Ann Curthoys

Ann Curthoys (at left) interviewing residents at Moree Aborigial Station during the Freedom Ride in February 1965

Ann Curthoys is an Australian historian and academic.

She was born in Sydney in 1945, and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. In 1965 Curthoys took part in the Freedom Ride which highlighted racism against Aboriginal Australians in several towns. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in 1973 and subsequently worked as a tutor and research assistant.^[1]

In 1976 Curthoys established the Women's Studies Program at the Australian National University (ANU) after becoming active in the women's movement in 1970. She taught at the University of Technology, Sydney from 1978 to 1995, when she returned to the ANU to take up the Chair of History. Curthoys was the Group of Eight Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Georgetown University in 2003 and 2004. In addition to her teaching work, Curthoys has extensively published on Australian history and historiography. In 1997 she was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She was also elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.^[1] Curthoys retired in 2013, but remains active as a researcher, writer and supervisor of graduate students at the University of Sydney.^[2]

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