HISTORIAN, WRITER, PODCASTER

Dr Yves Rees (they/them) is an award-winning writer, historian and podcaster based in Naarm/Melbourne. A settler with Welsh, English and Norwegian heritage, they live and work on unceded Wurundjeri land.

At present, Yves is a Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, co-host of Archive Fever history podcast, and co-editor of History Australia. They are the author of Travelling to Tomorrow: the modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America (NewSouth, 2024) and All About Yves: Notes from a Transition (Allen & Unwin, 2021), as well as co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022) and Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History (Palgrave, 2017).

Rees was awarded the 2020 ABR Calibre Essay Prize, a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and the 2018 Serle Award. They are the 2025 KSP Writers’ Centre Emerging Writer-in-Residence and are shortlisted for the 2025 Marilyn Lake Prize. Rees has judged the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Calibre Essay Prize and the Stella Prize.

Their scholarly articles have been published in leading national and international journals, including Gender & History, Australian Historical Studies, Pacific Historical Review and Journal of Global History. Their essays and criticism have been published in the Guardian, The Age, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Crikey and Overland, among other publications.