Angela Woollacott

Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Woollacott

  • Post Nominals: FAHA, FASSA, FRHistS
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2014
  • Section(s): History

Biography

Angela Woollacott is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the School of History at the Australian National University. She has published widely in Australian history; gender, feminist and women’s history; settler colonialism, empires and postcolonialism; political history and biography; and transnational history. She currently holds an ARC Discovery grant for the project ‘Challenging colonialism: Australians who helped the nation to embrace human equality’.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.