Alison Mackinnon

{{Short description|Australian historian}}

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Alison Mackinnon {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FASSA}} (born 1942{{Cite web|title=Trove: Alison Mackinnon|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/14039182|access-date=2021-03-07|website=trove.nla.gov.au}} Shepparton Victoria) as Alison Gay Madin (Maiden){{Cite web |last= |date=2014 |title=Mackinnon, Alison Gay |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0662b.htm |access-date=2021-03-08 |website=The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia |publisher=The University of Melbourne |language=en-gb}} is a social historian who has contributed to both Australian and women's history. Particular areas of expertise are the history of education, women's social and demographic history, the history and politics of population change, population ageing, and work and responsibility changes wrought by globalisation.

Mackinnon graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA and DipEd before moving to the University of Adelaide where she completed a MA and PhD.

Mackinnon was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Science in Australia in 2005.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Emeritus Professor Alison Mackinnon FASSA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9MzAAI|access-date=2021-05-18|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-AU}} In the 2009 Australia Day Honours she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to education, particularly in the fields of social research and development, as an academic and author, and to the community through roles with history organisations".{{Cite web|title=Emeritus Professor Alison Gay Mackinnon|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1139747|access-date=2021-05-19|website=It's An Honour}}