School of Historical Studies History

Professor Stuart Macintyre

Ernest Scott Professor of History
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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
Research
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Teaching
Supervision


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. Later this year he will take up the chair of Australian Studies at Harvard.

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 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, and currently the president of the Academy of the Social Sciences.

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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.

His current projects include the history of communism in Australia, the role of the social sciences, and the role and status of history. He is an editor of a large-scale international project, The Oxford History of Historical Writing.

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Publications

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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

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Supervision

Stuart supervises postgraduates in most areas of Australian history, comparative history and historiography.

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