Marilyn Lake

Professor Marilyn Lake was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University in 1994; she has also held Visiting Fellowships at ANU, the University of Western Australia, the University of Sydney and Stockholm University. In 2001 she was appointed to the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University. The subjects of her publications have ranged widely, from citizenship and nationalism to feminism and sexuality and many articles have subsequently been re-printed in international anthologies. Between 2004 and 2008, she has held an ARC Professorial Fellowship to undertake a large study of campaigns for racial equality and the transnational politics of whiteness. Her most recent books include the prize-winning biography, FAITH Faith Bandler Gentle Activist( 2002), Memory, Monuments and Museums ( 2006), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, co-edited with Ann Curthoys ( 2006) and most recently, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White men's Countries and the International Campaign for Racial Equality, co-authored with Henry Reynolds and co-published by Cambridge University press (UK) and MUP (Australia). She was elected as a Fellow to the Academy of Humanities (of which she is currently a Council member) in 1996 and to the Academy of Social Sciences in 1999.