Marilyn Lake is a leading historian of twentieth century Australia, author of numerous books, chapters and articles and co-author of Creating a Nation, which won the Human Rights Medal for non-fiction in 1994.
She is Australia's leading authority on the political history of women, having published numerous accounts of women's activism and authoring the first history of Australian feminism, Getting Equal: The History of Feminism in Australia.
A regular media commentator on gender, politics and history, Marilyn Lake's work on citizenship, nationalism and gender has been widely acclaimed internationally and included in several anthologies published in the United States and Britain.
She currently holds the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University.
