Clare Monagle is a graduate of Monash and the Johns Hopkins Universities. She received her PhD in 2007. Between 2007 and 2014, Clare worked at Monash University. She came to Macquarie at the end of 2014.

Clare is a historian of ideas generally, and theology and theological imaginaries generally. Trained as a medievalist, Clare has published widely in the history of medieval thought and universities. She has also developed expertise in the history of gender, both in the middle ages and in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. 

Clare would like to thank Amelia Tomkins for taking her profile picture.