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Earlier this week, as you may have read, the University of Melbourne announced it had acquired the archives of a former student, feminist scholar and writer Germaine Greer. The total cost of the archive…
When was the last time the head of a national lobby group led a national initiative in the national interest, way beyond the comfort zone of the majority of their constituency? Where are the national leaders…
Steve Jobs’ “official” biography was always going to be a bestseller, with its promise of a candid examination of the inner workings of the world’s most successful salesman and the company he twice built…
Published biographies, and indeed many histories, are often about the famous, rich or powerful. And most often, they’re about men. I’ve preferred to research and write about so-called “ordinary” men and…
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston
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Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
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Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Professor of English, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Research Associate, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University
