Academy Fellow

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 was President of the Australian Historical Association from July 2014 to July 2016, and served on the AHA's Executive Committee 2004-8, 2010-18.

She is currently:

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Historical Research and Publications Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2015-19

Member, International advisory board, Settler Colonial Studies, 2009 -

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 2010-

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, History Australia, 2017 -

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 2014)

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2006)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (elected 1994)

Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia to be published by Allen & Unwin on 19 August 2019.

Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott (eds.), Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia in press with ANU Press, to be published 2019.

Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott (eds.), ‘How the Personal became Political: The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia’, Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies, Vol. 33, No. 95, March 2018.

Angela Woollacott, Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)

• Angela Woollacott et al. (2012), Series editor for History for the Australian Curriculum (Years 7- 10) (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press)
• Angela Woollacott (2011), Race and the Modern Exotic: Three 'Australian' Women on Global Display (Clayton, Vic: Monash University Publishing)
• Deacon, D., Russell, P. & Woollacott, A., (Eds.) (2010) Transnational Lives: Biographies of Global Modernity, 1700-present. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Deacon, D., Russell, P. & Woollacott, A., (Eds.) (2008) Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World. Canberra: ANU E-Press.
• Angela Woollacott (2007) 'Gender and Sexuality', In Australia's Empire (Volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire). Stuart Ward and Deryck Schreuder (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Angela Woollacott (2006) Gender and Empire. Basingstroke, U.K: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Angela Woollacott (2003) 'Creating the White Colonial Woman: Mary Gaunt's Imperial Adventuring and Australian Cultural History', In Cultural History in Australia. Hsn-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds.). Sydney: UNSW Press.
• Angela Woollacott (2001) To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Angela Woollacott (2000) 'The Colonial Flaneuse: Australian Women Negotiating Turn-of-the-Century London', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (25: No.3: 761-87).
• Mrinalini Sinha, Donna Guy and Angela Woollacott (eds.) (1999), Feminisms and Internationalism (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers)
• Angela Woollacott (1997) 'All this is the Empire, I told myself : Australian Women's Voyages Home and the Articulation of Colonial Whiteness', The American Historical Review (102: No.4: 1003-1029).
• Angela Woollacott (1994), On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (Berkeley: University of California Press)
• Miriam Cooke and Angela Woollacott (eds.) (1993), Gendering War Talk (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press)