Angela Woollacott

Professor of History, Australian National University

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Profile

Professor Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at the Australian National University. Professor Woollacott specialises in Australian history, British Empire history, women’s and gender history; settler colonialism; political and cultural history, biography and transnational history. In August 2019 her biography Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia will be published by Allen & Unwin. It was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Her most recent book is Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards – University of Southern Queensland History Prize.

Professor Woollacott is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.