Margaret Allen

Margaret Allen (born 1947) is an Australian historian and women's studies researcher. She is professor emerita at the University of Adelaide.

Early life and education Margaret Ellen Allen was born in 1947 in Adelaide, the fourth child of George William Allen and Marjorie Ada Allen (née Knight). Her mother died suddenly in August 1948 and her father later married Helen Ladbury Allen (née Baylis).

Allen was a pupil at Walkerville Primary School and then went to Adelaide Girls High School from 1960 to 1964. She won a scholarship to study at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1969 with a BA (hons) for her thesis on The Jews in the French Revolution.

On her retirement in 2010 she was appointed professor emerita of the University of Adelaide.

Allen is a member of the Australian Historical Association and the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association. From 2005 to 2010 she was on the board of the International Federation for Research on Women's History and editor of its newsletter. She was a board member of the History Trust of South Australia from 2001 to 2007 and again from 2013 to 2016. She has been a member of the South Australian working party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography since 2005.

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Personal In 1973 Allen married George Lewkowicz. They have two daughters.