Clare Alice WrightOAM (born 1969) is an Australian historian,author,broadcaster,and podcaster. As of November 2025[update] she is professor of history and professor of public engagement at La Trobe University. She won the 2014 Stella Prize.
She was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at La Trobe University from 2014 to 2022,from which time she has been a professor of history and the inaugural professor of public history at the university.[5]
As of April 2020[update],Wright writes and presents Shooting the Past,a history radio series and podcast for ABC Radio National.[14] She started co-hosting the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever with Yves Rees in 2019.[15] She is an executive producer of Hey History!,the first Australian history podcast designed for use in schools which was launched in 2024.[16]
Wright created,wrote and presented the ABC television history documentary Utopia Girls[4] and created and co-wrote the ABC television docudrama series The War That Changed Us,[4] which won an ATOM award for best factual program and was nominated for a Logie Award.[5]
Other activities
In 2019,Wright co-founded and co-convenes A Monument of One's Own,a not-for-profit advocacy group which campaigns for statue equality.[17]
In 2016,Wright won the Alice Literary Award,presented by the Society for Women Writers,for "distinguished and long-term contribution to literature by an Australian woman".[19]
We Are the Rebels: The Women and Men Who Made Eureka. Melbourne: Text Publishing. 2016. ISBN9781922182784.
You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World. Melbourne: Text Publishing. 2018. ISBN9781925603934.
Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions — How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy. Melbourne: Text Publishing. 2024. ISBN9781922330864.
Personal life
She lives in Melbourne, Australia, and has three adult children.[21]
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