For the past seven years, Ann McGrath has led a Laureate Program based at the Australian National University exploring deep history, which developed the website Marking Country with Indigenous knowledge holders. Her publications include 'Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia' which won the NSW Premiers History Prize and 'Born in the Cattle', awarded the inaugural Hancock Prize.
Along with Laura Rademaker and Jakelin Troy, she co-edited ‘Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History’ (New South). Ann has also worked on film, producing A Frontier Conversation (Wonderland Productions, Ronin distributors, 2006) and with Andrew Pike, she co-directed and produced the prize-winning Message from Mungo (Ronin, 2014) and most recently, Japarta (Ronin 2025).
Her work has been recognized by the Human Rights Award for non-fiction, the John Barrett Prize, and the Archibald Hannah Junior Fellowship at the Beinecke Library, Yale. She gained Memberships of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham, of the School of Social Sciences and the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and was awarded two Rockefeller Foundation Scholarly Residencies at Bellagio.
She is interested in Australian, American and global histories and is committed to collaborative history and public outreach, now serving the Council of the National Museum of Australia.
