Academy Fellow

Professor Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Distinguished Professor of History at the Australian National University. Distinguished Professor Woollacott specialises in Australian history, British Empire history, women's and gender history; settler colonialism; political and cultural history, biography and transnational history. Her current project 'Challenging Colonialism: Australians who helped the nation to embrace human equality' is supported by an ARC Discovery grant 2023-2025.

In 2019 her biography Don Dunstan: The visionary politician who changed Australia was published by Allen & Unwin. In 2020 it was shortlisted for the Magarey Medal for Biography. It was supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. Her book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards - University of Southern Queensland History Prize.

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

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

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, History Australia, 2017 -

Lifetime Achievement Award, The Australian Historical Association (2024)

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 (Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2019).

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

Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott (eds.), How the Personal became Political: The Gender and Sexuality Revolutions in 1970s Australia (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020); first published as a 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)