WK Hancock Prize (1992) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2005) 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.
Diane Elizabeth Kirkby was born in Walgett, New South Wales,[1] in 1948.
[2] Her education began by correspondence course and at age six she was sent to board in Tamworth at the Church of England Girls School and later to Presbyterian Ladies' College, Pymble.
Kirkby was elected fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2005[4] and fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2011.