Diane Kirkby

Diane Kirkby
Born (1948-07-24) 24 July 1948 (age 76)
NationalityAustralian
AwardsFulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1985)

WK Hancock Prize (1992)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2005)

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2011)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales (BA)
University of California, Santa Barbara (MA, PhD)
ThesisAlice Henry: The National Women's Trade Union League of America and Progressive Labor Reform, 1906–1925 (1982)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineWomen's history
Cultural history
Legal history
InstitutionsLa Trobe University
University of Melbourne

Diane Elizabeth Kirkby, FAHA, FASSA (born 24 July 1948) is an Australian historian. She is Professor of Law and Humanities at the University of Technology Sydney and professor emeritus of History at La Trobe University. Since 2016, Kirkby has been the editor of Labour History, the journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.