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Marilyn Lake is professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne.  She was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe in 1994.  Between 2001 and 2002, she held the Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University, and in 2004 she was awarded a highly prestigious five-year ARC Professorial Research Fellowship.

Professor Lake has published 12 books, and numerous articles and book chapters in Australian and international anthologies, on subjects ranging from labour history to land settlement, sexuality and citizenship, gender and nationalism, feminism and the politics of anti-racism.  Her recent books include Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Campaign for Racial Equality (co-authored with Henry Reynolds), Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective (co-edited with Ann Curthoys), and Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism.  Professor Lake is currently President-elect of the Australian Historical Association.