Rate My Professor Emily Chambers

Emily Chambers is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Murdoch University, with a focus on early modern history. She completed her undergraduate degree and honours thesis in History at Murdoch University in 2017, titled 'The Immigration of Domestic Servants to Western Australia in the 1850s and 1890s.' Following this, she earned an MA from the University of Leeds and a PhD in History from the University of Nottingham in 2024. Her doctoral research examined elite female connections and influence in mid-Tudor England, exploring how personal networks enabled the political agency of eight elite women through their social and familial ties.

Chambers' research specializations include British history, women's history, early modern studies, and political history, particularly the role and agency of early modern elite English women. She has published peer-reviewed book reviews, such as one in the Journal of Early Modern History (2022) on Women's Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain by Julie A. Eckerle and Naomi McAreavey, and a review of Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533 by Michelle L. Beer (2020). Her conference presentations include 'The Physicality of Handwriting and Elite Tudor Women's Approaches to Holograph Letters' at the Feathers Conference (2025), 'Protestant Female Martyrs or Heroines in Tudor England' (2024), and contributions to the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group programme (2025). Chambers serves as School Academic Secretary for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences school and co-convenes the ANZAMEMS Reading Group. She delivered the Murdoch Lecture on 'Elite Female Influence in Mid-Tudor England' (2022) and featured in the Royal Studies Podcast discussing Tudor women. In 2024, she received a Dean's commendation from the Murdoch University School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences staff awards.