Angela Woollacott

Angela Woollacott is Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, she took her BA at ANU and an Honours degree in History from Adelaide Uni. She did her postgraduate work in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, receiving the MA in 1984 and the PhD in 1988. Prior to moving to Macquarie in 2004, she was a Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Woollacott is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Women's History, the Journal of British Studies, and the London Journal and is on the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. She has been a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, and the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2002 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU.

Woollacott specializes in women's and postcolonial history, British Empire history, the historical relationship between Britain and Australia, modernity and transnational histories. She is the author of On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (University of California Press, 1994); To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); and Gender and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and has co-edited Gendering War Talk (Princeton University Press, 1993) with Miriam Cooke, and Feminisms and Internationalism (Blackwell, 1999) with Mrinalini Sinha and Donna Guy. Her articles have been published in such journals as The American Historical Review and Signs.