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Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University

Author of Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, UK). Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award (2021) & Tomlinson Book Award (2020).

Dr McCrae is an historian of war & diplomacy. She works on three main themes: coalition wars, notions of victory, and how individuals think about future war during periods of conflict or great international tension. These areas of research are underpinned by her interests in strategy and resourcing for war.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University

Education

  • 2015 
    University of Oxford , DPhil, History of War