# Former Chairs ![widener_library_harvard_university_cambridge_ma](/sites/g/files/omnuum10876/files/harvaus/files/widener_library_harvard_university_cambridge_ma_0.jpg) SortCharles 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](https://sites.harvard.edu/ancestral-futures-symposium/) 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 ](/news/2026/05/professor-anne-pender-adelaide-university-will-visit-harvard-universitys-division-arts) May 05, 2026 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... ![Anne Pender](/sites/g/files/omnuum10876/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Professor-Anne-Pender-750-x-750_0.jpg?itok=S5ymb5le) [### Historian Kirsten McKenzie appointed Harvard Visiting Professor ](/news/2025/05/historian-kirsten-mckenzie-appointed-harvard-visiting-professor) May 13, 2025 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... ![Professor Kirsten McKenzie](/sites/g/files/omnuum10876/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-06/Professor%20Kirsten%20McKenzie.jpeg?h=a879541e&itok=NK2et0ht) [### University of Copenhagen Professor awarded distinguished visiting Chair at Harvard ](/news/saxo-professor-awarded-distinguished-visiting-chair-harvard) June 04, 2024 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... ![Stuart Ward](/sites/g/files/omnuum10876/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/stuart_ward.jpg?h=3d74fb01&itok=_9tWqXq2)