Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Distinguished Professor of History, and has been at the Australian National University since 2009. From 2004 to 2009 she was Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University in Sydney. Prior to that she was a Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her areas of research, research supervision and teaching include Australian history; British Empire, colonialism, postcolonial and decolonization history; political history; women's and gender history; biography; modernity and transnational histories.

Professor Woollacott is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. She currently serves on the editorial boards of three journals. She has been a visiting professor at Oberlin College; a visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, the University of Melbourne, the University of Adelaide, the University of California, Berkeley, Flinders University and the University of Oxford; and in 2002 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at ANU.

BA (ANU); BA (Hons) Adelaide; MA, California, Santa Barbara; PhD, California, Santa Barbara

Australian history; decolonisation and postcolonial history; biography; political history and human rights; women's and gender history; transnational history; settler colonialism.