Conway, Jill Ker (1934– )

Australian historian and educator. As a visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she wrote a best-selling memoir, The Road from Coorain (1989) and continued her academic contributions to women's history.

She was born in Hillston, Australia, and raised on a sheep ranch. She became a historian at the University of Sydney, Australia, leaving in 1960 for Harvard. She taught women's history at the University of Toronto 1964–75, becoming Smith College's first woman president 1975–85.