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Anna Clark (Australian historian)

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Anna Clark is an Australian historian, professor and public commentator who is an internationally recognised scholar in Australian history with a particular focus on the history of education and the role of history in everyday life.[1][2]

She is the grand-daughter of Manning Clark.[3][4]

Career

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Clark is based at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches Australian history and historiography.[2]

Since 2008 she has been an Australian Research Council future fellow.[2]

Selected publications

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  • The catch: Australia's love affair with fishing (2023), author.[5]
  • Making Australian History (2022), author.[6]
  • The knowledge solution. Australian history (2019), editor and contributor.[7]
  • Private lives, public history (2016), author.[8]
  • History's children : history wars in the classroom (2008), author.[9]
  • Teaching the nation: politics and pedagogy in Australian history (2006); author.[10]
  • History Wars (2004), co-author with Stuart Macintyre.[11]

Education

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Clark completed her bachelor of arts, with honours, at the University of Sydney before completing a graduate certificate in higher education at Monash University.[2]

She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and her 2006 book Teaching the nation is based from her thesis of the same name.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Anna Clark". www.penguin.com.au. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Anna Clark (she/her) professor". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  3. ^ Connor, Michael (18 May 2022). "Anna Clark: Daughter of the History Wars - Quadrant". Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  4. ^ "Making Australian History". Professional Historians Australia. 24 October 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
  5. ^ Clark, Anna (2023), The catch: Australia's love affair with fishing (Revised ed.), Vintage Books Australia, ISBN 978-1-76134-220-2
  6. ^ Clark, Anna (2022), Making Australian History, Vintage Books, ISBN 978-1-76089-852-6
  7. ^ Clark, Anna (Editor) (2019), The knowledge solution / Australian history, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-87543-0 {{citation}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  8. ^ Clark, Anna (2016), Private lives, public history, Melbourne University Publishing, ISBN 978-0-522-86895-1
  9. ^ Clark, Anna (2008), History's children : history wars in the classroom, University of NSW Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-863-7
  10. ^ Clark, Anna (2006), Teaching the nation : politics and pedagogy in Australian history, Melbourne University Publishing, ISBN 978-0-522-85234-9
  11. ^ MacIntrye, Stuart; Clark, Anna (2004), The History Wars, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, retrieved 7 July 2025