Anna Clark (Australian historian)
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 granddaughter of Manning Clark and Dymphna Clark.[3][4]
Education
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]
Career
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
- MacIntrye, Stuart; Clark, Anna (2004), The History Wars, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, retrieved 7 July 2025
- Clark, Anna (2006), Teaching the nation : politics and pedagogy in Australian history, Melbourne University Publishing, ISBN 978-0-522-85234-9
- Clark, Anna (2008), History's children : history wars in the classroom, University of NSW Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-863-7
- Clark, Anna (2016), Private lives, public history, Melbourne University Publishing, ISBN 978-0-522-86895-1
- Clark, Anna, ed. (2019), The knowledge solution / Australian history, Melbourne University Press, ISBN 978-0-522-87543-0
- Clark, Anna (2022), Making Australian History, Vintage Books, ISBN 978-1-76089-852-6
- Clark, Anna (2023), The catch: Australia's love affair with fishing (Revised ed.), Vintage Books Australia, ISBN 978-1-76134-220-2
