Professor Stuart Macintyre
Ernest Scott Professor of History
- Email:
- s.macintyre@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 531 East
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
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Biography
Stuart Macintyre was educated in Melbourne and undertook doctoral studies in history at Cambridge. He has held appointments at Cambridge, Murdoch, the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.
Since 1990 he has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History and in 2002 was made a Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1999 to 2006 and in 2007-8 was visiting professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.
From 1996 to 1998 he was president of the Australian Historical Association and from 2002 to 2004 he chaired the Humanities and Creative Arts panel of the Australian Research Council. He is currently a member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Research Council, and from 2007 to 2009 was President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. From 2009 he has been a professorial research fellow of the Australian Research Council.
He served terms on the councils of the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria. Stuart Macintyre is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. From 2009 he has been assisting the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority in the preparation of a national curriculum for history in Australian schools.
Research
Stuart’s research interests are principally in Australian history. He has written extensively on aspects of Australian labour history, political history and intellectual history. Among his publications are A Concise History of Australia (the current edition has been translated into several foreign-language editions) and volume four of The Oxford History of Australia.
He has recently completed a history of the social sciences in Australia, The Poor Relation, which will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2010.
His current projects include the history of communism in Australia and a study of post-war reconstruction.
Publications
- Stuart Macintyre, The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998. (Awarded Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, 1998) Paperback edition, 1999
- Stuart Macintyre, Concise History of Australia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Reprinted, 2000, 2002. Second edition, 2004. Chinese edition 2007, Italian edition, 2007, Japanese edition, 2008
- Stuart Macintyre (with R.J.W. Selleck), A Short History of the University of Melbourne, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003
- Stuart Macintyre (with Anna Clark), The History Wars, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003. (Awarded Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Best Work Advancing Public Debate, New South Wales Premier’s History Award) Reprinted, 2003. Revised, edition 2004
- Stuart Macintyre (edited with Graeme Davison and John Hirst), The Oxford Companion to Australia History, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. Reprinted 1998, 1999. Revised edition 2001
- Stuart Macintyre (edited with Peter McPhee), Max Crawford’s School of History, Melbourne: History Department, University of Melbourne, 2000
- Stuart Macintyre (edited with Helen Irving), J.A. La Nauze. No Ordinary Act: Essays on Federation and the Constitution, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001
- Stuart Macintyre, (edited with John Faulkner), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 2001
- Stuart Macintyre (edited with Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton and Tom Stannage), The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003
- Stuart Macintyre (Ed.) The Historian’s Conscience: Australian historians on the ethics of history, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2004
- Stuart Macintyre and Joe Isaac (Eds.), The New Province for Law and Order: 100 Years of Australian Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
- Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer (Eds.), What If? Australian history as it might have been, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006; reprinted 2006
- Stuart Macintyre and Fay Anderson (Eds.), The Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne: RMIT Publishing, 2006
- Stuart Macintyre, Kate Darian-Smith and Patricia Grimshaw (Eds.), Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007
Teaching
Stuart’s teaching ranges across Australia and international history. He is on leave until 2009. His most recent teaching subjects were:
131-216 Scotland, the Stateless Nation, 1707-1999
131-240 Controversies in Australian History
Supervision
Stuart supervises postgraduates in most areas of Australian history, comparative history and historiography.