Rate My Professor Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys has researched, taught, and published extensively on many aspects of Australian history, including race, class, and gender, as well as on feminism, cultural studies, and historical theory. Key publications include Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers (2002), For and Against Feminism: A Personal Journey into Feminist Theory and History (1988), Is History Fiction? co-authored with John Docker (2005, revised edition 2010), and How to Write History that People Want to Read co-authored with Ann McGrath (2009, revised edition 2011). Other notable works encompass Quakers and Gender: Studies in Gender and Society (1991) and contributions to edited volumes on transnational history and Indigenous history. She has delivered public lectures, such as the 2018 Allan Martin Lecture at the Australian National University. Curthoys received the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours for significant service to tertiary education, social history, and the Freedom Ride. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA). The Australian Historical Association established the Ann Curthoys Prize in her honour for early career researchers in Australian history, Indigenous history, or theory and methodology. Her scholarship has profoundly influenced understandings of Australian colonial history and historiographical debates.