Rate My Professor Ann McGrath

McGrath's research spans deep history in global context, spatial history and scale, gender and colonialism, Indigenous relations and intermarriage in Australia and North America, birth, love, marriage, law, justice, museums, museology, public history, and art in historical evidence. Key publications include Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (2015), Born in the Cattle (1987), Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History (editor, 2023), Long History, Deep Time (editor, 2015), and articles such as Deep history and deep listening: Indigenous knowledges and the narration of deep pasts (2021) and People of the Footprints: Rediscovery, Indigenous Historicities and the Science of Deep Time (2022). She has led projects like Rediscovering the Deep Human Past: Global Networks, Future Opportunities. Commencing her career in the Northern Territory, she held positions at Monash University, the University of New South Wales, and the National Museum of Australia. McGrath has presented history through exhibitions, films including A Frontier Conversation (2006) and Message from Mungo (2014), television advising, and consultancies such as the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody history project and expert witness in land claims and legal cases. With over 85 research outputs, her scholarship bridges academic inquiry and public engagement.