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Andrew May
Awards H.J. Dyos Prize (1995) [1]
Academic background
Education University of Melbourne (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Andrew May FASSA FRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne. [2]

Education and career

May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne. [2]

He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast. [3] [4] He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005); [5] Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams); [6] Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011); [7] and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas). [8]

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria. [9]

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020. [10]

Honours and recognition

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013, [11] and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018. [12]

Books

As author:

  • Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing ISBN  1875606467
  • Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia ISBN  9781740971324
  • Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books ISBN  1740663136
  • Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press ISBN  0719080355 [13]

As editor:

  • The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History ISBN  0732605105
  • Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies ISBN  9780734039682
  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press ISBN  0521842344 [14]
  • Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press ISBN  9781845193089 [15]

References

  1. ^ "List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2019". Urban History. 47 (4). Cambridge University Press: 763–764. 2020. doi: 10.1017/S0963926820000644. S2CID  233358639. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b Andrew May. University of Melbourne. Accessed June 2022.
  3. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne podcast". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne". Apple. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. ^ "City Songs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Cancer Culture". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Member Profiles". Heritage Council of Victoria. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Academy Fellow Profile: Prof Andrew J. May". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. ^ Reviews of Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism:
  14. ^ Reviews of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:
  15. ^ Reviews of Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Andrew May
Awards H.J. Dyos Prize (1995) [1]
Academic background
Education University of Melbourne (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Andrew May FASSA FRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne. [2]

Education and career

May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne. [2]

He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast. [3] [4] He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005); [5] Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams); [6] Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011); [7] and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas). [8]

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria. [9]

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020. [10]

Honours and recognition

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013, [11] and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018. [12]

Books

As author:

  • Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing ISBN  1875606467
  • Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia ISBN  9781740971324
  • Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books ISBN  1740663136
  • Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press ISBN  0719080355 [13]

As editor:

  • The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History ISBN  0732605105
  • Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies ISBN  9780734039682
  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press ISBN  0521842344 [14]
  • Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press ISBN  9781845193089 [15]

References

  1. ^ "List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2019". Urban History. 47 (4). Cambridge University Press: 763–764. 2020. doi: 10.1017/S0963926820000644. S2CID  233358639. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b Andrew May. University of Melbourne. Accessed June 2022.
  3. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne podcast". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne". Apple. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. ^ "City Songs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Cancer Culture". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Member Profiles". Heritage Council of Victoria. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Academy Fellow Profile: Prof Andrew J. May". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. ^ Reviews of Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism:
  14. ^ Reviews of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:
  15. ^ Reviews of Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange:

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