Dale Vivienne Kent FAHA (born 1942) is an Australian historian who specialises in the Italian Renaissance.
Born Dale Vivienne Butler in 1942, Kent was brought up in a Christian Science family in Melbourne, Victoria.
She then moved to England to undertake a PhD at the University of London (1967–1971).
In 1987 she moved to the United States as professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, a position she held until her retirement in 2009.
[4] Kent was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1984.