Janet McCalman was born in Richmond, Victoria, the daughter of industrial officer Laurie Brian Janet McCalman and Helene Ulrich.
11 Facts About Janet McCalman
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Janet McCalman's parents were members of the Communist Party of Australia.
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Janet McCalman won a scholarship to Methodist Ladies' College, Kew.
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At school, Janet McCalman was head of the debate team and on the choir and yearbook committees.
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Janet McCalman wrote polemics for the school yearbook in her final year.
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Janet McCalman did not commence a full-time professional academic career until 1993, when she took up a Fellowship at Melbourne University.
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Janet McCalman became Reader in History in 2000 and then Head of the History and Philosophy department in 2001.
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Janet McCalman returned to the University of Melbourne in 1993 on a four-year Australian Research Council Fellowship.
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Janet McCalman was appointed Professor in Public Health in 2003.
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Janet McCalman gave the third Sir John Quick Bendigo Lecture in 1996.
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Janet McCalman received her PhD at ANU in 1976 and married the publisher Al Knight on 15 December 1978, with whom she had two children.