Ann McGrath
{{short description|Australian historian}}
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Ann Margaret McGrath {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FASSA|FAHA}} is an Australian historian and academic. {{as of|2023}} she is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the Australian National University.
Early life and education
McGrath graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland in 1976.{{cn|date=November 2023}}
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".{{Cite thesis |last1=McGrath |first1=Ann |title=We grew up the stations : Europeans, Aborigines and cattle in the Northern Territory |publication-date=1983 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/18065154 |access-date=22 September 2024 |publisher=1983 |author2=La Trobe University. Theses. History Dept}}
Career
McGrath 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,{{cite web | title=About | website=School of History | date=25 February 2010 | url=https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/acih/about | access-date=24 November 2023}} a position she continues to hold {{as of|lc=y|2023}}.
{{as of|2023}} 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.{{Cite web|date=5 July 2016|title=Professor Ann McGrath| url=https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/acih/people/professor-ann-mcgrath|access-date=24 November 2023 |website=ANU School of History|language=en-AU}}
Recognition
She 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.[http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/hr_awards/1994.html 1994 Human Rights Medal and Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607005421/http://www.humanrights.gov.au///about/hr_awards/1994.html|date=7 June 2011}} Australian Human Rights Commission accessed 19 August 2011
McGrath was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2004.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Ann McGrath AM, FASSA, FAHA|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9NGAAY|access-date=2020-10-31|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-US}}
She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2007{{cite web|title=Professor Ann Margaret McGrath|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1135013|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet}} 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".{{cite web|title=Professor Ann Margaret McGrath OAM|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1769819|access-date=2020-11-01|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet}}
In 2016 her book, Illicit Love, won the General History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards.{{Cite web|date=2016-09-05|title=NSW Premier's History Awards 2016 winners announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/09/05/68252/nsw-premiers-history-awards-2016-winners-announced/|access-date=2020-10-31|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}} It was shortlisted for the 2016 ACT Book of the Year.{{Cite web|date=2016-08-30|title=ACT Book of the Year shortlist announced|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2016/08/30/65101/act-book-of-the-year-shortlist-announced/|access-date=2020-10-31|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}
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.{{Cite web |date=2017-06-05 |title=ANU wins three Australian Laureate Fellowships|url=https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-wins-three-australian-laureate-fellowships|access-date=2020-10-31|website=Australian National University|language=en}} Also in 2017, she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Ann McGrath |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=966 |access-date=2024-08-03 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}
McGrath was elected an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.{{Cite web |title=New Members |url=https://www.amacad.org/new-members-2023 |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}} In 2024 she was appointed to the Council of the National Museum of Australia.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-08 |title=Appointments To National Museum Of Australia Council |url=https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/appointments-to-national-museum-of-australia-council/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=The National Tribune |language=en-AU}}
Selected works
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- {{Citation|author1=McGrath, Ann|title=Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in cattle country|date=January 1987|publication-date=1987|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=978-0-04-150084-4}}
- {{Cite book|last1=Grimshaw|first1=Patricia|title=Creating a Nation|last2=Lake|first2=Marilyn|last3=McGrath|first3=Ann|last4=Quartly|first4=Marian|publisher=McPhee Gribble Publishers|year=1994|isbn=0-86914-095-7|location=Ringwood, Vic., Australia}}
- {{Citation|author1=McGrath|first=Ann|title=Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown|date=October 1995|publication-date=1995|publisher=Allen & Unwin|isbn=978-1-74176-490-1}}
- {{Citation|last1=McGrath|first1=Ann|title=Aboriginal Workers|publication-date=1995|publisher=Australian Society for the Study of Labour History|isbn=978-0-909944-04-9|last2=Saunders|first2=Kay|authorlink2=Kay Saunders |last3=Huggins|first3=Jackie |author3-link =Jackie Huggins|year=1995}} ([https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/history-of-indigenous-work-sheds-light-on-australian-slavery Reissued in 2020].{{cite web | title=Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History | website=Liverpool University Press | date=30 November 2020 | url=http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54770/ | access-date=6 January 2022 | archive-date=23 January 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123010045/https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/54770/ | url-status=dead }})
- {{Cite book|last1=Curthoys|first1=Ann|title=Writing histories: Imagination and narration|last2=McGrath|first2=Ann|publisher=School of Historical Studies, Monash University|year=2000|isbn=0-7326-1768-5|location=Clayton, Vic.}}
- {{Citation|last1=Curthoys|first1=Ann|title=How to write history that people want to read|publication-date=2009|publisher=University of New South Wales Press|isbn=978-1-74223-086-3|last2=McGrath|first2=Ann|year=2009}}
- {{Citation|author1=McGrath|first=Ann|title=Illicit love: Interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia|date=December 2015|publication-date=2015|publisher=Lincoln University of Nebraska Press|isbn=978-0-8032-8541-5}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/mcgrath-a}}
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