Anna Clark

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. She is the granddaughter of Manning Clark and Dymphna Clark.

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. 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.

Career Clark is based at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney where she teaches Australian history and historiography. Since 2008 she has been an Australian Research Council future fellow.

Selected publications