Patricia Grimshaw

Patricia Ann Grimshaw, AO, FASSA, FAHA (born 16 December 1938) is a retired Australian academic who specialised in women's and Indigenous peoples' history.

[2] She completed her PhD in 1987, and two years later published her thesis as Paths of Duty: American Missionary Wives in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii.

[5] From 1995 to 2000, Grimshaw was president of the International Federation for Research in Women's History, an organisation that she had co-founded.

[9] In 2017 Grimshaw was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the social sciences and to the humanities through researching, documenting and preserving Australian history, and the roles of women in society.

[12] It was launched by the university in March 2008 "to honour her contribution as a mentor of postgraduate students and younger colleagues".