Iain McCalman
Iain McCalman | |
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Born | Nyasaland, Africa | 6 November 1947
Alma mater | Australian National University (BA, MA) Monash University (PhD) |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1992) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1992) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1996) Federation Fellowship (2003) Officer of the Order of Australia (2007) |
Academic career | |
Institutions | University of Sydney Australian National University |
Main interests | British and European social history |
Thesis | A Radical Underworld in London: Thomas Evans, Robert Wedderburn, George Cannon and Their Circle, 1800–35 (1984) |
Doctoral students | Peter Stanley |
Website | http://www.iainmccalman.com/ |
Iain Duncan McCalman AO, FAHA, FASSA (born 6 November 1947) is an Australian historian, and a research professor at the University of Sydney. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European history and has a particular interest in popular culture and low life. He was born in Nyasaland, Africa and was educated in Zimbabwe and Australia.
Career
McCalman was President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2001–2004, and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. In 2007 he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "service to history and to the humanities as a teacher, researcher and author, and through administrative, advocacy and advisory roles in academic and public sector organisations."[1]
Books
McCalman's 2003 book, The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro, Flamingo (also HarperCollins, US and Random House, UK 2003), explores the life of the celebrated and infamous alchemist, magician, freemason, and global identity of the eighteenth century, Alessandro Cagliostro.
Darwin's Armada, published in 2009, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, examines the sea voyages of four naturalists, Darwin himself, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace, and their subsequent roles in the controversy surrounding the publication of On the Origin of Species. It won the 2011 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.[2]
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change was published by Scientific American Books and Penguin (Australia) in 2014.[3][4] The Reef was shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction.[5]
External links
References
- ^ "Honours List Queen's Birthday 2007" (PDF). Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Past Winners of Awards". Australian National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change". Scientific American. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "The Reef". Penguin Random House Australia. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "2015 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
- 1947 births
- Australian historians
- Alessandro Cagliostro
- Australian National University alumni
- Australian National University faculty
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
- Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
- Living people
- Monash University alumni
- Officers of the Order of Australia
- Recipients of grants or fellowships from the Australian Research Council
- University of Sydney faculty
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