Wedgwood, Camilla Hildegarde

Born in England, Wedgwood graduated with a Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1927. At the time of her appointment to the University of Sydney, she was Assistant Lecturer in Social Studies at Bedford College, London. In 1930, Wedgwood held a temporary lectureship at the University of Capetown, South Africa. From 1931 to 1932, she was a research assistant to RFB Malinowski, and temporary Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

In 1927, the University Senate appointed Wedgwood as a temporary Lecturer in Anthropology for a period of two years. Subsequently, Wedgwood was retained until the end of Lent Term 1930 as a research worker. In 1934, Wedgwood was appointed as Lecturer in Anthropology, but without salary. She also held a ANRC Fellowship from 1932 to 1934, and a grant-in-aid in 1935, spending 15 months on Manum Island, with a further four months in 1935.

From 1935 to 1944, Wedgwood was Principal of the Women's College at Sydney University.

In 1939, Wedgwood held an appointment as a University Tutorial Class Lecturer. During the second world war, Wedgwood joined the Army Directorate of Research in Melbourne and later worked for the School of Civil Affairs at Duntroon Military College.

Wedgwood refers to her field notes as belonging to the ANRC. Conditions governing ANRC grants and fellowships in Anthropology included the following clause "If the results of the research are not published within three years the Council may require the recipient ...to hand over to the Committee on Anthropological Research his field note books". In 1955, the General Meeting of ANRC at which the organisation was dissolved, it was resolved to offer the ANRC Anthropological Collection to the University of Sydney. These papers came to the University Archives, via the Department of Anthropology, as part of the ANRC material.

A finding aid can be accessed at the University of Sydney Rare Books and Special Collections (accessed 24/05/2024).