Professor Marilyn Lee Lake AO awarded the British Academy’s Fellowship

The British Academy exterior, Carlton House Terrace — Image credit: The British Academy

Professor Marilyn Lee Lake AO, FAHA, FASSA, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Arts has been elected as a Fellow for the British Academy in recognition of her contribution to the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Lake is one of Australia’s most distinguished and esteemed historians. Her areas of research include settler colonialism and the British empire, campaigns for racial and gender equality, labour history and the impact of war on the home front.

Professor Lake is author of several influential works such as Drawing the Global Colour Line (2008) with Henry Reynolds, and Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (2019).

In 2018 Professor Lake was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in recognition of her distinguished service to higher education and historical organisations. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences.