Ann Margaret McGrath AM FASSA FAHA is an Australian historian and academic. As of 2023[update] she is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the Australian National University.
Ann McGrath | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Queensland BA (Hons) 1976 |
| Alma mater | La Trobe University PhD 1984 |
| Thesis | We grew up the stations: Europeans, aborigines and cattle in the Northern Territory |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Australian National University |
Early life and education
editMcGrath graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland in 1976.[citation needed]
In 1984 she was awarded a PhD from La Trobe University for her thesis "We grew up the stations: Europeans, aborigines and cattle in the Northern Territory".[1]
Career
editMcGrath won the John Barrett Award for an article in 1994. McGrath was founding director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, established within the ANU School of History on 28 March 2003. She resigned this position in 2019 to create the Research Centre for Deep History within the School,[2] a position she continues to hold as of 2023[update].
As of 2023[update] she is the WK Hancock Chair of History at ANU. She is also director of the Research Centre for Deep History, and was Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow 2017–2022.[3]
Recognition
editShe was the inaugural winner of the W.K. Hancock prize of the Australian Historical Association for her first book, Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country, in 1988. In 1994, she was awarded the Human Rights Non-Fiction Award for Creating a Nation jointly with co-authors Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake and Marian Quartly.[4]
McGrath was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2004.[5]
She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2007[6] and appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2017 for "significant service to the social sciences as an academic and researcher in the field of Indigenous history, and to tertiary education".[7]
In 2016 her book, Illicit Love, won the General History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards.[8] It was shortlisted for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year.[9]
She was awarded the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship for her project on the history of Australia, combining Indigenous stories with scientific data in 2017.[10] Also in 2017, she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.[11]
McGrath was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.[12] In 2024 she was appointed to the Council of the National Museum of Australia.[13]
Selected works
edit- McGrath, Ann (January 1987), Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in cattle country, Allen & Unwin (published 1987), ISBN 978-0-04-150084-4
- Grimshaw, Patricia; Lake, Marilyn; McGrath, Ann; Quartly, Marian (1994). Creating a Nation. Ringwood, Vic., Australia: McPhee Gribble Publishers. ISBN 0-86914-095-7.
- McGrath, Ann (October 1995), Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown, Allen & Unwin (published 1995), ISBN 978-1-74176-490-1
- McGrath, Ann; Saunders, Kay; Huggins, Jackie (1995), Aboriginal Workers, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, ISBN 978-0-909944-04-9 (Reissued in 2020.[14])
- Curthoys, Ann; McGrath, Ann (2000). Writing histories: Imagination and narration. Clayton, Vic.: School of Historical Studies, Monash University. ISBN 0-7326-1768-5.
- Curthoys, Ann; McGrath, Ann (2009), How to write history that people want to read, University of New South Wales Press, ISBN 978-1-74223-086-3
- McGrath, Ann (December 2015), Illicit love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia, Lincoln University of Nebraska Press (published 2015), ISBN 978-0-8032-8541-5
References
edit- ^ McGrath, Ann; La Trobe University. Theses. History Dept (1983). We grew up the stations : Europeans, Aborigines and cattle in the Northern Territory (Thesis). 1983. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
- ^ "About". School of History. 25 February 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ "Professor Ann McGrath". ANU School of History. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ 1994 Human Rights Medal and Awards Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Australian Human Rights Commission accessed 19 August 2011
- ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Ann McGrath AM, FASSA, FAHA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "Professor Ann Margaret McGrath". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "Professor Ann Margaret McGrath OAM". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ "NSW Premier's History Awards 2016 winners announced". Books+Publishing. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "ACT Book of the Year shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "ANU wins three Australian Laureate Fellowships". Australian National University. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
- ^ "Fellow Profile: Ann McGrath". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
- ^ "New Members". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- ^ "Appointments To National Museum Of Australia Council". The National Tribune. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
- ^ "Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History". Liverpool University Press. 30 November 2020. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2022.