men" in Sydney, while her undergraduate studies addressed non-Indigenous belonging in Australia.

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Senior Producer, Impact Studios UTS, University of Technology Sydney

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Dr Catherine Freyne is a historian and producer of multimedia history content. She has worked as Features Producer at ABC Radio National, Historian at the City of Sydney and Curator at the State Library of NSW. For her work in radio and podcasting, Catherine has received two NSW Premier’s History Awards, the Oral History Australia Media Award and a Gold Signal Award. Her doctoral thesis ‘The Family as Closet: “Gay married men”, their wives and their children in Sydney, 1970-2000’ combines history, sexuality studies and family memoir. In 2024 it won ‘Best Thesis’ in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at UTS and placement on the Chancellor’s List. As an undergraduate, Catherine studied Australian history at UNSW earning First Class Honours for ‘Terra Alterius’, a study of non-Indigenous anxiety about belonging in Australia. She loves birds, underdogs, ocean swimming and primary sources.

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–present Senior Producer, Impact Studios UTS, University of Technology Sydney

Education

2025 UTS, PhD in History

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