Caroline Daley is a New Zealand social historian, and is a full professor of history at the University of Auckland.
Daley completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a PhD titled Gender in the community: a study of the women and men of the Taradale area, 1886–1930 at Victoria University of Wellington.
[1][2] Daley then joined the faculty of the University of Auckland, rising to full professor in 2022.
She has published on the history of beauty pageants in New Zealand, as well as commented on current events relating to the politicisation of dress.
[5][6][2] Daley has published a number of books, including one from her PhD studies, which won the 2002 J. M. Sherrard Award in New Zealand Local and Regional History.