Professor Dr. Angela Woollacott

Biography

Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Distinguished Professor of History at the Australian National University. She has held previous positions as Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University and Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. Woollacott's research focuses on Australian history, colonialism, postcolonial studies, political history, women's and gender history, and transnational histories. She has contributed significantly to the fields of biography and modernity. Additionally, she has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and is a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Woollacott has served on the editorial boards of various academic journals and has held visiting professorships at institutions including Oberlin College, Dartmouth College, and the University of California, Berkeley. She has supervised numerous graduate research projects and has been actively engaged in research on topics related to decolonization and human rights.

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