Former Chairs
Charles Manning Clark | 9/1/78-1/31/79 | History |
E. Gough Whitlam | 4/14/79-5/14/79 | Government |
Noel Butlin | 5/1/79-2/29/80 | Economics |
Alan F. Davies | 7/1/80-6/30/81 | Government |
Leonie J. Kramer | 7/1/81-1/31/82 | Literature |
Kenneth S. Inglis | 2/1/82-6/30/82 | History |
Geoffrey N. Blainey | 7/1/82-1/31/83 | History |
Robert G. Gregory | 7/1/83-6/30/84 | Economics |
Derek J. Mulvaney | 7/1/84-6/30/85 | Anthropology |
Warner M. Corden | 1/1/86-6/30/86 | Economics |
Patrick McCaughey | 7/1/86-6/30/87 | Fine Arts |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe | 7/1/87-6/30/88 | English |
Graeme J. Davison | 7/1/88-6/30/89 | History |
Jan Senbergs | 7/1/89-6/30/90 | Visual & Environmental Studies |
Lester Hiatt | 7/1/90-6/30/91 | Anthropology |
R.W. Connell | 7/1/91-6/30/92 | Sociology |
No incumbents 1992-93 and 1993-94 | ||
Jillian Roe | 7/1/94-6/30/95 | Women’s Studies |
Rhys Jones | 7/1/95-6/30/96 | Anthropology |
No incumbent 1996-97 | ||
John Rickard | 7/1/97-6/30/98 | History |
Tim Flannery | 7/1/98-6/30/99 | Biology |
Peter Beilharz | 7/1/99-6/30/00 | Sociology |
Barry Conyngham | 7/1/00-6/30/01 | Music |
Marilyn Lake | 7/1/01-6/30/02 | History |
Paul Kelly | 2/1/02-5/31/02 | Kennedy School |
No incumbent 2002-03 | ||
Timothy Rowse | 7/1/03-6/30/04 | History |
Dennis Altman | 1/1/05-6/30/05 | Sociology |
Helen Irving | 7/1/05-6/30/06 | Law School |
James Fox | 7/1/06-6/30/07 | Anthropology |
Stuart Macintyre | 9/1/07-6/30/08 | History |
Iain Davidson | 9/1/08-6/30/09 | Anthropology |
Alison Bashford | 8/1/09-5/31/10 | History of Science |
Nicholas Jose | 8/1/09-5/31/10 | English |
Jeffrey Borland | 8/1/10-12/31/10 | Economics |
Chris McAuliffe | 8/1/11-6/30/12 | Art and Architecture |
Mick Dodson | 8/1/11-12/31/11 | Kennedy School |
No incumbent 2012-13 | ||
Michael Young | 8/1/13-6/30/14 | School of Engineering & Applied Sciences |
Bain Attwood | 8/1/14-6/30/15 | History |
Philip Mead | 8/1/15-6/30/16 | English |
Penelope Russell | 8/1/16-6/30/17 | History |
Paul Gascoigne | 8/1/16-6/30/17 | History of Science |
Ben Saul | 1/1/18-6/30/18; 7/1/19-12/31/19 | Harvard Law School |
Warwick Anderson | 8/1/18-6/30/19 | History of Science |
Philip Goad | 8/1/19-6/30/20 | Art and Architecture |
Katherine Gibson | 1/1/22-12/31/22 | Women, Gender, & Sexuality |
Andrew Schultz | 8/1/22-5/31/23 | Music |
Simon Ville | 8/1/22-5/31/23 | History |
Jennifer Biddle | 1/1/23-12/31/23 | Anthropology |
Katie Holmes | 7/21/23-6/30/24 | History |
Brenda L. Croft | 1/1/24-12/31/24 | History of Art/Art, Film, and Visual Studies Ancestral Futures: Indigenous Cardinal Relations, 4-6 October 2024 |
Megan Davis | 7/1/24-7/31/25 | Harvard Law School |
In The News
Professor Anne Pender from Adelaide University will visit Harvard University’s Division of Arts and Humanities as the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies in the 2027-2028 academic year
As a leading scholar of modern and contemporary Australian literature and theatre, Professor Pender will contribute to the Theatre, Dance and Media programme of study at Harvard University. She will offer courses on comedy and satire in Australian...
Historian Kirsten McKenzie appointed Harvard Visiting Professor
Kirsten McKenzie will take up the prestigious role of Harvard University’s Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for 2026-7. Professor Kirsten McKenzie holds the Chair in Australian History at the University of Sydney’s...
University of Copenhagen Professor awarded distinguished visiting Chair at Harvard
Professor Stuart Ward will visit Harvard University’s History Department as the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies for the 2025-2026 academic year. As a leading historian of 19th and 20th century empire, specializing in the...
