Caitlin Mahar is an historian, educator and writer who lectures in history at Swinburne University of Technology. She completed a PhD in history at the University of Melbourne in 2016 and was awarded the Society for the Social History of Medicine Roy Porter Essay Prize, the Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Ben Haneman Memorial Award and the University of Melbourne's Dennis-Wettenhall Prize. She previously taught literature in the Trinity College Foundation Studies Program at the University of Melbourne and was a regular restaurant reviewer for Fairfax Media Publications.