Ann Margaret McGrath is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the

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. She is Director of the Research Centre for Deep History and Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow 2017–22. In 1994, she was awarded the Human Rights Non-Fiction Award for ''Creating a Nation'' jointly with co-authors

Patricia Grimshaw Patricia Ann Grimshaw, (born 16 December 1938) is a retired Australian academic who specialised in women's and Indigenous peoples' history. One of her most influential works is ''Women's Suffrage in New Zealand'', first published in 1972, which ...

Marilyn Lake Marilyn Lee Lake, (born 5 January 1949) is an Australian historian known for her work on the effects of the military and war on Australian civil society, the political history of Australian women"Book – A triumph of gentle Faith." Gold Coast ...

and Marian Quartly. McGrath was elected Fellow of the

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in 2004. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2007 and appointed a

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in 2017 for "significant service to the social sciences as an academic and researcher in the field of Indigenous history, and to tertiary education". 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. Also in 2017, she was elected Fellow of the

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. In 2016 her book, ''Illicit Love'', won the General History Prize at the

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. It was shortlisted for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year. McGrath was elected an International Honorary Member of the

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in 2023.

Selected works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McGrath Ann Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Queensland alumni La Trobe University alumni Academic staff of the Australian National University Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Members of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian women historians