John E.S. McCulloch OAM is a professional historian and feminist. He taught at the University of Queensland from 1972 to 1982, at Griffith University from 1996 to 1997, Queensland University of Technology from 1996 to 2006. His PhD thesis 'Elizabeth Brentnall, 1830-1909: Educator, Feminist, Suffragist and Philanthropist' (University of Queensland, 2010), documented the life of the first president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Queensland. This collection of oral history interviews conducted with Queensland state and federal women parliamentarians were used in his publication 'From Suffragists to Legislators: 100 Years of Women's Suffrage in Queensland' (Central Queensland University Press, 2005).