Melanie Claire Nolan FASSA (born 1960) is a historian and university academic from New Zealand, specialising in labour and gender history.
[2] She then won a further scholarship to study at the Australian National University, which she attended from 1986 to 1989 for her doctoral degree.
Her thesis was a case study of women Blue-collar workers in Victoria, Australia, from 1880 to 1939.
She also worked in the New Zealand public service, including the State Services Commission (1984–1986), the Treaty Issues Unit of the Crown Law Office (1989), and the Historical Branch of the Department of Internal Affairs (1990–1992).
[3] In 2008 Nolan was appointed general editor of the ADB[4] as well as Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography (NCB), positions she still holds as of August 2024[update].