Yves (they/them) is a Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University. They are a historian of Australia in the world, with particular interests in gender, modernity, mobility, whiteness, and the politics of knowledge. At present, Yves is pursuing two research projects: first, historians and history making in the new media landscape; and second, the history of Australian drag. They are also co-editor of History Australia (the official journal of the Australian Historical Association). 

Yves is 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). They are also co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2022) and Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History (Palgrave, 2017).

Yves is the recipient of the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize, awarded for their essay ‘Reading the Mess Backwards’. Yves has also received the Serle Award for Best Postgraduate Thesis in Australian History, the Ken Inglis Prize, an Endeavour Research Fellowship, the ANU Gender Institute Research Excellence Award, a La Trobe ECR Research Excellence Award, a Varuna Residential Fellowship, and was a finalist for the CHASS Future Leader Award. In 2025, they are Emerging Writer-in-Residence at KSP Writers' Centre and a finalist for the Marilyn Lake Award for Transnational History. 

During 2017-20, Yves was a David Myers Research Fellow in History at La Trobe University. Prior to joining La Trobe, Yves was a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow in the Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney. Yves holds a PhD from the Australian National University and an MA from University College London, and has been a Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University.

Yves is the co-host (with Prof. Clare Wright) of the history podcast Archive Fever, produced by Matt Smith (2019-present). Archive Fever is a podcast about the research process, and features intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians and other victims of the research bug. Episodes are available at archivefeverpod.com.

Yves is also a regular contributor to ABC radio, and their writing has featured in Guardian Australia, the Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, Overland, Inside Story, ABC Online, The Conversation, Archer Magazine and the Australian Book Review.

At present, Yves sits on the Board of the History Council of Victoria, the Editorial Board of Journal of Australian Studies, and the Griffith Review Editorial Advisory Board. They are also a member of the National Advisory Committee of A Monument of One’s Own, and the Women's Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Yves has judged the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Calibre Essay Prize, and the Stella Prize, and is a Writing Mentor for Kill Your Darlings. 

Yves has appeared at a range of festivals including Sydney Writers’ Festival, Adelaide Writers’ Week, Melbourne Writers Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival, Byron Writers Festival, Write Around the Murray, Bendigo Writers Festival and the Port Fairy Literary Weekend. In 2021, Yves co-curated and hosted a sold-out event on ‘Beyond the Binary’ for All About Women festival at the Sydney Opera House. Yves is a proud member of Readers and Writers Against the Genocide.